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A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica , cultivated in temperate climates.
* c. 1378 , (William Langland), Piers Plowman :
* 1815 , (Jane Austen), Emma :
* 2013 , John Vallins, The Guardian , 28 Oct 2013:
Any of various tree-borne fruits or vegetables especially considered as resembling an apple; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of other specific fruits such as (custard apple), (thorn apple) etc.
* 1658 , trans. Giambattista della Porta, Natural Magick , I.16:
* 1784 , (James Cook), A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean , II:
* 1825 , Theodric Romeyn Beck, Elements of Medical Jurisprudence , 2nd edition, p. 565:
The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.
* 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , Book X:
* 1985 , (Barry Reckord), The White Witch :
A tree of the genus Malus , especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
* 1913 , John Weathers, Commercial Gardening , p. 38:
* 2000 PA Thomas, Trees: Their Natural History , p. 227:
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* 2012 , Terri Reid, The Everything Guide to Living Off the Grid , p. 77:
The wood of the apple tree.
(in the plural, Cockney rhyming slang) Short for apples and pears , slang for stairs.
(baseball, slang, obsolete) The ball in baseball.
(informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.
A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
A multitude.
(US, Canada) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
(British) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
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, title= Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
(considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=3 * Jeremy Taylor
The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
* A. S. Hardy
To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school.)
To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
* 1998 , Leigh Jones, "National bar exam methods win in ADA regulation test," , April 13,
* {{quote-book, 2006, Steve Smith, Forever Red: Confessions Of A Cornhusker Football Fan, page=67
, passage=Two weeks later, the Cornhuskers put on their road whites again and promptly got schooled by miserable Iowa State in Ames. After the shocking loss
* 2007 , Peter David and Alvin Sargent, Spider-Man 3 , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 1416527214,
To control, or compose, one's expression.
As a proper noun apple
is a nickname for new york city, usually “the big apple”.As a noun school is
a group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales or school can be (us|canada) an institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.As a verb school is
(of fish) to form into, or travel in a school or school can be to educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).apple
English
(wikipedia apple)Alternative forms
* apl (Jamaican English)Noun
(en noun)- I prayed pieres to pulle adown an apple .
- Not that I had any doubt before – I have so often heard Mr. Woodhouse recommend a baked apple .
- Close by and under cover, I watched the juicing process. Apples were washed, then tipped, stalks and all, into the crusher and reduced to pulp.
- In Persia there grows a deadly tree, whose Apples are Poison, and present death.
- Otaheite […] is remarkable for producing great quantities of that delicious fruit we called apples , which are found in none of the others, except Eimeo.
- Hippomane mancinella. (Manchineel-tree.) Dr. Peysonnel relates that a soldier, who was a slave with the Turks, eat some of the apples of this tree, and was soon seized with a swelling and pain of the abdomen.
- Him by fraud I have seduced / From his Creator; and, the more to encrease / Your wonder, with an apple […].
- Woman ate the apple , and discovered sex, and lost all shame, and lift up her fig—leaf, and she must suffer the pains of hell. Monthly.
- If the grafted portion of an Apple or other tree were examined after one hundred years, the old cut surfaces would still be present, for mature or ripened wood, being dead, never unites.
- This allows a weak plant to benefit from the strong roots of another, or a vigorous tree (such as an apple ) to be kept small by growing on 'dwarfing rootstock'.
- Other fruit trees, like apples , need well-drained soil.
Derived terms
* Adam's apple * alligator apple * an apple a day, an apple a day keeps the doctor away * Apple * apples and oranges, apples to oranges (to compare ) * apples and pears * apple aphid, apple aphis * apple-bee * apple-berry * apple blight * apple blossom * apple borer * apple-box * apple brandy * apple brown tortrix * apple bud and leaf mite * apple bud moth * apple bud weevil * apple-bug * apple butter * apple cake * apple canker * applecart * apple charlotte * apple-cheeked * apple-cheese * apple cider * apple clearwing moth * apple core * apple-corer * apple-crook * apple crumble * appled * the apple doesn't fall far from the tree * apple domain * apple-domed * apple-dowdy * apple-drane, apple-drone * apple drops * apple dumpling * apple dumplin shop * apple-eating * apple-faced * apple-fallow * apple fly * apple fritter * apple fruit weevil * apple fruit rhynchites * apple-garth * apple geranium * apple grain aphid * apple-grass aphid * apple green, apple-green * apple-grey * apple-gum * apple head, applehead * apple-headed * apple ice wine * Apple Isle * apple-jack, applejack * apple jacks * apple jelly * apple jelly nodules * apple-john * apple juice * apple-knocker * apple leaf miner * appleless * apple liqueur * apple maggot * apple martini * apple midge * apple mint, applemint * apple-monger * apple-mose * apple-moss * apple-moth * apple nut * apple of Adam * apple of discord * apple of love * apple of Peru * apple of Sodom * apple of somebody's eye, apple of the eye * apple-oil * apple orchard * apple pandowdy * apple-pear * apple-peeler * apple-peru * apple pie * apple-plum * apple-polish * apple-polisher * apple-polishing * apple-pomice * apple potato bread * apple Punic * apple pygmy moth * apple root aphid * apple rust * apple rust mite * apples * apples and pears * apple sauce, applesauce * apple sawfly * apple scab * apple schnapps * apple-scoop * apple seed, appleseed * apple shell * apple small ermine moth * apple-snail * apple-slump * apple snow * apples of gold * apple of one's eye, apple of somebody's eye * Apples of the Hesperides * apple sourpuss * apple's queen * apple-squire * apple strudel * apple sucker * appletini * Appletise, Appletiser * apple tree * apple turnover * apple twig-cutter * (Apple Valley) * Apple Wassail * apple-water * apple wedger * apple weevil, apple blossom weevil * apple-wife * apple wine * apple-woman * applewood * apple worm * apple-wort * apple-yard * a rotten apple spoils the barrel * as sure as God made little apples, sure as God made little apples * bad apple * bake-apple, bakeapple, baked-apple * baking apple * Baldwin apple * balm-apple * balsam apple * bell apple * the Big Apple * bitter apple * blade apple * bob for apples * bobbing for apples * Bragi's apples * candied apple, candy apple * caramel apple * cashew apple * cedar apple * cedar-apple rust * cherry apple * chess-apple * cider-apple * common thorn apple * compare apples with apples * cooking apple * crab apple, crabapple * Criterion apple * custard apple * Dead-Sea apple * desert thorn-apple * dessert apple * devil's apple * devil's apples * earth-apple * eating apple * egg apple * elephant apple * golden apple * green apple aphid * hedge apple * hogapple * horseapple * how do you like them apples? * Indian apple * Jamaica apple * java apple * Jew's apple * John-apple * June-apple * kai apple * kangaroo apple * kei-apple * lady apple * the Little Apple * love apple * Macoun apple * mad apple * Malay apple * mamey apple * mammee apple * mandrake apple * May apple, mayapple * McIntosh * median apple * Micah Rood's apples * monkey apple * monkey apple tree * oak apple, oak-apple * Otaheite apple * pear-apple * Persian apple * Peruvian apple cactus * pineapple * pink fir apple * pitch apple * polish the apple * pond apple * potato apple, potato-apple * prairie apple * prairie crab apple * prickly custard apple * Punic apple * queen apple * road apple * road apples * rose apple * rotten apple * sage-apple * sea-apple * seven-year apple * sheld-apple, shell-apple * she'll be apples, she's apples * Snapple * snow apple * soap apple * sorb-apple * southern crab apple * star apple * stocking-apple * stone apple * sugar apple * sweet apple * taffy apple, toffee apple * thorn apple * toffee apple * tropical soda apple * vi-apple * vine apple * water apple * wax apple * Westbury apple * wild apple * wild balsam apple * wine apple * winter apple * wise apple * wolf apple * wood apple * woolly apple aphidSee also
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English
(wikipedia school)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at .Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.
Synonyms
* (fish) shoalEtymology 2
From (etyl) scole, from (etyl) . Influenced in some senses by (etyl) .Noun
(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'
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- Let no man be less confident in his faith by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians.
- He was a gentleman of the old school .
- His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools .
Synonyms
* (institution dedicated to teaching and learning) academy, college, university * (organizational unity within an educational institution) college, department, further education college, institute * (group of fish) shoalHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* boarding school * comprehensive school * cram school * elementary school * grade school * grammar school * high school * infant school * junior high school * junior school * magnet school * middle school * nursery school * old school * prep school * primary school * private school * public school * school age * schoolbag * school band * schoolbook * schoolboy * schoolchild * school day * schoolfellow * schoolfriend * schoolgirl * school holidays * schoolma'am * schoolmaster * schoolmistress * school night * school’s out * schoolteacher * schoolwork * secondary modern school * secondary school * state school * Sunday school * tell tales out of school * upper schoolVerb
(en verb)- Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.
- A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court.
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- "You again?" Sandman demanded. "I guess you didn't learn your lesson."
- "This time I'm gonna school you."
- She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.