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school
1
[skool] 
–noun
–adjective
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | an institution where instruction is given, esp. to persons under college age: The children are at school. |
| 2. | an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field. |
| 3. | a college or university. |
| 4. | a regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction: summer school. |
| 5. | a session of such a course: no school today; to be kept after school. |
| 6. | the activity or process of learning under instruction, esp. at a school for the young: As a child, I never liked school. |
| 7. | one's formal education: They plan to be married when he finishes school. |
| 8. | a building housing a school. |
| 9. | the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution: The entire school rose when the principal entered the auditorium. |
| 10. | a building, room, etc., in a university, set apart for the use of one of the faculties or for some particular purpose: the school of agriculture. |
| 11. | a particular faculty or department of a university having the right to recommend candidates for degrees, and usually beginning its program of instruction after the student has completed general education: medical school. |
| 12. | any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything. |
| 13. | the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.: the Platonic school of philosophy. |
| 14. | Art.
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| 15. | any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs. |
| 16. | Military, Navy. parts of close-order drill applying to the individual (school of the soldier), the squad (school of the squad), or the like. |
| 17. | Australian and New Zealand Informal. a group of people gathered together, esp. for gambling or drinking. |
| 18. | schools, Archaic. the faculties of a university. |
| 19. | Obsolete. the schoolmen in a medieval university. |
| 20. | of or connected with a school or schools. |
| 21. | Obsolete. of the schoolmen. |
| 22. | to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train. |
| 23. | Archaic. to reprimand. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME scole (n.), OE scōl < L schola < Gk schol
leisure employed in learning
bef. 900; ME scole (n.), OE scōl < L schola < Gk schol
leisure employed in learning Language Translation for : School
| Spanish: | escuela, colegio, | German: | die Schule, | Japanese: | 学校 |
school
2 [skool] –noun
–verb (used without object)
| 1. | a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together. |
| 2. | to form into, or go in, a school, as fish. |
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| school 1
(skōōl) Pronunciation Key
n.
tr.v. schooled, school·ing, schools
adj. Of or relating to school or education in schools: school supplies; a school dictionary. [Middle English scole, from Old English scōl, from Latin schola, scola, from Greek skholē; see segh- in Indo-European roots.] |
| school 2
(skōōl) Pronunciation Key
n. A large group of aquatic animals, especially fish, swimming together; a shoal. See Synonyms at flock1. intr.v. schooled, school·ing, schools To swim in or form into a school. [Middle English scole, from Middle Dutch; see skel-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
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school (1)
"place of instruction," O.E. scol, from L. schola, from Gk. skhole "school, lecture, discussion," also "leisure, spare time," originally "a holding back, a keeping clear," from skhein "to get" + -ole by analogy with bole "a throw," stole "outfit," etc. The original notion is "leisure," which passed to "otiose discussion," then "place for such." The PIE base is *segh- "to hold, hold in one's power, to have" (see scheme). The L. word was widely borrowed, cf. O.Fr. escole, Fr. école, Sp. escuela, It. scuola, O.H.G. scuola, Ger. Schule, Swed. skola, Gael. sgiol, Welsh ysgol, Rus. shkola. Replaced O.E. larhus "lore house." Meaning "students attending a school" is attested from c.1300; sense of "school building" is first recorded c.1590. Sense of "people united by a general similarity of principles and methods" is from 1612; hence school of thought (1864). The verb is attested from 1573. School of hard knocks "rough experience in life" is recorded from 1912 (in George Ade); to tell tales out of school "betray damaging secrets" is from 1546. Schoolmarm is attested from 1831, U.S. colloquial; used figuratively for "patronizingly and priggishly instructing" from 1887.
school (2)
"group of fish," c.1400, from M.Du. schole "group of fish or other animals," cognate with O.E. scolu "band, troop, school of fish," from W.Gmc. *skulo- (see shoal (2)).
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| school | |
noun | |
| 1. | an educational institution; "the school was founded in 1900" |
| 2. | a building where young people receive education; "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning" |
| 3. | the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?" |
| 4. | a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting" |
| 5. | the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school 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" |
| 6. | an educational institution's faculty and students; "the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game" |
| 7. | a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by" |
verb | |
| 1. | educate in or as if in a school; "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions" |
| 2. | teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: educate] |
| 3. | swim in or form a large group of fish; "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait" |
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School Creek, NE (township, FIPS 03544000)
Location: (40.647772, -97.872269)
Population (2000): 160 (62 housing units)
Area: 35.616428 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Parker School, MT (CDP, FIPS 56650)
Location: (48.250748, -109.725595)
Population (2000): 352 (82 housing units)
Area: 7.827944 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Starr School, MT (CDP, FIPS 70825)
Location: (48.587146, -113.128146)
Population (2000): 248 (67 housing units)
Area: 4.076771 sq mi (land), 0.005771 sq mi (water)
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School
School\, n. [For shoal a crowd; prob. confused with school for learning.] A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.School
School\, n. [OE. scole, AS. sc?lu, 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. --Acts xix. 9. 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. --Chaucer. 3. A session of an institution of instruction. How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day? --Shak. 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. --Macaulay. 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? --Buckminster. 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. --Jer. Taylor. 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. --A. S. Hardy. 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 accommodation for all children in their district. School committee, School board, an elected committee of citizens having charge and care of the public schools in any district, town, or city, and responsible for 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, or 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. --Shak. 2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train. It now remains for you to school your child, And ask why God's Anointed be reviled. --Dryden. 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. --Hawthorne.
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