Study vs Witness - 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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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 .
Attestation of a fact or event; testimony.
* Shakespeare
One who sees or has personal knowledge of something.
* Shakespeare
* R. Hall
Someone called to give evidence in a court.
Something that serves as evidence; a sign.
* Bible, Genesis xxxi. 51, 52
To furnish proof of, to show.
* 1667': round he throws his baleful eyes / That '''witness'd huge affliction and dismay — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1 ll. 56-7
To take as evidence.
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To see or gain knowledge of through experience.
* R. Hall
* Marshall
To present personal religious testimony; to preach at (someone) or on behalf of.
* 1998 , "Niebuhr, Reinhold", Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy , volume 6?, page 842
To see the execution of (a legal instrument), and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity.
Study is a related term of witness.
As verbs the difference between study and witness
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 witness is to furnish proof of, to show.As nouns the difference between study and witness
is that study is (label) a state of mental perplexity or worried thought while witness is attestation of a fact or event; testimony.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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Synonyms
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Noun
(es)- She can bear witness , since she was there at the time.
- May we with the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?
- As a witness to the event, I can confirm that he really said that.
- Thyself art witness I am betrothed.
- Upon my looking round, I was witness to appearances which filled me with melancholy and regret.
- The witness for the prosecution did not seem very credible.
- Laban said to Jacob, This heap be witness', and this pillar be ' witness .
Derived terms
* expert witness * eyewitness * key witness * principal witnessVerb
(es)- This certificate witnesses his presence on that day.
- He witnessed the accident.
- This is but a faint sketch of the incalculable calamities and horrors we must expect, should we ever witness the triumphs of modern infidelity.
- General Washington did not live to witness the restoration of peace.
- Instead, Niebuhr's God was the God witnessed to in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament, the Bible of the Christian world.
- to witness a bond or a deed