Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.
- n. Such activities restricted to a class of natural phenomena.
- n. Such activities applied to an object of inquiry or study.
- n. Methodological activity, discipline, or study: I've got packing a suitcase down to a science.
- n. An activity that appears to require study and method: the science of purchasing.
- n. Knowledge, especially that gained through experience.
- n. Christian Science.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Knowledge;comprehension or understanding of facts or principles.
- n. Knowledge gained by systematic observation, experiment, and reasoning; knowledge coördinated, arranged, and systematized; also, the prosecution of truth as thus known, both in the abstract and as a historical development.
- n. Knowledge regarding any special group of objects, coördinated, arranged, and systematized; what is known concerning a subject, systematically arranged; a branch of knowledge: as, the science of botany, of astronomy, of etymology, of metaphysics; mental science; physical science; in a narrow sense, one of the physical sciences, as distinguished from mathematics, metaphysics, etc. In reference to their degree of specialization, the sciences may be arranged as follows.
- n. Art derived from precepts or based on principles; skill resulting from training; special, exceptional, or preëminent skill.
- n. Trade; occupation.
- n. Synonyms and Art, Science. See art.
- n. A so-called system of healing, which aims at a cnre of all physical ailments by educating the mind of the patient in certain directions. The mind is supposed to be trained to exclnde every idea of the existence of any real discomfort, on the ground that all such discomfort is the result of abnormal mental conditions; the mind being properly trained to ignore the body, no discomfort exists, since the mind does not admit it. The system has many variations, but in general is, evidently, a form of mind-cure or faith-cure.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable Knowledge derived from scientific disciplines, scientific method, or any systematic effort.
- v. transitive To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.
- n. Obsolete spelling of scion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Knowledge; knowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts.
- n. Accumulated and established knowledge, which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth; comprehensive, profound, or philosophical knowledge.
- n. Especially, such knowledge when it relates to the physical world and its phenomena, the nature, constitution, and forces of matter, the qualities and functions of living tissues, etc.; -- called also
natural science , andphysical science . - n. Any branch or department of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study.
- n. Art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles.
- v. rare To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a particular branch of scientific knowledge
- n. ability to produce solutions in some problem domain
Etymologies
- See scion. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, knowledge, learning, from Old French, from Latin scientia, from sciēns, scient-, present participle of scīre, to know; see skei- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The past dead ends of science may not be relevant for a science class, but they are quite relevant for a *history of science* or *philosophy of science* class, as a corrective to the notion that science is a linear progression of successful theories.”
An Atheist Defends Intelligent-Design Creationism - The Panda's Thumb
“We should remember at the outset that the nomad or minor science evoked in A Thousand Plateaus is not the Royal or major science that makes up the entirety of what Deleuze and Guattari call ˜science™ in What is Philosophy?.”
“This chapter also draws largely, especially upon geological and chemical science, and affords another illustration of what, I trust, Mr. Stephens's book will more and more impress upon our working farmers, that _skilful practice is applied science_.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
“Personally the science of autosuggestion -- for I consider it as entirely a _science -- _has rendered me great services; but truth compels me to declare that if I continue to interest myself particularly in it, it is because I find in it the means of exercising true charity.”
Maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente. English
“_We have science, and the applications of science_, which are united together as the tree and its fruit. ”
Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873
“The statesman endeavoured to show that we ought not to be surprised at this result, because _in our day the reign of theoretic science yielded place to that of applied science_.”
Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873
“But when the Committee of Inquiry sits at last, and the business begins to assume a systematic form, even the science of that ideal good, that exemplar and pattern of good, which men have been busy on so long, -- the _science_ of it, -- is put down as 'wanting,' and the”
“I've seen what they teach in "computer science" and can safely tell you that you don't know enough about the * current working state of computer science* by leaps and bounds.”
“As I said, just with religion, science can be subverted by politicians and fools such as yourself that ignore the ’science’ eg. consequences of their actions.”
“But this student has articulatedthe fundamental insight of science studies, that there is more to science than ’science,’ that science is not atransparent reflection of the natural world.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘science’.
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 464 more...
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PHIL - vocabulary of thinking
philosophy, Socratic, dialogue, philosopher, Athenian, philosophical, politic, Greek, method, death, ancient, believe and 243 more...
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Words related to knowledge
Words that relate to learning, knowing, being enlightened...
revelation, eureka, awakening, idea, sapient, astute, canny, intelligent, wise, sharp, shrewd, informed and 467 more...
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Orwellian Purism
Words and phrases George Orwell criticizes in his essay 'Politics and the English Language'.
ring the changes on, take up the cudge..., toe the line, ride roughshod over, stand shoulder to..., play into the han..., no axe to grind, grist to the mill, fishing in troubl..., on the order of t..., Achilles’ heel, swan song and 162 more...
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Keywords, by Raymond Williams
From a book about life and death.
aesthetic, alienation, art, behaviour, bourgeois, bureaucracy, capitalism, career, charity, city, civilization, class and 99 more...
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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words in quotes
single words to be used in quotations more frequently than not.
( randomness )reality, sleep, science, scientist, art, laws, failure, god, man, mankind, artist
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SCI -words
scintilla is the most favoured one
with 95 listings
ironically more than a scintilla of recognitionsciaenid, sciaenoid, sciamachy, sciarid, sciatic, sciatica, sciatical, science, scienced, scient, scienter, sciental and 70 more...
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Words to live by
and my mantras
faith, God, Buddha, Muhammad, laughter, simplicity, hope, gratitude, Jesus, science, theology, agnosticism and 16 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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science (collective opinion)
random scientific terms from a group of one hundred 16-18 year olds to choose 100 words that, in their collective opinion, represent crucial factors and concepts influencing trends in science today...
acid, base, aggregation status, analysis, antimatter, apparatus, atmosphere, atom, bacteria, Big Bang, biodiversity, bioethics and 90 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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Beknownst1981's list
I love words, especially the ones I make up with my friends.
translucent meat ..., beknownst (knew), plethora, curmudgeon, wanderlust, actually, differentiate, bearded, hobbit feet, female, sexy time, librarian and 220 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Faintheart's Words
onomatopoeia, no, terrafactive, word, faint, heart, joy, quixotic, karla, half, amp, tardis and 181 more...
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cutting words
sarcasm, sarx, sarcoptic, syssarcosis, shrew, shrewd, screed, scred, shroud, scroll, scrod, scrutiny and 326 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for science.

lampbane "It works, bitches." Nov 17, 2007
uselessness "Sorry, but if you thought the movie was bad, you're wrong. Scientists have studied it. It's science, baby." Jul 18, 2007