(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.
Seminary
Definition:
(n.) A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.
(n.) Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced.
(n.) A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.
(n.) Seminal state.
(n.) Fig.: A seed bed; a source.
(n.) A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
(a.) Belonging to seed; seminal.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1949, he graduated from the Coptic Orthodox Theological Seminary.
(2) A Catholic seminary, the Centro de Atendimento ao Migrante, has been receiving food and clothes donations after taking in 219 Ghanaians, two of them women, the centre’s director said.
(3) From St Bede's college , a Roman Catholic grammar school, he went to study for two years at Ushaw College in Durham, a seminary for trainee priests, and then at Birmingham Polytechnic, now Birmingham City University , where in 1976 he received a certificate in residential care of children and young people.
(4) He also attempted, less successfully, to expand his influence in the seminaries through greater regulation.” The jury is very out on how far last month’s election to the Experts Assembly will shape the succession.
(5) Scant progress has been made on regulating the country’s religious seminaries, one of the items on a much trumpeted “national action plan” drawn up in the wake of the APS killings.
(6) He was standing beneath the neoclassical October Palace – once a girls' seminary and later the HQ for Lenin's secret police – when a sniper shot him in the head.
(7) Robert Lauder, principal of the nearby Friends Seminary, said he could see why Sedwill saw similarities between Kabul and New York .
(8) Stickel, 40, said she was a teacher at a Mormon seminary in California when Prop 8 passed.
(9) Thousands of Israeli troops and police have joined in the hunt for the three seminary students – Gil-ad Sha'er and US-Israeli national Naftali Frankel, both 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19 – who disappeared while hitchhiking home from a yeshiva, or religious school, on the West Bank.
(10) It is for the defenders, not the invaders," Harnam Singh told the Guardian, sitting in an alcove near the shrine, surrounded by seminary students in white robes and orange or blue turbans.
(11) I give below a few instances where a large number of innocent people were killed by US drone strikes in Pakistani tribal areas: 13 January 2006 – Five women, five children and six men killed in Damadola, Bajaur tribal region; 30 October 2006 – 80 children killed in drone strike on a seminary in Chingai village; 23 June 2009 – 60 people killed in a drone strike on a funeral; 17 March 2011 – 41 innocent civilians killed in drone strikes on a tribal jirga called to settle a chromite mine dispute.
(12) Now Sadaullah does not go to school and gets only a religious education in a madrasa – Islamic seminary – in his village.
(13) Sexual attitudes and attitude changes in the AAPM&R-sponsered workshop were similar to those measured in participants in other workshops involving medical and seminary students and community members.
(14) Initially I was at a seminary and I was kicked out for asking too many questions.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pakistani seminary students gather outside Bin Laden’s final hiding place in Abbottabad, 2011.
(16) It is being built by volunteers led by Baba Harnam Singh, the head of the seminary Bhindranwale once led.
(17) There are really only seven passages in the Bible that refer directly to homosexual behaviour, and none of them are associated with Jesus.” That’s Davis Lose from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia .
(18) "It's hard to complete because they have more manpower from all their religious seminaries," said Mohammad Rashid from the Edhi Foundation in Islamabad.
(19) The tribunal, which prosecutes people accused of being involved in the Rwandan genocide, found that on at least four occasions in April and May 1994, Rukundo played an integral role in kidnapping and killing Tutsi refugees who sought shelter in a seminary.
(20) A Pakistani intelligence official claimed five people were killed by the early morning strike on a religious seminary in Hangu, a district bordering the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), where nearly all US drone strikes have taken place in the past.