School

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  • noun. A large group of aquatic animals, especially fish, swimming together; a shoal.
  • intransitive verb. To swim in or form into a school.
  • noun. An institution for the instruction of children or people under college age.
  • noun. An institution for instruction in a skill or business.
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  • noun. A college or university.
  • noun. An institution within or associated with a college or university that gives instruction in a specialized field and recommends candidates for degrees.
  • noun. A division of an educational institution constituting several grades or classes.
  • noun. The student body of an educational institution.
  • noun. The building or group of buildings housing an educational institution.
  • noun. The process of being educated formally, especially education constituting a planned series of courses over a number of years.
  • noun. A session of instruction.
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  • noun. A group of people, especially philosophers, artists, or writers, whose thought, work, or style demonstrates a common origin or influence or unifying belief.
  • noun. A group of people distinguished by similar manners, customs, or opinions.
  • noun. Close-order drill instructions or exercises for military units or personnel.
  • noun. A group of people gathered together for gambling.
  • transitive verb. To educate in or as if in a school.
  • transitive verb. To train or discipline: synonym: teach.
  • adjective. Of or relating to school or education in schools.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To educate, instruct, or train in or as in school; teach.
  • To teach, train, or discipline with the thoroughness and strictness of a school; discipline thoroughly; bring under control.
  • To discipline or take to task; reprove; chide and admonish.
  • To form or go in a school, as fish; run together; shoal.
  • To go or move in a body; troop.
  • noun. A place where instruction is given in arts, science, languages, or any species of learning; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a school-house; a school-room.
  • noun. The body of pupils collectively in any place of instruction, and under the direction of one or more teachers: as, to have a large school.
  • noun. A session of an institution of instruction; exercises of instruction; school-work.
  • noun. In the middle ages, a lecture-room, especially in a university or college; hence, the body of masters and students in a university; a university or college; in the plural, the schools, the scholastics generally.
  • noun. A large room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors take place.
  • noun. The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine or accept the same teachings or principles; those who exhibit in practice the same general methods, principles, tastes, or intellectual bent; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, art, etc.; a system of doctrine as delivered by particular teachers: as, the Socratic school; the painters of the Italian school; the musicians of the German school; economists of the laisser-faire school.
  • noun. A system or state of matters prevalent at a certain time; a specific method or cast of thought; a particular system of training with special reference to conduct and manners: as, a gentleman of the old school; specifically, the manifestation or the results of the coöperation of a school (in sense 6): as, paintings of the Italian Renaissance school.
  • noun. Any place or means of discipline, improvement, instruction, or training.
  • noun. In music, a book or treatise designed to teach some particular branch of the art: as, A.'s violin school.
  • Pertaining or relating to a school or to education: as, a school custom.
  • Pertaining to the schoolmen; scholastic: as, school philosophy (scholasticism).
  • noun. A medical sect, followers of Stahl, so called because of the doctrine that all vital phenomena proceed from the action of an internal force. See animism, 2.
  • noun. A school maintained in a community by taxes levied for the purpose.
  • noun. A large number of fish, or porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together; a company.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training.
  • noun. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children.
  • noun. A session of an institution of instruction.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
  • noun. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
  • noun. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline.
  • noun. etc. See under Boarding, Common, District, etc.
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  • Word Usage
    "Moreover, the Italian school was not strictly a national ˜school,™ but rather a working style and a methodology, principally based in Italy, but with representatives to be found elsewhere in the world."
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