science
/ˈsaɪ.əns/ verb C2- To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.
- To use science to solve a problem.
He/she/it sciences · Past scienced · Past participle scienced · -ing form sciencing
Verb forms
- Base form
- science
- He/she/it
- sciences
- Past
- scienced
- Past participle
- scienced
- -ing form
- sciencing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“When I first came up to London I had rooms in Montague Street, just round the corner from the British Museum, and there I waited, filling in my too abundant leisure time by studying all those branches of science which might make me more efficient.
Dodd, it was not to discuss the science of observation that you called upon me this morning.
Each word that fell from his companion’s lips seemed fraught with the mysteries of science, as worthy of digging out as the gold and diamonds in the mines of Guzerat and Golconda, which he could just recollect having visited during a voyage made in his earliest youth.
Ethel Marr was admitted by all competent judges to have the most stylish modes of hair-dressing, and Jane Andrews--plain, plodding, conscientious Jane--carried off the honors in the domestic science course.
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