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- pronunciation:
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 ns
- features:
- Word History, Word Explorer, Word Parts
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noun |
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When people are studying nature or humans in a very careful way and testing what they believe about these things, they are doing science. In school, when you learn about science, you learn what people know about plants, animals, the human body, the earth, the stars, and other planets.
科学
Jackie likes learning about science. In class today, she learned about different birds. |
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When you study a science, you study a particular area of science. You might study the science of plants, for example, or the science of the human body.
学科
Biology and geology are two of Ari's favorite sciences. |
Science comes from a Latin word that means "knowledge."
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some activities in science |
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examine, research, study, test |
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some aspects of science |
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argument, debate, discussion, experiment, logic |
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some examples of sciences |
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agriculture, archaeology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, electronics, geology, law, medicine, meteorology, psychology, zoology |
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some places for science |
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lab, laboratory, school |
The word science
contains the following parts:
sci
Latin
root
that means to know
  Example words:
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, admittance, agency, arrogance, attendance, audience, buoyancy, conference, confidence, consequence, consistency, currency, deficiency, difference, disappearance, disturbance, emergency, frequency, importance, independence, occurrence, preference, presidency, residence, science, tendency
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