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[School]

School is the place you go to learn, and the place you escape from when you play hooky. When you school someone, it means you’ve educated or put that person in his or her place.

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A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

Noun
a building where young people receive education; "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning"

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the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?"

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a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by"

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a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting"

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an educational institution; "the school was founded in 1900"

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Noun
an educational institution''s faculty and students; "the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game"

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the period of instruction in a school; the time period when schools is in session; "stay after school"; "he didn''t miss a single day of school"; "when the school day was done we would walk home together"

Verb
swim in or form a large group of fish; "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"

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educate in or as if in a school; "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions"

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train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"

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A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

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A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets.

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A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.

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A session of an institution of instruction.

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One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning.

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The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.

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An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.

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The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc.

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The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school.

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Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.

v. t.
To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.

v. t.
To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.

School

School , n. [For shool a crowd; prob. confuced with school for learning.] A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

School

School, n. [OE. scole, AS. sclu, L. schola, Gr. leisure, that in which leisure is employed, disputation, lecture, a school, probably from the same root as , the original sense being perhaps, a stopping, a resting. See Scheme.] 1. A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets.

Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

2. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.

As he sat in the school at his primer.

3. A session of an institution of instruction.

How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day?

4. One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning.

At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools.

5. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held. 6. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.

What is the great community of Christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences?

7. The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc.

Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians.

8. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school.

His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools.

9. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience. Boarding school, Common school, District school, Normal school, etc. See under Boarding, Common, District, etc. -- High school, a free public school nearest the rank of a college. [U.S.] -- School board, a corporation established by law in every borough or parish in England, and elected by the burgesses or ratepayers, with the duty of providing public school accomodation for all children in their dictrict. -- School commitee, School board, an elected commitee of citizens having charge and care of the public schools in any district, town, or city, and responsible control of the money appropriated for school purposes. [U.S.] -- School days, the period in which youth are sent to school. -- School district, a division of a town or city for establishing and conducting schools. [U.S.] -- Sunday school, ∨ Sabbath school, a school held on Sunday for study of the Bible and for religious instruction; the pupils, or the teachers and pupils, of such a school, collectively.

School

School, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Schooled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Schooling.] 1. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.

He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned.

2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic disciplene; to train.

It now remains for you to school your child, And ask why God's Anointed be reviled.

The mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze.

A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets.

To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.

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Usage Examples

Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

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Other Usage Examples

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.

After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.