School vs Home - What's the difference?
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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.
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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.
(lb) A dwelling.
#One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one’s family; also, one’s birthplace.
#* (William Tyndale), , xx, 10:
#*:And the disciples wet awaye agayne vnto their awne home .
#*1808 , (John Dryden), (Walter Scott) (editor), The Works of John Dryden :
#*:Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife.
#*1822 , (John Howard Payne), :
#*:Home'! '''home'''! sweet, sweet '''home'''! / There’s no place like '''home''', there’s no place like ' home .
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#*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
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#*:Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes , burying victims under rubble and sludge.
#The place where a person was raised; Childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
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#*:The rights listed in the UNCRC cover all areas of children's lives such as their right to have a home and their right to be educated.
#The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
#*1837 , (George Gordon Byron),
#*:He enter'd in the house—his home' no more, / For without hearts there is no ' home ;
#A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
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#(lb) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
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One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
*1863', (Nathaniel Hawthorne), ''
*:Visiting these famous localities, and a great many others, I hope that I do not compromise my American patriotism by acknowledging that I was often conscious of a fervent hereditary attachment to the native soil of our forefathers, and felt it to be our own Old Home .
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*:So this was my future home , I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
*1980 , (Peter Allen), song, (I Still Call Australia Home) :
*:I've been to cities that never close down / From New York to Rio and old London town / But no matter how far or how wide I roam / I still call Australia home .
The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
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*1849 , (Alfred Tennyson), :
*:Her eyes are homes of silent prayer, / Nor other thought her mind admits / But, he was dead, and there he sits, / And he that brought him back is there.
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*:Africa is home to so many premier-league diseases (such as AIDS, childhood diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis) that those in lower divisions are easily ignored.
(lb) A focus point.
# The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
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#(lb) Home plate.
#(lb) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
#(lb) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
Shortened form of homeboy .
*2008 , (Breaking Bad)'', ''Cancer Man :
*:Jesse Pinkman: Hey, homes . I'm joking! OK? I'm totally joking!
(usually with "in on") To seek or aim for something.
* 2008 July, Ewen Callaway, New Scientist :
Of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
To one’s home or country.
* 1863 , (Nathaniel Hawthorne),
Close; closely.
* 1625 , (Francis Bacon), dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral ,
* 1718 , (Robert South), Twelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, And upon ?everal Occasions ,
To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
* c.1603 , (William Shakespeare) The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice , Act 5, Scene 1,
In one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
(UK, soccer) Into the goal.
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(internet) To the home page.
As nouns the difference between school and home
is that 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 while home is (lb) a dwelling .As verbs the difference between school and home
is that 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) while home is (usually with "in on") to seek or aim for something.As an adjective home is
of or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.As an adverb home is
to one’s home or country.school
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.
Derived terms
* (l)See also
* college * kindergarten * polytechnic * university *home
English
Noun
(wikipedia home) (en noun)Don Juan:
Our Old '''Home: A Series of English Sketches :
Synonyms
* tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence * home baseDerived terms
* at home * at-homeness * bring home * broken home * drive home * funeral home * holiday home * homebuilder * home computer * Home Depot * home-grown * home help * home is where you hang your hat * home is where the heart is * home-made * home movie * homeowner * home ownership, homeownership * home plate * home run * Home Secretary * homesickness * home stretch * home teach * home team * motor home * nursing home * parental home (home)Verb
(hom)- The missile was able to home in on the target.
- Much like a heat-seeking missile, a new kind of particle homes in on the blood vessels that nourish aggressive cancers, before unleashing a cell-destroying drug.
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* home base * home brew * home economics * home farm * home front * home lot * home movie * home page * home port * home plate * home range * home rule * home ruler * home run * home stretch * home theater * home thrust * home videoAdverb
(-)- go home'', ''come home'', ''carry home .
Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches,
- He made no complaint of his ill-fortune, but only repeated in a quiet voice, with a pathos of which he was himself evidently unconscious, "I want to get home to Ninety-second Street, Philadelphia."
- I do now publish my Essays; which of all my other works have been most current : for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.
- How home the charge reaches us, has been made out by ?hewing with what high impudence ?ome among?t us defend sin, ...
- to drive a nail home'''''; ''to ram a cartridge '''home
- ... Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home : ...
- Everyone's gone to watch the game; there's nobody home .
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- Walker was penalised for a picking up a Gerry Taggart backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked.
- Click here to go home .