What does study mean

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study

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

study

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a close study

▪ Their research involved a close study of two communities.

a comprehensive study/survey/assessment

▪ The report includes a comprehensive study of the company’s training needs.

a qualitative analysis/study

▪ a qualitative study of educational services/qualitative research

a study bedroom (=for students, with a bed and a desk)

▪ In my first year at university I had a really tiny study bedroom.

academic study

▪ After academic study, you have to gain practical experience.

business studies (=a course of study about business)

▪ She did business studies at college.

business studies

careful analysis/examination/study etc

▪ careful analysis of the data

carry out a study

▪ He has carried out various studies into violent behaviour.

carry out a study

▪ He has carried out various studies into violent behaviour.

case study

conduct a study/review

▪ Scientists conducted a study of the area affected by the nuclear disaster.

consider/examine/study the evidence

▪ Having considered all the evidence, the court found him not guilty.

definitive study/work/guide etc

▪ the definitive study of Victorian railway stations

Director of Studies

evidence/results/data/studies etc suggest(s) that

▪ The evidence suggests that single fathers are more likely to work than single mothers.

examine/consider/study sth in detail

▪ He asked his lawyer to examine the contract in detail.

experimental work/studies

▪ experimental studies on birds and animals

film studies

▪ She’s studying for a diploma in film studies.

full-scale study/review etc

▪ The government will conduct a full-scale inquiry into the crash.

in-depth study/research/analysis etc

▪ an in-depth study of patients’ needs

laboratory tests/experiments/studies

liberal studies

longitudinal study/survey/research etc

▪ a longitudinal study of unemployed workers

media studies

object of study

▪ an object of study

perform an experiment/study etc

▪ Part of the Chemistry exam involves performing an experiment.

read/study the menu

▪ Sandy read the menu, but didn’t see anything he wanted to eat.

social studies

studies/evidence/research etc shows

▪ Several studies have shown that aggressive toys lead to bad behaviour.

study a map (=look carefully at a map)

▪ They studied the map before setting out.

study for an exam (also revise for an exam British English)

▪ She has to study for her exams.

study for an examination (also revise for an examination British English)

▪ I have been studying all week for the examination.

study hall

study leaveBritish English (= time that you are allowed away from work because you are taking a course)

▪ The company offers study leave for staff development.

study (sth) at a university

▪ She studied law at Edinburgh University.

study/examine the implications

▪ He has studied the implications of recent technical innovations.

superficial examination/study etc

▪ Even a superficial inspection revealed serious flaws.

time and motion study

training/study aids

▪ Receive free study aids when you enrol, including a copy of The IDM Marketing Guide worth £95.

undertake research/a study

▪ Students may undertake full-time supervised research leading to the award of a Ph.D.

women's studies

work/study etc full-time

▪ She works full-time and has two kids.

▪ The success of the series enabled her to concentrate full-time on writing.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

careful

▪ The foundation of the Camden Society in 1839 had promoted much more careful study of medieval architecture.

▪ He approached detective fiction as a craft that could be learned through careful, methodical study.

▪ But careful studies in the 1960S revealed that none of these explanations will do.

▪ It is vital to his sense of responsible obsession that everything in his room warrants careful study.

▪ From this flows a lack of expectation. Careful teaching and study of the scriptures is a good battering-ram for this barrier.

▪ Table 4-7 provides a checklist of the determinants of supply: the accompanying illustrations deserve careful study.

▪ There was so much communication and interchange, and careful study and research....

▪ If the existence of an attention deficit is confirmed through careful study, appropriate help must be provided for the child.

comparative

▪ Purely descriptive studies serve as the raw data for those comparative studies that aspire to higher levels of explanation.

▪ Other recent examples of comparative studies are those of Lowe - independent study modules and lecture tours, in 1981.

▪ Space and resources preclude an exhaustive or even an extensive comparative study in this work.

▪ The comparative study of kinship terminologies is one of the longest established traditions in academic anthropology.

▪ The final section is a comparative study of these algorithms and the methods they incorporate.

▪ There are no valid randomised comparative studies of surveillance versus treatment.

▪ The first is a comparative study of wool textile organisations, investigating the relationship between career development, innovation and company performance.

▪ Some comparative studies have already been made of environmental impact and safety although much more needs to be done.

comprehensive

▪ It contained a comprehensive study of the causes, prevention and treatment of crime.

▪ But there never has been such a comprehensive study to test the theory.

▪ The main priorities are: A comprehensive transportation study with a view to reducing the level of dependence on private cars.

▪ One of the more comprehensive recent studies, supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, is worth mentioning.

▪ But a more comprehensive study by doctors from Oxford has produced no evidence to support this.

▪ In a comprehensive study, the Institute for International Economics answered yes to these questions.

▪ One of the most comprehensive studies of the results of randomization trials that has been reported was due to Kaimann.

▪ A comprehensive study done a few years ago focused on what particular quality was shared by winning race car drivers.

detailed

▪ One such was that further detailed studies of the possible effects should be undertaken over a 12-month period.

▪ Shafir made a detailed study of comprehension levels by the supposedly literate.

▪ It is the necessary end-point of the detailed study of television programmes.

▪ Density contrasts at intermediate depths would be expected to occur at footwall ramps, suggesting that detailed gravity studies might be rewarding.

▪ Pearce reached his conclusions after conducting a review of detailed studies into the impact of environmental taxes.

▪ A detailed case study approach is also called for by the nature of the explanatory variables that will be proposed.

▪ Laski himself led the way not only in general theoretical orientation but also in the detailed study.

▪ A detailed study of the gestation and birth of a new specialism reveals a different story.

early

▪ Importantly, this provided him with the working-class raw material for his early empirical studies of language.

▪ These results are confirmed by earlier studies.

▪ Even the earliest study of its effectiveness stressed the view that it should improve the degree of accountability.

▪ Among the earliest studies of simulated stability was a paper published in 1970 by Gardner and Ashby.

▪ Among sixty drawings are many early studies including shelter and coalmine subjects.

▪ The proposal is still in the early study stage and must undergo extensive environmental review, Glidden said.

▪ There is concern from earlier studies that the disorder shortens life.

▪ The material collected and used was, as in the earlier study, the record of parish discipline by the established church.

experimental

▪ The experimental study of heredity led Bateson to breeding studies and soon to the newly rediscovered laws of Mendelian heredity.

▪ The use of light isotopes in a fusion reactor has been under experimental study since the 1950s.

▪ Although many experimental studies have been carried out since then, this remains the clearest and best-known work.

▪ Moreover, one experimental study showed increased tumour formation with dietary calcium.

▪ If the materials are properly prepared and used, the procedure can have all the advantages of an experimental study.

▪ Using both experimental studies and computer simulation, existing theories of face recognition and learning in general will be evaluated and developed.

▪ An experimental study from Plymouth reported a 23% reduction in general practitioner referrals after local guidelines were distributed.

▪ An experimental study of children's behaviour outlines a possible answer.

further

▪ The role of alternate day corticosteroids among children who experience chronic or frequently relapsing symptoms, however, deserves further study.

▪ The council has delayed implementation pending further study of its effects.

▪ The educational impact and subsequent effect on patient management will require further study.

▪ However, further studies are required to be able to reach significant conclusions on the economics of such an attempt.

▪ Yet the potential for further study and interpretation is enormous.

▪ The following principles are not elaborated in detail, they require considerable further discussion and study.

▪ This was eventually referred to the Standing Committee for further study and recommendations.

▪ It is suspected that the issue of lexical acquisition will form the basis of further studies.

historical

▪ However, such historical studies as do address this question indicate that all members do not benefit equally.

▪ Why do there need to be so many historical studies?

▪ Finally, is the Liberal confidence in its historical study justified?

▪ Recent historical studies stress the importance of scientific disciplines and research programmes.

▪ The historical case studies carried out by Lakatos and his followers certainly lend some support to that latter claim.

▪ There is no doubt that Angelica Kauffman's work offers a large and varied body of materials for feminist cultural and historical study.

▪ From this point of view, the resulting surveys are sometimes like historical studies.

independent

▪ It will make provision for mixed-ability groups much easier to organise, and encourage independent study.

▪ Two independent studies since the 1968 election confirm the trend.

▪ Councillors will discuss the possibility of funding an independent study into the mine's viability.

▪ In the spring semester Gordon taught two seminars and took on more than a dozen students for independent study projects.

▪ The course manual can be used for independent study.

▪ None the less, anthropology soon became an independent academic study, first by amateurs, and later by university researchers.

▪ Other recent examples of comparative studies are those of Lowe - independent study modules and lecture tours, in 1981.

▪ The Bellcrest File is designed for independent study.

literary

▪ Jakobson's essay thus constitutes as strong a claim as can possibly be made for the relevance of linguistics to literary study.

▪ It was only later that the aesthetic dimension of literary study became emphasized, with an accompanying concentration on the fictional genres.

▪ Non-scientific discourses, like law and literary studies, address subjectivity by deploying their own concepts of the subject.

▪ Herbert would seem to be far more obviously the choice for literary study, and the institutional canon confirms this.

▪ In practice, it weakens the claim of literary study to be a coherent and self-sufficient discipline.

▪ An adversarial stance appeared in literary study.

▪ From the outset, some scholars have been highly suspicious of the use of numerical methods in literary studies.

▪ Older academics, of whatever persuasion, were hostile to the idea of overt professionalism in literary study.

longitudinal

▪ Equally conflicting results with regard to glycaemic control and platelet-specific protein levels have been reported in longitudinal studies.

▪ Essentially, this is a longitudinal study of one subject.

▪ Undertaken by the National Children's Bureau, this is a longitudinal study of breathtaking scale and thoroughness.

▪ Finally, research evidence, particularly longitudinal studies which relate children's present situations to future outcomes, will increasingly influence practice.

▪ There are few longitudinal studies which have published data describing changes in the ability to undertake specific adl activities over time.

▪ In particular, the lack of longitudinal studies of older people in Britain is a major deficiency.

▪ Panel studies are an example of longitudinal studies which are not, of course, confined to attitude research.

▪ There are several difficulties with longitudinal studies, in addition to the usual problems of sample-based survey research.

present

▪ Results Patients included in the present study had diarrhoea that in some cases was of long duration.

▪ The aim of the present study was to review a group of patients in whom sclerosing cholangitis was present.

▪ The critical factors in determining the growth in the present study are all external; none are intrinsic to the science itself.

▪ The indium-111 leukocyte technique is particularly suitable for the present study since it utilises the homing properties of neutrophils in response to specific chemoattractants.

▪ The present study provides further evidence for these interactions in the colon.

▪ All of the books containing material related to the theses in the present study are such compilations.

▪ These patients served as probands in the present study.

previous

▪ I would be grateful for any information on previous or proposed studies in this area.

▪ A large intra- and interindividual variation is found, as reported in all previous pharmacokinetic studies of the different 5-ASA formulations.

▪ No previous study has identified predictors of outcome beyond 12 months among patients admitted to hospital with community-acquired pneumonia.

▪ Administration of indomethacin caused no decrease in the glucose induced insulin release in our preparation confirming previous studies.

▪ This confirms the results of previous studies.

▪ All previous studies have been based on statistics provided by individual nations.

▪ The previous pediatric studies of Sondheimer and Staiano etal did not support this theory.

▪ Unlike previous studies, Chamberlain did not pool the observations for the separate contracts on each commodity.

recent

▪ A recent major study of traffic problems in the Edinburgh area recognised road safety as a major factor for consideration.

▪ Several other recent studies have shown that moderate consumption of red wine, in particular, is helpful for preventing heart disease.

▪ Neither he nor his aides refuted a recent study suggesting that the bill would push 2. 6 million people into poverty.

▪ A very recent study confirms this once again.

▪ Incidentally, I've been reading some recent studies of Sardinian banditry.

▪ One recent study concluded: These days, some truckers are more inclined to sport white collars than tank tops.

▪ It is interesting to compare the methodology of this experiment with that of recent studies which have used more natural discourse.

▪ Several recent studies have confirmed the efficacy of lengthy spacing.

scientific

▪ Possibly the earliest attempt at a scientific study of ageing, he wrote it when he was himself 62.

▪ There is no apparent conclusive scientific study, but the anecdotal evidence is strong that the herb is useful.

▪ New scientific studies indicating that the danger of dioxin was in fact worse than previously realized were hardly reported.

▪ Government ministries set aside $ 7 million for further scientific studies.

▪ Ecological Science and Forestry Ecology is the scientific study of organisms in relation to the physical and biological environment.

▪ One involves the scientific study of which women are likely to keep their own last names after marriage.

▪ Tinbergen demonstrated that it was possible, simply by watching animals, to make a scientific study of them.

▪ Dozens of scientific studies investigated the claims.

social

▪ There are some issues within social studies itself which are interesting.

▪ Take the social studies / humanities curriculum as an example.

▪ I looked at several texts directed at the upper half of secondary schools and roughly the same categories emerged as for social studies.

▪ This, too, is social studies.

▪ Opportunities for school children to spend periods in various departments as part of their social studies or community placement should be encouraged.

▪ She was in my social studies class.

▪ In turn, successful return of land may benefit by guidance from social science studies.

▪ Many are pulling information from the Internet to prepare for debates and write social studies reports.

■ NOUN

business

▪ There was little or no overt resistance to the development of business studies degrees, for two sets of reasons.

case

▪ Presented with case studies, it takes no time for pupils to express strongly held opinions.

▪ The only exception to this happy situation is the case study or historical thesis or dissertation.

▪ The evidence from the case studies demonstrates that managers did not respond to market signals in simplistic ways.

▪ All students should spend part of their time using case studies and real-world problems to learn and apply academic content.

▪ This is made easier by confining the study to a small range of detailed case studies.

▪ Plasma phosphates also influence plasma calcium levels. Case studies show that there is a reciprocal relationship between calcium and phosphorus.

▪ A related advantage of the case study method is that it more readily allows the exploration of interaction between variables.

▪ More immediately, the case study will represent considerable progress.

pilot

▪ The colours were roughly matched for salience in pilot studies with healthy observers.

▪ Methodology Initially a small database would be created as a pilot study.

▪ In the pilot study, a domain-specific dictionary was tested with a document from the same domain.

▪ During the period of the pilot study, I kept a weekly account of my workload and activities.

▪ At St Mary's, we decided to set up a 10-week pilot study before fully implementing the new role.

▪ The pilot studies are intended to lay the foundation for more detailed research into the role of effective innovation in corporate competitiveness.

▪ Provisional tables, etc., for the final report should be specified. 4. Pilot study.

skill

▪ Enhance study skills in preparation for tertiary education 3.

▪ In addition to counselling on particular personal problems, advice is available on aspects such as accommodation, study skills and careers.

▪ Tuition in study skills and information retrieval methods especially electronic.

▪ Much use will be made of the School Library where study skills will be learnt.

▪ Our Skills Centre can help you with any personal study skill from time-management to overcoming dyslexia.

▪ For some members of staff, study skills was what the ESSE/L Project was really all about.

▪ In contrast, 4 Colleges and 1 Polytechnic offered language improvement, and 9 Colleges and 6 Polytechnics study skills.

■ VERB

based

▪ The report is based on a study by Bradford Business Link.

▪ Much of the data on disappearing species is based upon studies of species that have disappeared from islands.

▪ Designs based upon interpenetration studies by Paul Klee.

▪ Animal models of man Psychobiology is based largely on studies of behavioural and physiological processes in non-human animals.

▪ This conclusion is based on studies of human society, both modern and tribal, and on comparisons with apes and birds.

▪ This brief report is based on a study of the response of boards to the materials and training provided.

▪ A number of empirical studies of the volatility-volume relationship based on studies of futures other than index futures is summarized in Table 8.3.

carry

▪ To help tackle the problem, the park authority is carrying out a research study.

▪ It has carried out a five-year study which it says shows no significant increase in radiation is reaching the earth's surface.

▪ Interestingly neither of these two people were sociologists, though sociologists have carried out participant studies amongst homosexuals and criminal gangs.

▪ Two studies will be carried out.

▪ The most detailed type of sorting consists of carrying out a die study.

▪ Scientists at the laboratory will carry out a study to gain a clearer picture of the dummy's effectiveness.

▪ The Agriculture Minister, John Gummer, said that the government would carry out a pilot study into pollution control methods.

conduct

▪ The national Perinatal Epidemiology Unit in Oxford is conducting a nation-wide study into the subject.

▪ Astra refuses to conduct further rat studies with lower doses of ranitidine, saying that this is Glaxo's job.

▪ Shine, who distrusts photographs, has been conducting environmental studies at the lake for 20 years.

▪ Interviews will be conducted early in the study and repeated two years later.

▪ The port is conducting studies in hopes of proving the point.

▪ Describe how you would conduct a study to investigate the well-being of such ex-patients.

▪ Its members conduct studies that are mainly sociological in nature, looking at questions like the importance of counselling to hysterectomy patients.

include

▪ In London, however, his scope widened to include the study of important contemporary texts.

▪ The doctors must explain the uncertainty of the outcome when seeking permission to include some one in the study.

▪ No night duty was included in the study.

▪ Nisbett and Cohen say they did not include blacks in their study because homicide rates for blacks are unrelated to region.

▪ All patients had normal serum concentrations of liver enzymes and bilirubin and were included consecutively in the study.

▪ The report did not include studies of areas as hot as Tucson.

▪ The research will include case studies of 20 schools in three local education authorities, examining change as it occurs.

▪ Forbes joined the race too late to be included in the study, said Lewis.

undertake

▪ I want to undertake the postgraduate study in Britain.

▪ One man undertook his studies with uncommon diligence, laboring nights, and walked away with seven pairs.

▪ When we undertook our study we found that the categorisation usually made of the special needs of children was insufficiently detailed.

▪ It has also undertaken studies and simulation exercises in emergency planning.

▪ This 1960 Act required the Surgeon General to undertake studies of the health effects of motor vehicle exhaust emissions.

▪ Now that you have considered these empirical studies, you should be more capable of undertaking your own study.

▪ One department uses a library mainly when undertaking a major study which requires the stimulation of a general library search.

▪ It undertook feasibility studies to determine the usefulness of various techniques as applied to frescos and plasterwork.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

bury yourself in your work/studies etc

comparative study/analysis etc

▪ All the topics covered would have to be placed in context but there would be no, say, comparative studies.

▪ Other recent examples of comparative studies are those of Lowe - independent study modules and lecture tours, in 1981.

▪ She said a comparative study of about 15, 000 randomly selected Gulf War veterans is planned for the near future.

▪ Space and resources preclude an exhaustive or even an extensive comparative study in this work.

▪ The comparative study of institutions is not new in political science.

▪ The comparative study of kinship terminologies is one of the longest established traditions in academic anthropology.

▪ Thus, the comparative analysis of achievable stopping patterns by bus, light rail and suburban rail is well done.

cost-benefit analysis/study/approach

▪ Any careful cost-benefit analysis will show that every social practice and institution has limitations and presents difficulties as well as opportunities.

▪ Does this enable the court to take into account the comparative social utility of the product and apply a cost-benefit analysis?

▪ Easing actions were subject to an instant cost-benefit analysis.

▪ Economists have long been calling for safety regulations to be subject to cost-benefit analysis.

▪ Environmental intangibles have been built into the cost-benefit analysis in the same way as they are for road schemes.

▪ Few laws require cost-benefit analysis for new rules and many actively prohibit it.

▪ The port should have the results of a cost-benefit analysis within 120 days, Bowman said.

▪ The third approach to merger policy is the cost-benefit approach.

independent study/learning

▪ Councillors will discuss the possibility of funding an independent study into the mine's viability.

▪ In the spring semester Gordon taught two seminars and took on more than a dozen students for independent study projects.

▪ It will make provision for mixed-ability groups much easier to organise, and encourage independent study.

▪ Other recent examples of comparative studies are those of Lowe - independent study modules and lecture tours, in 1981.

▪ The course manual can be used for independent study.

▪ The increased use of independent learning at higher levels within the pathway is reflected in the assessment pattern within the modules.

▪ Two independent studies since the 1968 election confirm the trend.

▪ Would you like to do this as an independent study?

pilot study/project/scheme etc

▪ A pilot study is being carried out with Manchester University.

▪ Olmsted saw Niagara as a pilot project for a larger and more ambitious campaign.

▪ Schools are being invited to put forward their brightest pupils to do the tests as part of the pilot scheme.

▪ The pilot scheme bid backed in principle by the committee yesterday is proposed for Darlington and Durham.

▪ The colours were roughly matched for salience in pilot studies with healthy observers.

▪ The Environmental Defense Fund brokered a series of pilot projects in Juarez, including one to test vehicle emissions.

▪ Under a pilot scheme multinationals have been allowed to issue their own work permits to foreign staff.

▪ With modest resources, the Agriculture Department is introducing the new technologies to growers in a handful of pilot projects nationwide.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ Studies of dolphins have shown that they are able to communicate information to each other.

▪ A series of studies was made to discover the relationship between diet and behavior.

▪ Berne has published a review of studies on sex education programs in public schools.

▪ Our comparative study of political culture includes five democracies.

▪ Paleontology is the study of ancient life.

▪ Recent studies have shown that women find it harder than men to give up smoking.

▪ The exhibition includes a series of studies by Picasso for his painting Guernica.

▪ We're doing a study into how much time people spend watching television each day.

▪ Woodward's busy work schedule left little time for study on her MBA degree.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ A Scandinavian study uses a randomisation scheme which will probably prevent the group from obtaining a scientifically valuable result.

▪ Four such cases have been reported in the United Kingdom during the past decade, the study says.

▪ If the study yields promising projections, construction will begin in April.

▪ Later studies have concentrated on comparisons with attitudes to oil development in Dorset and on reactions to Chernobyl.

▪ Most of the relevant experimental evidence on this issue comes not from studies of latent inhibition but from investigations of conditioning itself.

▪ The study also showed a disturbing trend in another area: hours worked.

▪ The Peace Corps Volunteers were a study in contrast.

▪ Treatment with sedative antihistamines was continued throughout the study if they were in use on entry.

II.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

college

▪ They always encouraged varied materials where I studied at art college in Loughborough.

▪ As a teen, Dunn was encouraged by her father to study art in college.

▪ Her friends, also studying at exclusive colleges, said they had no difficulty being served drink despite their ages.

▪ Some of the students come for extra help for courses they are studying at the college.

▪ Karen therefore studied school administration in college and went into this field.

detail

▪ The few examples of state formation which have been studied in detail are all significantly different in important respects.

▪ I had to steel myself to look again so that I could study the details dispassionately.

▪ Despite being one of the commonest and most widespread birds in Britain, until recently it had not been studied in detail.

▪ The magnetic field is thus one aspect of the earth that scientists have studied in detail for centuries.

▪ During S2 the same topics are studied but in more detail and greater emphasis is placed on accuracy and presentation.

▪ Take time to study the details.

▪ We can study in detail how the complementary descriptions of position and momentum relate to each other.

▪ This idea has not been studied in detail in any lek species to date.

face

▪ He climbed the ladder and studied his face for half an hour in the silver disc that was his halo.

▪ She studied her face again, watching herself take a drag of her cigarette.

▪ Simply study the face of the youngster featured.

▪ Realizing that Foley was studying his face, he flushed.

▪ I would keep my eyes resolutely shut while he studied my face.

▪ Mallachy turned away from Jessica, Karen studied Rory's face.

▪ I looked more closely, studying his face with as much detachment as I could.

history

▪ From 1969 to 1977 he worked as an X-ray technician in Jerusalem, and then studied history at Beirut University.

▪ You study the history of religions, comparative religion, the scriptures of the world, maybe the psychology of religion.

▪ Well, one gets a bit tired of studying ancient history.

▪ What had I really learned from studying history and psychology and philosophy and literature?

▪ Many overseas students come to study the languages, history, culture and traditions of this country.

▪ As Figure 1.3 shows, those who study history are eminently trainable for a wide variety of occupations.

▪ That's one of the important reasons why we need to study history.

▪ Two years have been set aside to allow time to study a period of History in sufficient depth.

issue

▪ This contact made him study the issue of conformity to the established church.

▪ Few studies have attempted to study the issues from the point of view of the historian.

▪ So now Clinton does Ike one better: He has created a seven-member commission to study racial issues.

▪ The tribe waited to study the issue.

▪ The committee, which studied the issue for 19 months, had signaled its conclusions in a draft report two months ago.

▪ But they want more time to study the issue, preferably in hearings before the House Judiciary Committee and other relevant panels.

language

▪ He studied languages, studied political theory, knew diseases intimately, had official records of his skill as a pilot.

▪ Many people have studied languages in the past in school or elsewhere and this knowledge can be built upon.

▪ Language change is one of the subjects of historical linguistics, the subfield of linguistics that studies language in its historical aspects.

▪ Many overseas students come to study the languages, history, culture and traditions of this country.

▪ I would stay here for a year, study the language, live with people, write my book.

▪ Because of poor health he was educated at home before enrolling at Glasgow University to study humanities and classical languages.

▪ I had done my best to study the language in Fontanellato.

opportunity

▪ These records provided a rare opportunity to study the attenuation of strong seismic waves as a means of assessing seismic hazard.

▪ Winningham lived near Granada Hills High but got an opportunity transfer to study theater at Chatsworth.

▪ Some members had not yet had the opportunity to study the Report and the Trustees response.

▪ University offers a unique opportunity to study subjects not offered at school as well as those of which applicants may have some experience.

▪ The Faculty offers opportunities to study and conduct research in most branches of law and legal scholarship.

▪ This discovery has given scientists a unique opportunity to study these unusual phenomena.

▪ Sailing and trout fishing are available for the more active, and opportunities to study the wildlife are being developed.

▪ She took over the serving of the tea and cakes and Jenna had the opportunity to study her surreptitiously.

patient

▪ We studied patients who had coronary arteriography and then later an infarct.

▪ Also the specificity of our results needs to be verified as we did not study patients with other inflammatory bowel diseases.

▪ Isner and his colleagues studied 10 patients with severe atherosclerosis.

▪ We elected to study only patients with disabling liquid stool incontinence and urgency where conventional medical treatment had already failed.

▪ Although we did not study any patients with severe symptoms, our findings seem to be clinically relevant.

▪ They studied 27 patients suffering from irritable bowel syndrome who believed themselves to have food allergy or intolerance.

researcher

▪ This gives researchers the ability to study the abilities of each hemisphere of a single brain separately.

▪ Still, dental researchers are studying adult teeth that have taken decades of abuse from food, drinks and sweets.

▪ According to Townsend, the data should be invaluable to researchers studying rural areas.

▪ In particular, the researcher may study himself or herself in order to maintain a specific behavior or change a specific behavior.

▪ The methodology of ethnography is usually dependent upon the constraints operating on whom or what the researcher wants to study.

▪ A rendezvous also would have permitted researchers to study the effects of electron emissions from the shuttle on the satellite.

▪ Bird-watching has been used by many researchers to study children's behaviour.

▪ Just how essential this help can be was documented over 18 years by a researcher studying these animals in a captive environment.

school

▪ For two years Anne studied hard at school.

▪ Karen therefore studied school administration in college and went into this field.

▪ This boy has studied at film school.

▪ He began to complain about Theresa, who was studying for medical school.

▪ And the short story is studied in depth in school and college.

▪ Nestorius himself had studied at the theological school of Antioch, where his mentor was a man known as Theodore of Mopsuestia.

▪ If it is vocationally disadvantageous to study history at school, it must be vocationally suicidal to study the subject at university.

scientist

▪ The social scientist tends to study events soas to draw conclusions of a more general and rather static kind.

▪ Transmission has always been the burning issue for scientists interested in studying this epidemic.

▪ Hard currency can be earned for the authorities from foreign scientists who want to study the effects of a nuclear accident.

▪ In the past, Livermore scientists studied those mini-explosions to better understand the physics of nuclear weapons blasts.

▪ Despite asking scientists studying penguins about this, none could give an answer.

▪ The scientists studied nine large families in Utah and Colorado with multiple cases of schizophrenia.

▪ The mating behaviour of pied flycatchers is immensely complicated and scientists studying them interpret their behaviour slightly differently.

▪ When a scientist studies combustion, he peers though his instruments at one of the million aspects of the one great mystery.

student

▪ Exemplar assessments could be made available for students to study in order to give guidance on what is expected.

▪ It was a little fish that was colorless and thoughtful-looking, one of those students who study hard and barely pass.

▪ If the student is studying under a tutor or supervisor an adequate number of problems will be supplied to him.

▪ Back in their high school biology class, the students had been studying the cardiovascular and respiratory systems.

▪ She was also a physicist, one of the rare female students to study pure science.

▪ The students in the above study had parents who placed a high value on education.

▪ John Hebbes was a second year student, studying mathematics.

▪ Then Jack had been a student studying zoology at the university; now he was a lecturer in computers.

subject

▪ University offers a unique opportunity to study subjects not offered at school as well as those of which applicants may have some experience.

▪ Nor is the right to study any particular subject or any foreign language.

▪ But it too uses passive tests most frequently when it is studying female subjects.

▪ Their list looks remarkably like those of researchers who have studied this subject.

▪ The student is therefore likely to study four different subjects in these two years, in up to four departments.

▪ Tightly regulated standards for schools, including the number of minutes that are to be spent studying a subject.

▪ To examine the reasons for studying a particular subject. 2.

▪ U., studying some arcane subject that turned out to be completely irrelevant.

university

▪ Two-year course students may be a little older, and have already studied drama at university level.

▪ She graduated from the Gymnasium and has even studied in the university.

▪ Students combining Latin with a modern language usually spend their third year studying Latin at a university in the appropriate country.

▪ Women were now studying at the university.

▪ James had studied law at university but now was working in the personnel department of Cadbury's.

▪ When my service here is finished, I hope to return to my mathematics studies at the university.

▪ All but six of these students would be studying at university.

▪ The proliferation of media studies centers at leading universities can play an increasingly important role in fostering critical self-examination of the media.

■ VERB

spend

▪ When you spend long periods studying the board the latter point becomes quite important.

▪ Much of the time in the air was spent studying.

▪ When she told him he spent hours studying catalogues and brochures deciding how to spend it.

▪ A public service agency spends so much time studying the financial implications of a project that cost overruns are virtually guaranteed.

▪ For the past year has spent her spare moments studying for an Open University degree in science and technology.

▪ The Panthers' offense is fairly predictable, and the 49ers spent the offseason studying their defense.

▪ He then spent five years studying surgery at Edinburgh, qualifying in 1938.

▪ Tightly regulated standards for schools, including the number of minutes that are to be spent studying a subject.