Study vs Muse - What's the difference?
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(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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*: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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, title= The act of studying; examination.
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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 .
A source of inspiration.
(archaic) A poet; a bard.
To become lost in thought, to ponder.
To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
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To think on; to meditate on.
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, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To wonder at.
An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 416:
A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
Study is a related term of muse.
As nouns the difference between study and muse
is that study is (label) a state of mental perplexity or worried thought while muse is .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.study
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
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Noun
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Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?, passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}
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Synonyms
* (private male room) cabinet, closet (archaic)Coordinate terms
* (private male room) boudoir (female equivalent)Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) muse, from (etyl) .Noun
(s)- (Milton)
Usage notes
The plural musae'' can also be found, though it is much rarer than ''muses .Etymology 2
First attested in 1340. From (etyl) muser.Verb
(mus)- Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- still he sate long time astonished / As in great muse , ne word to creature spake.
- He fell into a muse and pulled his upper lip.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) musse. See muset.Noun
(en noun)- Find a hare without a muse . (old proverb)