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Definition: School Of Thought |
School Of ThoughtNoun1. A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: School Of ThoughtSynonyms: doctrine (n), ism (n), philosophy (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: School Of Thought |
| Specialty definitions using "school of thought": descension theory, deterministic school of thought ♦ HOMER ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ stochastic school of thought. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This school of thought maintains that by the time he is 10 or 11 years old, the child can be told that his cells differ slightly from those of other people. (references) | |
One school of thought holds that the best course is to go on slowly, waiting at least 1 year before telling anyone-grandparents included-about the child's extra chromosome. (references) | ||
According to this school of thought, pancreatic surgery has serious complications, so it should not be attempted unless it will cure a tumor that is secreting too much hormone. (references) | ||
Business | Yet another school of thought is that the Internet will offer a means by which the distribution model itself can be done away with. Dell's unprecedented success in its direct model of supplying a PC from the manufacturer to the user is a case in point. (references) | |
These devices have helped achieve the 26 percent reduction in vehicle crime that has taken place over the last five years, although another school of thought points to the observation in the proceeding paragraph as a contributory cause, too. A greater use of CCTV in parking lots and better street lighting has also contributed to the decline in crime related to parked vehicles. (references) | ||
Economic History | Taiwan | Confucianism also is an honored school of thought and ethical code. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "school of thought": deterministic school of thought ♦ stochastic school of thought. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
school of thought | 18 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "school of thought"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 學派 (common studies; school of thought). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | myšlenkový smìr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | école stochastique (stochastic school of thought), école déterministe (deterministic school of thought). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | richtung (departure, direction, drift, hand, movement, quarter, route, tack, tendency, trend, way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scuola di pensiero stocastica (stochastic school of thought), scuola di pensiero deterministica (deterministic school of thought). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 無派 (belonging to no party or school of thought), 学風 (academic school of thought, academic traditions, method of study). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | がくふう (academic school of thought, academic traditions, method of study), むは (belonging to no party or school of thought). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lught tuarym. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oolschay ofay oughtthay escola de pensamento. (various references) точка зрения (angle, aspect, contention, notion, outlook, point of view, standpoint, view, view point, viewpoint, view-point). (various references) opinión (belief, belief measure, contention, exegesis, feeling, image, issue, judgement, judgment, mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, position, say so, sense, sentiment, verdict, view), escuela filosófica. (various references) düşünce tarzı (attitude of mind, cast of mind, ideology, mentality, turn, turn of mind, way of thinking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | secta. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-f-g-h-h-h-l-o-o-o-o-s-t-t-u" | |
-5 letters: footcloths. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 68 6F 6F 6C      4F 66      54 68 6F 75 67 68 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101000 01101111 01101111 01101100 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01010100 01101000 01101111 01110101 01100111 01101000 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c h o o l   O f   T h o u g h t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0068 006F 006F 006C      004F 0066      0054 0068 006F 0075 0067 0068 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53697481817824972254748187737486 |
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