Exercise vs Schooling - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between exercise and schooling

is that exercise is to set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to while schooling is compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.

As nouns the difference between exercise and schooling

is that exercise is any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability while schooling is training or instruction.

As verbs the difference between exercise and schooling

is that exercise is to exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop while schooling is present participle of lang=en.

exercise

English

Noun

(en noun)

Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:desire of knightly exercise

*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

*:an exercise of the eyes and memory

Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.

*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise , yet well content with the world's apportionment.

A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.

*(Thomas Jefferson) (1743-1826)

*:exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature

* (1809-1892)

*:O we will walk this world, / Yoked in all exercise of noble end.

The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.

*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

*:Lewis refused even those of the church of Englandthe public exercise of their religion.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:to draw him from his holy exercise

(lb) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Patience is more oft the exercise / Of saints, the trial of their fortitude.

Alternative forms

* exercice * excercise

Derived terms

* exercise book * exercise machine * five-finger exercise * floor exercise * military exercise

Verb

(exercis)

To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.

To perform physical activity for health or training.

To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.

*Bible, (w) xxii. 29

*:The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery.

To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.

*(and other bibliographic particulars for citation) (John Milton)

*:Where pain of unextinguishable fire / Must exercise us without hope of end.

(lb) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.

*Bible, (w) xxiv. 16

*:Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence.

*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.

External links

* * 1000 English basic words

schooling

English

Noun

Training or instruction.

Institutional education; attendance of school.

I never let my schooling interfere with my education.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)

, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}

(dressage) The training of a horse at dressage.

(obsolete) Discipline; reproof; reprimand.

(Sir Walter Scott)

(obsolete) Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.

Verb

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