STUDYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does studying mean? 

• STUDYING (noun)
  The noun STUDYING has 1 sense:

1. reading carefully with intent to remember

  Familiarity information: STUDYING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUDYING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reading carefully with intent to remember

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

perusal; perusing; poring over; studying

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)

 Context examples 

While he wrote, he could go on studying.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A technique which subtracts two images that are obtained before and after contrast media is administered to the patient for the purpose of studying blood vessels.

(Digital Subtraction Angiography, NCI Thesaurus)

A method of studying a drug or procedure in which both the subjects and investigators are kept unaware of who is actually getting which specific treatment.

(Double Blind Study, NCI Thesaurus)

Is Teddy studying so hard that he can't find time to write to his friends?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Certainly, your having a profession, and being actually engaged in studying it, makes a difference.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As scientists receive better and better views of the dwarf planet over the next 16 months, they hope to gain a deeper understanding of its origin and evolution by studying its surface.

('Bright Spot' on Ceres Has Dimmer Companion, NASA)

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The researchers further showed that tau was the important factor behind these effects by studying mice that had their gene for tau deleted.

(Pathogenic tau and cognitive impairment are precipitated by a high-salt diet, National Institutes of Health)

He was brilliant, but so was Maud, and for some time I lost the thread of the conversation through studying her face as she talked.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network is now studying breast, colorectal, esophageal, lung, and prostate cancers.

(Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network, NCI Dictionary)