单词 | school |
释义 | school school1 —schoolable, adj. —schoolless, adj. —schoollike, adj. /skoohl/, n. 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. a. a group of artists, as painters, writers, or musicians, whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence: the modern school; the Florentine school. b. the art and artists of a geographical location considered independently of stylistic similarity: the French school. 15. any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs. 16. Mil. , 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. Obs. the schoolmen in a medieval university. adj. 20. of or connected with a school or schools. 21. Obs. of the schoolmen. v.t. 22. to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train. 23. Archaic. to reprimand. [bef. 900; ME scole (n.), OE scol < L schola < Gk scholé leisure employed in learning] school2 /skoohl/, n. 1. a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together. v.i. 2. to form into, or go in, a school, as fish. [1350-1400; ME schol(e) < D school; c. OE scolu troop; see SHOAL2] |
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