(n.) A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.
(n.) An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.
(n.) A place of training; a school.
(n.) A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.
(n.) A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
(2) The payments were for services ranging from "project management" to "HR consultancy", according to the academy chain's company accounts.
(3) But he added: “My concern is that if we are to see a rapid move to a world in which all schools must become academies then there will be an enormous challenge to ensure that schools remain properly rooted in their local communities and accountable to parents.” A spokeswoman for the Department for Education rejected all the criticisms.
(4) A teaching union has questioned appointment of a trustee of Britain's largest academy chain group as chairman of the schools regulator Ofsted , in what was a surprise announcement meant to calm some of the internal conflicts within the coalition.
(5) Now serves as director of football and director of the academy at Crewe.
(6) Do get yourself elected as a governor If you’re lucky, your school hasn’t yet been swallowed up by a private academy chain, and so its governing body still has ultimate power, and the headteacher is accountable to it.
(7) In contrast, the 2009 report, "Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment" , published by the New York Academy of Sciences, comes to a very different conclusion.
(8) The material comprised liver and kidney samples collected from inhabitants of the city of Białystok and of its vicinity during anatomopathological examination at the Department of Pathological Anatomy, Medical Academy in Białystok.
(9) Good grades in English are also crucial for schools, which face being closed or converted into academies if results fall below government targets.
(10) He is an academy product and truthfully we are, and me above all, happy to have him with us.
(11) Pulis says the 20-year-old “just hasn’t been at that level to play games, having come from academy football”.
(12) 760 patients suffering from acute pulmonary oedema were treated between 1980 and 1986 at the Institute of Anaesthesiology of the Medical Academy in Wroclaw.
(13) "Only one bullet that we're aware of hit, the second Australian returned fire and critically injured and possibly killed the Afghani," said Lieutenant General Rhys Jones, chief of the New Zealand Defence Force, who identified his injured soldier as an instructor from the officer academy.
(14) A sample of 558 pediatricians selected at random and 385 members of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Section on Adolescent Health (SAH) completed a 41-item questionnaire.
(15) The multi-agency review of the circumstances leading up to the killing of the 16-year-old, who was fatally stabbed at Cults Academy, one of Scotland’s highest performing state schools, on 28 October 2015, also concluded that his death could have been avoided had those who knew that his killer carried weapons in school reported this to staff.
(16) Construction of the academy was delayed over a dispute between the Raising Malawi charity and villagers who claimed they were not adequately compensated for land.
(17) The victories, at the Sony Radio Academy Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London, will be a boost for protestors hoping to persuade the BBC that the stations should be saved.
(18) "The Academy and Medical Royal Colleges are not able to support the bill as it currently stands.
(19) Very few have been through a police academy and most are entirely untrained.
(20) The Liberal Democrats fought the 2010 election in explicit opposition to free schools and academy plans.
Learned
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Learn
(a.) Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory.
Example Sentences:
(1) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
(2) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(3) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(4) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(5) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
(6) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
(7) Beyond this, physicians learn from specific problems that arise in practice.
(8) Its articulation with content and process, the teaching strategies and learning outcomes for both students and faculty are discussed.
(9) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
(10) 5) Raise the adult learning grant from £30 to £45 a week.
(11) This paper provides a description of the cerebellar-vestibular-determined (CV) neurological and electronystagmographic (ENG) parameters characterizing 4,000 patients with learning disabilities.
(12) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(13) Mice with mutations in four nonreceptor tyrosine kinase genes, fyn, src, yes, and abl, were used to study the role of these kinases in long-term potentiation (LTP) and in the relation of LTP to spatial learning and memory.
(14) Tests in which the size of the landmark was altered from that used in training suggest that distance is not learned solely in terms of the apparent size of the landmark as seen from the goal.
(15) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
(16) Learning disabled children made more errors at all ages than normal children.
(17) The organisation initially focused on education, funding the Indian company BYJU’s, which helps students learn maths and science, and the Nigerian company Andela, which trains African software developers.
(18) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
(19) It is suggested that children may learn enough to satisfy their parents' expectations by this age or grade.
(20) Before discharge, subjects rated six out of the seven content areas as "important" for learning.