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| Domain | Definition |
Census | Nursery. A nursery school is defined as a group or class that is organized to provide educational experiences for children during the year or years preceding kindergarten. It includes instruction as an important and integral phase of its program of child care. Private homes in which essentially custodial care is provided are not considered nursery schools. Children attending nursery school are classified as attending during either part of the day or the full day. Part-day attendance refers to those who attend either in the morning or in the afternoon, but not both. Full-day attendance refers to those who attend in both the morning and the afternoon. Children enrolled in Head Start programs or similar programs sponsored by local agencies to provide preschool education to young children are counted under nursery school. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host;crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host; (multitude); populousness. |
Belief | System of opinions, school, doctrine, articles, canons; article of faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith; tenets, credenda, creed; thirty-nine articles; (orthodoxy) a; catechism; assent; propaganda; (teaching). |
Impulse | One's old way, old school, veteris vestigia flammae; laudator temporis acti. |
Learning | Go to school, go to college, go to the university; matriculate; serve an (or one's) apprenticeship, serve one's time; learn one's trade; be informed; be taught. |
Drop out, leave school, quit school; graduate; transfer; take a leave. | |
Oldness | Antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete; out of date, out of fashion, out of it; stale, old-fashioned, behind the age; old-world; exploded; gone out, gone by; passe, run out; senile; time worn; crumbling; (deteriorated); secondhand. |
Painting | School, style; the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture; ornamental art. |
School | Noun: school, academy, university, alma mater, college, seminary, Lyceum; institution; palaestra, Gymnasium, class, seminar. |
Day school, boarding school, preparatory school, primary school, infant school, dame's school, grammar school, middle class school, Board school, denominational school, National school, British and Foreign school, collegiate school, art school, continuation school, convent school, County Council school, government school, grant-in-aid school, high school, higher grade school, military school, missionary school, naval school, naval academy, state-aided school, technical school, voluntary school, school; school of art; kindergarten, nursery, creche, reformatory. | |
Teaching | Verb: teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor; cram, prime, coach; enlighten; (inform). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | It's like kindergarten, school, university, black hole (Peter's Friends; writing credit: Martin Bergmann and Rita Rudner.) I was a lesbian once at school, but only for about fifteen minutes (Four Weddings and a Funeral; writing credit: Richard Curtis) One day, I'm a sophomore in high school, I bring home a report card, it's almost all A's so I go to the old man, ask him if I can take the car out as sort of a victory drive (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass) I've had it with this school, Skinner (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) If you were dancing with your wife, or girlfriend you knew in high school, and you said to her, Darling, they're playing our song, do you know what they'd be playing (10; writing credit: Blake Edwards) | |
Lyrics | Suspended from school, scared ta go home (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac) They never tell you so in school, I wanna say it again, (Everybody Plays the Fool; performing artist: Aaron Neville) And yes I will be present on the first day of school, (Ms. Jackson; performing artist: Outkast) Besides, I ain't no fool, I'm a goin' to school, and I'm (Draft Dodger Rag; performing artist: Phil Ochs) Just barely got out of school, came from the edge of town (18 And Life; performing artist: Skid Row) | |
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![]() | At a Hillsborough County school, student volunteers split donor plants and install them into rooting trays for use in a new wetland nursery. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | At a St. Petersburg school, student volunteers mix beach sand, peat moss, and vermiculite to plant nursery plants. Once the plants are established, Tampa Baywatch staff visit regularly and the students monitor the health of the plants once a week and measure salinity and PH in the ponds. This nursery was built on Feb. 24, 1998, donor plants taken on the 25th and planted on the 26th. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | The NF-16D VISTA will give the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., flexibility by providing one aircraft that can play the role of several fighters. It also provides students an opportunity to learn how to test future integra. | ![]() | Plant physiologist George Yelenosky records data as Kim Ruhle Paschall, a science teacher at Orlando's Southwest Middle School, measures citrus fruit diameters. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Rob Flynn.. |
![]() | Caption: Students of the Hailey Public School, Hailey, Idaho, with an Edison Phonograph; Hailey, Id; October 17, 1894; {29.700/22} (jpg). | ![]() | The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas - Basic Science Building. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | [Interior view- auditorium of former Italian School, Casablanca, French Morocco]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Enjoy a day in the field with dogs and shotguns, during a break in their training at the Yeoman Training School, Cedar Falls, Iowa, circa 1944-45. Shotguns include one pump action and one semi-automatic model. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Portrait by Mrs. H.E. Ogden Campbell, a New York artist, who presented it to the Midshipmen's School, Johnson Hall, N.Y., 25 April 1944. Ensign Jones graduated with the first Midshipmen class to be trained aboard USS Prairie State (IX-15) in 1940. He was killed in action on board USS California (BB-44) during the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his conduct at that time. He is depicted here wearing that and other medals awarded posthumously. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Father walking son from house on his first day of school, as mother and daughter watch from doorway. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. |
| Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that. | |
Emo Philips | Back in high school, my buddies tried to put the make on anything that moved. I told them, "Why limit yourselves?" |
Heinrich Heine | Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. |
Robert Burton | [Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Sismondi was the head of this school, not only in France but also in England. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In the same building with the bindery, there was a school, where she sent her little boy, seven years old. |
Something Wicked This Way Comes | Ray Bradbury | Dad's voice was a midnight school, teaching deep fathom hours, and the subject was life |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | My son Johnny, named so after his uncle, was at the Grammar School, and a towardly child |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Children usually can go to school, mix with playmates, and take part in sports. (references) | |
People miss work or school, go to the hospital, or even die because of their asthma. (references) | ||
At home and at school, they have opportunities to overhear discussions about their condition. (references) | ||
Business | These education and advocacy efforts have also enlisted prominent Japanese academics, including Dr. Okada, University of Osaka Medical School, probably the leading authority on HIT in Japan. (references) | |
Although enrollment drops off dramatically after primary school, it is estimated that nearly 2 million Vietnamese participate in continuing education such as English language and computer training programs once their formal education is complete. (references) | ||
Children | Bulgaria | Fewer girls than boys attended school, especially among minority groups. (references) |
Turkey | The literacy rate for boys, most of whom complete primary school, is higher. (references) | |
Tuvalu | In March 2000, a fire destroyed a girls' boarding school, with 19 fatalities. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Syria | Jews have a separate primary school, which offers religious instruction in Judaism, in addition to traditional subjects. (references) |
Ukraine | While the country's Jewish leaders support the teaching of ethics and civics in school, they insist on a nonsectarian approach to this training. (references) | |
Venezuela | These supervisors would have powers to inspect any school, public or private, and to remove any instructor found deficient in any way, including ideologically. (references) | |
Economic History | Barbados | Sir Hugh Wooding Law School, Legal Education Certificate. (references) |
Latvia | By 1989, 60% of the adult populace had finished high school, and 12% had completed college. (references) | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Education: Mandatory 8 years of primary school, 4 years in secondary school, and 4 years in universities and academies. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | The guerrillas also burned 20 homes, a school, and a church. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | Wahba, who worked at an UNRWA school, had been detained 3 days earlier on suspicion of collaborating with Israel. (references) | |
Macedonia | In the ethnic-Albanian village of Lukare, police destroyed or badly damaged 18 of 24 homes, the local school, and the local electrical infrastructure. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Dominica | There is a significant Carib Indian population, estimated at 3,400 persons, of a total population of 72,000. Most live on a 3,783-acre reservation created in 1903 and expanded in 1997. School, water, and health facilities available on the Carib reservation are rudimentary but similar to those available to other rural citizens. (references) |
Minorities | Syria | They also encounter difficulties in enrolling their children in school, and in some cases, in registering their marriages. (references) |
Dominican Republic | Even when permitted to attend primary school, it is rare that the children of Haitian parents progress beyond sixth grade. (references) | |
Political Economy | Afghanistan | Although girls were prohibited formally from attending school, some organizations clandestinely operated elementary schools and home schools with girls in attendance. (references) |
COLOMBIA | Labor leaders and NGO's reported that 105 union members were killed during 2000 and 47 union members were killed during the first eight months of 2001. According to the National Labor School, more than 2,200 union members have been murdered since 1986. (references) | |
OMAN | There is no personal income tax in Oman, and with the exception of modest fees for medical visits, Omanis continue to enjoy free medical care and free education, including vocational school, and post-secondary and higher education (for a few, selected through examinations). (references) | |
Travel | Finland | After completing comprehensive school, students may attend high schools for three years or receive vocational education. (references) |
Mexico | Greengates School, a co-educational school based on the British system, with 1,050 students from 42 different nationalities (K-12). (references) | |
Pakistan | The Karachi International School and the significantly smaller Lahore American School, both with a majority Pakistani student body, also offer K-12 classes. (references) | |
Women | Afghanistan | Girls formally were prohibited from attending school, apart from instruction provided in mosques, which was mainly religious in content. (references) |
Pakistan | A survey of rural females by the National Institute of Psychology found that 42 percent of parents cited "no financial benefit" as the reason they kept their daughters from attending school, and sent their sons instead. (references) | |
Worker Rights | China | Local residents credibly claimed that fireworks, assembled by pupils in the school, caused the explosion. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Linda Fairstein | Long before I went to law school, and I started by doing a nonfiction book about the reforms and the work we had done, but this was a dream I'd had. And so, I started doing the fiction. This is the fifth book in the series. |
Regis Philbin | I was average. I was very average. Average in high school, average in college. I wanted to do this. I wanted to be in this business, didn't know exactly what. |
Rich Cohen | We were together every day. We did ditched school, we went to the Cub's games, we experimented with drinking, with drugs, which is like a horrible thing for my parents to find out. |
Rosie O'Donnell | Well, I was a non-sexually active teenager in any capacity. I was very popular in high school, I was the homecoming queen, I was senior class president. I was not at all thinking of dating in any way, shape or form. |
Rush Limbaugh | People don't know the truth about nuclear power because they get their schooling on environmental issues, not from the school, but from movies like The China Syndrome and Erin Brockovich. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Our private-sector initiatives task force is seeking out successful community models of school, church, business, union, foundation and civic programs that help community needs. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Chicago stopped social promotion, and started mandatory summer school, to help students who are behind to catch up. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Schools that don't improve will begin to face consequences, such as that parents can move their child to another public school, or hire a tutor, or any other academic help. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "SCHOOL,"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Japanese Kanji | 保母 , 保姆 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ほぼ (almost, approximately, roughly). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ool,schay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters ",-c-h-l-o-o-s" | |
-1 letter: cholos, school. | |
-2 letters: cholo, cohos, cools, lochs, locos, shool. | |
-3 letters: coho, cols, cool, coos, cosh, hols, loch, loco, loos, oohs, shoo, solo. | |
-4 letters: col, coo, cos, loo, oho, ohs, ooh, sol. | |
-5 letters: ho, lo, oh, os, sh, so. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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