How to sign: consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
"analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives";
Similiar / Same: analyze, analyse, examine, canvass, canvas
Within this category: anatomize, assay, audit, check, compare, diagnose, diagnose, investigate, review, screen, sieve, survey, survey, trace, view
How to sign: a written document describing the findings of some individual or group
"this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale";
Similiar / Same: report, written report
Categories: document, papers, written document
Within this category: assay, blue book, case study, green paper, medical report, position paper, progress report, white book
How to sign: be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning
Within this category: major
How to sign: a branch of knowledge
"in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings";
Similiar / Same: discipline, subject area, subject field, field of study, branch of knowledge, bailiwick, subject, field
Categories: knowledge base, knowledge domain
Within this category: allometry, architecture, bibliotics, communications, engineering, frontier, futurology, humanistic discipline, major, military science, numerology, occultism, ology, protology, science, theogony, theology
How to sign: think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes
"He is meditating in his study";
Similiar / Same: meditate, contemplate
Categories: cerebrate, cogitate, think
How to sign: preliminary drawing for later elaboration
"he made several studies before starting to paint";
Similiar / Same: sketch
Categories: drawing