scientific study
collocation in Englishmeaningsofscientificandstudy
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scientific
adjective
uk/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/us/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/
relating to science, or using the organized methods ...
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study
noun
uk/ˈstʌd.i/us/ˈstʌd.i/
the activity of examining a subject in detail in order to discover ...
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(Definition ofscientificandstudyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In a society bent upon supportingscientificstudy, art was seen as an antidote to the potentially inhumane tendencies of science.
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There are intrinsic limitations to governmentality, which stem from the market mechanism and come to light via itsscientificstudy.
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When change in the phenomena of interest is the object ofscientificstudy, the scientists are said to be studying the behavior of the phenomena.
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His is an ambitious interdisciplinary endeavour which seeks to bring together the insights of evolutionary biology, ethics, theology, and the socialscientificstudyof religions.
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Small temporary hides, blinds or screens may be constructed for the purpose ofscientificstudyof the avifauna.
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Thescientificstudyof perception must be broader than what it has been throughout most of twentieth century.
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Thescientificstudyof dreaming is in the midst of a millennial year's change.
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We rely instead on information derived fromscientificstudyas a substitute for the economic market to help us make health system quality/cost trade-offs.
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The ability to model the flow of patients through health care systems is the breakthrough that thescientificstudyof rehabilitation and continuing care needs.
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The present study is the firstscientificstudyof this nature in this part of the world.
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In thescientificstudyof language, how or where does the presumption of major or minor come in?
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In some cases, it also provided interesting and important data useful for steering futurescientificstudy.
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Both authors advocate ascientificstudyof animal behavior.
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This weaker definition of synonymy is a basic premise in thescientificstudyof meaning.
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In the last two or three decades, material culture as a topic ofscientificstudyhas experienced a real boom.
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For the purposes of thescientificstudyof language, all languages, all dialects, all idiolects, are of equal interest.
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In fact, thescientificstudyof the self falls largely in the camp of social and personality developmentalists.
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A genuinelyscientificstudyis the attempt to account for what you think happens in the world.
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In many ways these findings constitute an empirical breakthrough in thescientificstudyof the probability of war.
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