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As nouns the difference between school and recitation

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 recitation is the act of publicly reciting something previously memorized.

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).

school

English

(wikipedia school)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at .

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
  • The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.
  • A multitude.
  • Synonyms
    * (fish) shoal

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of fish) To form into, or travel in a school.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) scole, from (etyl) . Influenced in some senses by (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools'
  • 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 citation , passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school , were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.}}
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • Let no man be less confident in his faith by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians.
  • 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.
  • He was a gentleman of the old school .
  • * A. S. Hardy
  • 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) shoal
    Hyponyms
    * See also
    Derived 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 school

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school.)
  • Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.
  • To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
  • * 1998 , Leigh Jones, "National bar exam methods win in ADA regulation test," , April 13,
  • A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court.
  • * {{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, pg. 216,
  • "You again?" Sandman demanded. "I guess you didn't learn your lesson."
    "This time I'm gonna school you."
  • To control, or compose, one's expression.
  • She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    See also

    * college * kindergarten * polytechnic * university *

    recitation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized.
  • The material recited.
  • A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel lecture.
  • *1882 , Wayside Gleanings for Leisure Moments , , page 20,
  • *:I shall now endeavor to give some account of the College.... Some then go to a recitation' of the lesson they have learnt the previous evening. Some return to their rooms till the breakfast-bell, about seven or after. At eight the sludy bell rings. All must then go in their rooms and continue there, even if they have no lessons to learn, unless they attend a ' recitation which occupies an hour.
  • *1896 , , "The 'English Courses' of the University of California", reprinted in, 1986, Novels and Essays , Library of America, ISBN 0940450402, page 1109,
  • *:In the "announcement of courses" published annually by the faculty of the University of California the reader cannot fail to be impressed with the number and scope of the hours devoted by the students to recitations and lectures upon the subject of "literature."
  • *1999 October 29, J. Levine "Re: Debate on accreditation of Jones International", alt.education.distance , Usenet,
  • *:Many of my courses, however, were offered in recitation'-lecture format. We would attend class, say twice a week, and a lecture once a week. ... I do seem to recall that my ' recitation sections seldom had less than 40 to 50 students and my lecture classes often had upwards of 100 to 300 students.