Schooling

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Schooling \School"ing\, a. [See {School} a shoal.] (Zool.)
     Collecting or running in schools or shoals.
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           Schooling species like the herring and menhaden. --G.
                                                    B. Goode.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Schooling \School"ing\, n.
     1. Instruction in school; tuition; education in an
        institution of learning; act of teaching.
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     2. Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good
        schooling. --Sir W. Scott.
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     3. Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an
        instructor for teaching pupils.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  School \School\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Schooled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Schooling}.]
     1. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a
        school; to teach.
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              He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned.
                                                    --Shak.
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     2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to
        systematic discipline; to train.
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              It now remains for you to school your child,
              And ask why God's Anointed be reviled. --Dryden.
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              The mother, while loving her child with the
              intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself
              to hope for little other return than the waywardness
              of an April breeze.                   --Hawthorne.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  schooling
       n 1: the act of teaching at school
       2: the process of being formally educated at a school; "what
          will you do when you finish school?" [syn: {school}]
       3: the training of an animal (especially the training of a
          horse for dressage)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "schooling":
     book learning, booklore, catechization, coaching, didactics,
     direction, edification, education, enlightenment, guidance,
     illumination, indoctrination, information, instruction, knowledge,
     learning, pedagogics, pedagogy, preparation, private teaching,
     programmed instruction, reeducation, research, self-instruction,
     self-teaching, spoon-feeding, study, teaching, training, tuition,
     tutelage, tutorage, tutoring, tutorship