Study

1. v. i. A piece for special practice. See Etude.
2. v. i. A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge.
3. v. i. Mental occupation; absorbed or thoughtful attention; meditation; contemplation.
4. v. i. Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
5. v. i. A building or apartment devoted to study or to literary work.
6. v. i. A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture.
7. v. t. To form or arrange by previous thought; to con over, as in committing to memory; as, to study a speech.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.