Academy vs Faulty - What's the difference?
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(classical studies, usually, capitalized) The garden where Plato taught. Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
(classical studies, usually, capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
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A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
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A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
(obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
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A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
(UK, education) A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.
Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
(obsolete) At fault, to blame; guilty.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
In obsolete terms the difference between academy and faulty
is that academy is the knowledge disseminated in an Academy while faulty is at fault, to blame; guilty.As a noun academy
is the garden where Plato taught.As a proper noun Academy
is the school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught.As an adjective faulty is
having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.academy
English
Noun
(academies)- the military academy''' at West Point; a riding '''academy'''; the '''Academy of Music.
- the French Academy'''; the American '''Academy''' of Arts and Sciences; '''academies of literature and philology.
Synonyms
* (society of learned people) learned societyDerived terms
* academic * academical * academy figure * Academy of Sciences * laughing academy * national academyReferences
faulty
English
Adjective
(er)- They replaced the faulty wiring and it has worked fine ever since.
- I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument.
- Her faultie Handmayd, which that bale did breede, / Confest, how Philemon her wrought to chaunge her weede.