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School can be a noun or a verb.
school used as a noun:
- An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
"Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood." - An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
- Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
"We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music." - The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
"These economists belong to the monetarist school." - A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
"The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel." - The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
"I'll see you after school."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
school used as a verb:
- To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school.)
- To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
- To control, or compose, one's expression.
"She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is school?
- Noun usage: Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.
- Noun usage: Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.
- Noun usage: We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.
- Noun usage: These economists belong to the monetarist school.
- Noun usage: The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.
- Noun usage: I'll see you after school.
- Verb usage: She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of school are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of school, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
