school

I

n.

educational institution

1) to direct; operate a school

2) to attend, go to school; to enter (a) school (they go to a good school)

3) to accredit a school

4) to finish, graduate from (AE), leave (BE) school (she left school and went to university)

5) to drop out of, leave, quit school

6) (by level) an elementary, grade (AE), grammar (AE), primary; first (BE); infant (BE); junior (BE); nursery school

7) (by level) a junior high (AE); middle school

8) (by level) a comprehensive (BE), high (esp. AE), secondary; grammar (BE); public (BE) ('private secondary'); secondary modern (BE; now rare) school

9) (by level) a graduate, postgraduate (esp. BE); undergraduate school

10) (by subject) an art; ballet; beauty; business; dancing; divinity; driving; fencing; military; naval; riding; secretarial; technical; trade, vocational school

11) (by type) a boarding; church; consolidated; correspondence; council (BE; now rare), public (AE), state (BE); day; evening; finishing; magnet (AE); night; parochial; preparatory; private; reform (AE; now rare); religious; segregated; summer; Sunday school

12) (at a university; see also faculty1) a dental; engineering; law; medical; nursing (AE; CE has school of nursing); professional school

13) at, in (a) school (she works at/in a school; their son is still at school; AE also has: their son is still in school)

14) a school for (a school for gifted children)

15) (misc.) to be kept after school; late for school

group of persons holding similar views

16) an avant-garde school of artists; a radical school of economists

17) a school of opinion, thought

18) (misc.) of the old school ('adhering to established traditions')

misc.

19) the school of hard knocks ('life with all its difficulties')

USAGE NOTE: One says to attend school and to go to school, but with a modifier an article must be included--to attend a good school, to go to a good school, they go to the school of their choice. Note that one can say either they go to a school in California or they go to school in California, (see the Usage Note for university)

II

v.

1) to school thoroughly

2) (D; tr.) to school in (to school smb. in the martial arts)

3) (H) they were schooled to obey instantaneously

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[skuːl]

Sunday school

a radical school of economists

ballet

beauty

business

church: consolidated

correspondence

dancing

day

divinity

driving

engineering

evening

fencing

finishing

go to school

late for school

law: medical

leave

middle school

military

naval

night

nursery school

operate a school

parochial

preparatory

primary

private

professional school

quit school

religious

riding

secondary

secondary modem (BE; now rare) school

secretarial

segregated

summer

technical

thought

trade

undergraduate school

vocational school

public ('private secondary'; BE)

grade (AE)

graduate from (AE)

magnet (AE)

public (AE)

nursing (AE: CE has school of nursing)

reform (AE; now rare)

first (BE)

grammar (BE)

infant (BE)

junior (BE)

state (BE)

council (BE; now rare)

high (esp. AE)

postgraduate (esp. BE)

leave (BE) school (she left school and went to university)

to enter (a) school (they go to a good school)

(H) they were schooled to obey instantaneously

(at a university; see also faculty 1) a dental

(by level) a graduate

(by level) an elementary

(by subject) an art

(by type) a boarding

(misc.) to be kept after school

['educational institution'] to direct

['group of persons holding similar views'] an avant-garde school of artists

a school of opinion

to accredit a school

to attend

to drop out of

to finish

to school thoroughly

(misc.) of the old school ('adhering to established traditions')

(by level) a junior high (AE)

(by level) a comprehensive (BE)

a schoolfor (a school for gifted children)

at. in (a) school (she works at/in a school; their son is still at school; AE also has: their son is still in school)

(D;tr.) to school in (to school smb. in the martial arts)