Library / English Dictionary

STUDYING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reading carefully with intent to remember

Synonyms:

perusal; perusing; poring over; studying

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("studying" is a kind of...):

reading (the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message)

Derivation:

study (be a student of a certain subject)

study (learn by reading books)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb study

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 Context examples: 

The process of identifying a disease by studying molecules, such as proteins, DNA, and RNA, in a tissue or fluid.

(Molecular diagnosis, NCI Dictionary)

A doctor who identifies diseases by studying cells and tissues under a microscope.

(Pathologist, NCI Dictionary)

Varry like: but give ower studying; ye've done enough for to-night.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Studying the human microbiome may help prevent and treat disease in the future.

(Microbiome, NCI Dictionary)

Often used for comparison when studying expression of other genes of interest.

(Housekeeping Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

I suppose when you doctored you found yourself studying cases without thought of a fee?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Studying the origins, progression, and treatment of cancer in a non-mammalian organism

(Non-Mammalian Organisms as Models for Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

“Have you,” he said, “really spent your time in studying such nonsense?” I replied in the affirmative.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

For decades, scientists studying osteoporosis have used X-ray imaging to analyze the structure of bones and pinpoint strong and weak spots.

(Discovery may lead to osteoporosis treatment, National Science Foundation)

The work has moved microbiology and genetics research from the wet lab to the data center — creating a computational approach to studying organism interactions and evolution called metagenomics.

(Microbes are at work in our bodies, and researchers have figured out what they're up to, National Science Foundation)