(n.) 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.
(n.) A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.
(n.) A session of an institution of instruction.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
(n.) An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
(v. t.) To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
(v. t.) To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only other evidence of Kopachi's existence is the primary school near the memorial.
(2) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
(3) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(4) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(5) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(6) Research efforts in the Swedish schools are of high quality and are remarkably prolific.
(7) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(8) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(9) The 36-year-old teacher at an inner-city London primary school earns £40,000 a year and contributes £216 a month to her pension.
(10) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(11) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
(12) After a due process hearing, the child was placed in a school for autistic children.
(13) Problems associated with school-based clinics include vehement opposition to sex education, financing, and the sheer magnitude of the adolescents' health needs.
(14) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(15) Measurements of ChE concentration and ChE enzymatic activity by two different assay kits in 63 serum samples taken in the Clinical Laboratory of the Jichi Medical School correlated closely.
(16) When war broke out, the nine-year-old Arden was sent away to board at a school near York and then on Sedbergh School in Cumbria.
(17) Relative to the perceived severity of their asthma, both Maoris and Pacific Islanders lost more time from work or school and used hospital services more than European asthmatics using A & E. The increased use of A & E by Maori and Pacific Island asthmatics seemed not attributable to the intrinsic severity of their asthma and was better explained by ethnic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.
(18) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
(19) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(20) A study was conducted to determine the usefulness of self-screening of blood pressure in families as part of a school health care programme, and to study the relationship between BP and sodium excretion in school children.
Schoolgirl
Definition:
(n.) A girl belonging to, or attending, a school.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to X2 (Chi-square) test and asymmetry coefficient (beta 1) it was pointed out that the distribution of menarche in examined schoolgirls was normal and symmetric.
(2) Residual urine volume (RUV) has been measured in 70 schoolgirls with asymptomatic bacteriuria using 121I-hippuran.
(3) Nigeria is “inching closer” to securing the release of 219 schoolgirls kidnapped six months ago, despite fears that reports of a ceasefire with the Islamist militant group Boko Haram have not come to fruition.
(4) Nicola Tappenden was a 14-year-old schoolgirl, living in Croydon, when a psychic told her she'd grow up to do something very special.
(5) The stage-struck schoolgirl eventually was able (in a very unforeseen form) to return to her early love - of drama - and combine it with the later love - of her people, white and black.
(6) They said their leaders are being killed and they no longer want to fight but they are afraid of going back to their communities.” The schoolgirls were snatched by Boko Haram militants in the north-eastern Nigerian village of Chibok in April, sparking international condemnation and the Bring Back Our Girls campaign.
(7) Boko Haram attracted international condemnation for the mass abductions in April of more than 200 schoolgirls, and is blamed for this week's abductions of another 91 people – 31 boys and 60 girls and women.
(8) A survey of 204 south-Asian and 355 Caucasian schoolgirls was conducted in Bradford using the EAT-26 and the BSQ.
(9) It was the Guardian’s disclosure of the hacking of the missing Surrey schoolgirl’s phone that finally broke open the scandal.
(10) They drafted in schoolgirls to talk about education funding and Cumberbatch, representing Equity, to defend the arts, to demonstrate the beginnings of a broad coalition against the cuts.
(11) The incident sparked uproar, but the circumstances which led the schoolgirls to trek outside at night are not unusual in India .
(12) I’m not sure what my 14–year–old, Catholic schoolgirl self would have thought if she’d been given a preview of the past week’s news, and the role her teenage sweetheart played in making it happen.
(13) The Bethnal Green schoolgirls, however, appeared to vanish into the abyss after they landed in Turkey, never starring in propaganda videos or demonstrating what they were doing there.
(14) The 36-year-old was taken for treatment after he was attacked at Frankland prison in County Durham, where he is serving two life sentences for murdering schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
(15) Kerry, a former Massachusetts senator and losing 2004 presidential candidate, has presided since then over the Obama administration's responses to crises in Syria and Ukraine and the current situation in Nigeria, in which the militant group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls.
(16) Twenty-four more Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Islamic extremists have escaped but 85 are still missing, an education official said on Friday.
(17) A senior aide to the president, Goodluck Jonathan, claimed the extremist group, which has been seeking to create an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, had agreed to release the 219 schoolgirls.
(18) The report said that it would not draw conclusions on evidence to the committee about Milly Dowler, the murdered schoolgirl whose voicemail messages were hacked by the News of the World in 2002, because of an ongoing police investigation into Brooks.
(19) Regional data showed a significant negative correlation between the proportion of pregnant women aged 15-19 who were susceptible to the virus and rate of uptake of vaccine in 14 year old schoolgirls.
(20) As a portrait of modern society, it is startlingly astute – a scene with two schoolgirls arguing at a bus stop is uncanny in its depiction of south London slang, and speech mannerisms, and all the more notable because this is so rarely done accurately and with empathy.