different between drove vs school

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d???v/
  • Rhymes: -??v
• (General American) IPA: /d?o?v/
• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) IPA^(key): /d??o?v/ (Used in some regions of the US, particularly the Midwest)

Etymology 1

From Middle English drove, drof, draf, from Old English dr?f (“action of driving; a driving out, expulsion; drove, herd, band; company, band; road along which cattle are driven”), from Proto-Germanic *draib? (“a drive, push, movement, drove”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reyb?- (“to drive, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?er- (“to support”). Cognate with Scots drave, dreef (“drove, crowd”), Dutch dreef (“a walkway, wide road with trees, drove”), Middle High German treip (“a drove”), Swedish drev (“a drive, drove”), Icelandic dreif (“a scattering, distribution”). More at drive.

Noun

drove (plural droves)

1. A number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
2. (usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
3. (collective) A group of hares.
4. A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven.
5. A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
6. A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
7. The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.

Derived terms

• in droves

Translations

Etymology 2

From earlier drave, from Middle English drave, draf, from Old English dr?f, first and third person singular indicative preterite of dr?fan (“to drive”).

Verb

drove

1. simple past tense of drive

drove (third-person singular simple present droves, present participle droving, simple past and past participle droved)

1. To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
2. (transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Devor, Dover, Dovre, Voder, roved, vedro, vored

Middle English

Adjective

drove

1. Alternative form of drof

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sko?ol, IPA^(key): /sku?l/
• Rhymes: -u?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English scole, schole (“group of persons, multitude, host, school of fish”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop of people, swarm of animals”), from Old Dutch *scola, *skola (“troop, multitude”), from Proto-Germanic *skul? (“crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)k?el- (“crowd, people”). Cognate with Middle Low German sch?le (“multitude, troop”), Old English scolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, school of fish”). Doublet of shoal. Compare Hebrew ???????????? (“*(s)c?l?–education”), Hebrew ??????????? (“*(s)k?ol–cluster”).

Alternative forms

• skull (obsolete)

Noun

school (plural schools)

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

   The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.

3. A multitude.

Synonyms

• (fish): shoal

Translations

Verb

school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)

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

Etymology 2

From Middle English scole, from Old English sc?l (“place of education”), from Proto-Germanic *sk?la (“school”), from Late Latin schola, scola (“learned discussion or dissertation, lecture, school”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (skholeîon), from ????? (skhol?, “spare time, leisure; conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), from Proto-Indo-European *se??- (“to hold, have, possess”). Doublet of schola and shul. Compare Old Frisian sk?le, sch?le (“school”) (West Frisian skoalle, Saterland Frisian Skoule), Dutch school (“school”), German Low German School (“school”), Old High German scuola (“school”), Old Norse skóli (“school”).Influenced in some senses by Middle English schole (“group of persons, host, company”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop, band”). See school₁. Related also to Old High German sigi (German Sieg, “victory”), Old English si?e, sigor (“victory”).

Alternative forms

• schole (obsolete)

Noun

school (plural schools)

1. (US, Canada) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.

2. (Britain) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
3. (Britain) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.

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

5. An art movement, a community of artists.

   The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time.

6. (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
   • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper

     Let no man be less confident in his faith […] by reason of any difference of judgment , which is in the several schools of Christians.

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

8. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
9. 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.

   • 1883, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, But Yet a Woman

     His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools.

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

Synonyms

• (institution dedicated to teaching and learning): academy, college, university
• (organizational unity within an educational institution): college, department, faculty, institute

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:school

Coordinate terms

• (institution providing primary and secondary education): nursery school, kindergarten, college, polytechnic, university

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)

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

2. (transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
   • 1998, Leigh Jones, "National bar exam methods win in ADA regulation test," The Journal Record, April 13,

     A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court.

   • 2007, Peter David and Alvin Sargent, Spider-Man 3, Simon and Schuster, ?ISBN, pg. 216,

     "You again?" Sandman demanded. "I guess you didn't learn your lesson."

     "This time I'm gonna school you."

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

Derived terms

• schooling

Translations

Further reading

• school on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• school (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• school (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• cholos

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sxo?l/
• Hyphenation: school
• Rhymes: -o?l

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch schôle, from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek ????? (skhol?).

Noun

school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)

1. A school, educational institution that provides education, whether combined with research or not
2. A thematic educational institute within a larger one, such as in a university for a single research field.
3. Any organisation providing instruction.
4. A movement or stylistic trend.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: skool
  • ? Northern Ndebele: isikolo
  • ? N?uu: skool
  • ? Sotho: sekolo
  • ? Southern Ndebele: isikolo
  • ? Shona: chikoro (through a Nguni intermediate)
  • ? Tsonga: xikolo
  • ? Venda: tshikolo
  • ? Xhosa: isikolo
  • ? Zulu: isikole
• ? Papiamentu: skol
• ? Sranan Tongo: skoro

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch sch?le, from Old Dutch *skola, from Proto-Germanic *skul?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)k?el- (“crowd, people”).

Noun

school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)

1. A school, group of fish or other aquatic animals.

Derived terms

• samenscholen

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

school

1. singular past indicative of schuilen
2. first-person singular present indicative of scholen
3. imperative of scholen