University vs. School

Universitynoun

Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.

Universitynoun

The universe; the whole.

Universitynoun

An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property.

Universitynoun

An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning. In modern usage, a university is expected to have both an undergraduate division, granting bachelor's degrees, and a graduate division, granting master's or doctoral degrees, but there are some exceptions. In addition, a modern university typically also supports research by its faculty

Universitynoun

the body of faculty and students at a university

Universitynoun

establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching

Universitynoun

a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees

University

A university (Latin: universitas, 'a whole') is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs.

Schoolnoun

(collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.

Schoolnoun

A multitude.

Schoolnoun

An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.

Schoolnoun

(British) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).

Schoolnoun

(UK) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.

Schoolnoun

Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.

Schoolnoun

An art movement, a community of artists.

Schoolnoun

The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.

Schoolnoun

The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.

Schoolnoun

The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.

Schoolnoun

The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.

Schoolnoun

An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.

Schoolverb

(of fish) To form into, or travel in a school.

Schoolverb

(transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school.)

Schoolverb

(transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.

Schoolverb

(transitive) To control, or compose, one's expression.

Schoolnoun

A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

Schoolnoun

A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets.

Schoolnoun

A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.

Schoolnoun

A session of an institution of instruction.

Schoolnoun

One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning.

Schoolnoun

The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.

Schoolnoun

An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.

Schoolnoun

The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc.

Schoolnoun

The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school.

Schoolnoun

Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.

Schoolverb

To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.

Schoolverb

To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.

Schoolnoun

an educational institution;

Schoolnoun

a building where young people receive education;

Schoolnoun

the process of being formally educated at a school;

Schoolnoun

an educational institution's faculty and students;

Schoolnoun

the period of instruction in a school; the time period when schools is in session;

Schoolnoun

a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers;

Schoolnoun

a large group of fish;

Schoolverb

educate in or as if in a school;

Schoolverb

train to be discriminative in taste or judgment;

Schoolverb

swim in or form a large group of fish;

School

A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students (or ) under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory.