Study vs Recognize - 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 .
To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.
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To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as valid or worthy of consideration.
To acknowledge or consider as something.
To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realize or admit that.
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, title= To give an award.
To show appreciation of.
(obsolete) To review; to examine again.
(obsolete) To reconnoiter.
To cognize again.
Study is a related term of recognize.
As verbs the difference between study and recognize
is that 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 while recognize is to match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity or recognize can be to cognize again.As a noun study
is (label) a state of mental perplexity or worried thought.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
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(studies)The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
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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
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* 1000 English basic wordsrecognize
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) reconoistre, from (etyl) recognoscere, first attested in the 16th century. Displaced native English , compare German erkennen.Alternative forms
* recognise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(recogniz) (North American and Oxford British spelling)- He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days, and he felt a genuine thrill of pleasure when he recognized the red bandana turban of old Aunt Lyddy, the ancient negro woman who had sold him gingerbread and fried fish, and told him weird tales of witchcraft and conjuration, in the old days when, as an idle boy, he had loafed about the market-house.
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Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}
- to recognize services by a testimonial
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