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School Of Thought

Definition: School Of Thought

School Of Thought

Noun

1. 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 Thought

Synonyms: doctrine (n), ism (n), philosophy (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: School Of Thought

Specialty definitions using "school of thought": descension theory, deterministic school of thoughtHOMERReal Programmers Don't Use Pascalstochastic school of thought. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: School Of Thought

SubjectTopicQuote

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)

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Expressions: School Of Thought

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: School Of Thought

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

school of thought

18
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Modern Translations: School Of Thought

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

   

Portuguese

  

escola de pensamento. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

точка зрения (angle, aspect, contention, notion, outlook, point of view, standpoint, view, view point, viewpoint, view-point). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Turkish

  

düşünce tarzı (attitude of mind, cast of mind, ideology, mentality, turn, turn of mind, way of thinking). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: School Of Thought

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

secta. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: School Of Thought

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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Alternative Orthography: School Of Thought


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 63 68 6F 6F 6C      4F 66      54 68 6F 75 67 68 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

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)

&#83 &#99 &#104 &#111 &#111 &#108 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#32 &#84 &#104 &#111 &#117 &#103 &#104 &#116

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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