ETYMOLOGIZES Synonyms

• investigate scientifically

• conduct an inquiry or investigation of

• systematic investigation to establish facts

• a search for knowledge

• attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner

• inquire into

• a detailed critical inspection

• applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)

• a written document describing the findings of some individual or group

• a state of deep mental absorption

• a room used for reading and writing and studying

• a branch of knowledge

• preliminary drawing for later elaboration

• attentive consideration and meditation

• someone who memorizes quickly and easily (as the lines for a part in a play)

• a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique

• consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning

• be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning

• give careful consideration to

• be a student of a certain subject

• learn by reading books

• think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes

• a just detectable amount

• an indication that something has been present

• a suggestion of some quality

• a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image

• either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree

• a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle

• follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something

• make a mark or lines on a surface

• to go back over again

• pursue or chase relentlessly

• discover traces of

• make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along

• copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of

• read with difficulty

• give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word)

• construct the history of words