Education vs Stud - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
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, title= (countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, either formally or informally.
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, title= A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
A group of such animals.
* Macaulay
* Sir W. Temple
An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
(colloquial) A sexually attractive male; also a lover in great demand.
A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
* Marlowe
* Milton
(jewelry) A small round earring.
(construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
(obsolete) A stem; a trunk.
* Spenser
(poker) A type of poker where an individual cannot throw cards away and some of her cards are exposed (also stud poker).
(engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
(engineering) A stud bolt.
An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
To set with ; to furnish with studs.
To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.
* 2012 , Antony Cooke, Dark Nebulae, Dark Lanes, and Dust Belts , page 82:
To set (something) over a surface at intervals.
* 2010 , Rose Levy Beranbaum, Rose's Heavenly Cakes :
As nouns the difference between education and stud
is that education is education while stud is a male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding or stud can be a small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.As a verb stud is
to set with ; to furnish with studs.education
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Alternative forms
* (generally jocular) educashun, educamationNoun
(en noun)Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
Derived terms
* all-round education * distance education * educational * educationist * general education * liberal education * mass education * primary education * secondary education * tertiary education * higher education * further education * edjamacationSee also
* training * schoolingAnagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsstud
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Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories.
- In the studs of Ireland, where care is taken, we see horses bred of excellent shape, vigour, and size.
Synonyms
* (sexually attractive male) he-man, hunk * (male animal) sireDerived terms
* studbook * studding * studly * stud puppyEtymology 2
(etyl) studu .Noun
(en noun)- a collar with studs
- A belt of straw and ivy buds, / With coral clasps and amber studs .
- Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossed with gems / And studs of pearl.
- She's wearing studs in her ears.
- Seest not this same hawthorn stud ?
Derived terms
* studdedVerb
(studd)- [S]eemingly countless young hot stars stud the entire huge central region[.]
- Stud the cake all over with chocolate chips, pointed ends in.