Employment vs Study - What's the difference?
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A use, purpose
* 1873 , John Stuart Mill, Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
The act of employing
The state of being employed
* 1853 , Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener'', in ''Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'', New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as ''Bartleby , ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.3:
The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid
An activity to which one devotes time
(economics) The number or percentage of people at work
(usually, academic) To revise materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination.
(academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.
To acquire knowledge on a subject.
To look at minutely.
To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
* Jonathan Swift
To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
* Bible, 1 Thessalonians iv. 11
(label) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
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*:wel said the kynge thow mayst take myn hors by force but and I my?te preue the whether thow were better on horsbak or I / wel said the knyght seke me here whan thow wolt and here nygh this wel thow shalt fynde me / and soo passyd on his weye / thenne the kyng sat in a study and bad his men fetche his hors as faste as euer they myghte
(label) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Just men they seemed, and all their study bent / To worship God aright, and know his works.
Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
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*1661 , ,
*:During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study ; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
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*:Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
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Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
*(William Law) (1686-1761)
*:The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study .
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:The proper study of mankind is man.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (senseid)A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of household.
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*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
*:his cheery little study
An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
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(label) A piece for special practice; an .
Employment is a related term of study.
As nouns the difference between employment and study
is that employment is a use, purpose while study is (label) a state of mental perplexity or worried thought.As a verb study is
(usually|academic) to revise materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination.employment
English
Noun
(wikipedia employment)- This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.
- ''The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
- At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment , and a promising lad as an office-boy.
Synonyms
* employ * hireAntonyms
* unemployment * underemploymentstudy
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Students are expected to start studying for final exams in March.
- I need to study my biology notes.
- I study medicine at the university.
- Biologists study living things.
- He studied the map in preparation for the hike.
- I found a moral first, and then studied for a fable.
- And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you
Synonyms
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