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schooling
 
Noun schooling has 3 senses
  1. schooling - the act of teaching at school
    --1 is a kind of     teaching, instruction, pedagogy
    Derived form: verb school1
  2. school, schooling - the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?"
    --2 is a kind of education
  3. schooling - the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage)
    --3 is a kind of     training, preparation, grooming
Verb school has 3 senses
  1. school - educate in or as if in a school; "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions"
    --1 is one way to     educate
    Derived forms: noun school5, noun school4, noun school3, noun school2, noun school1, noun schooling1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise - train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
    --2 is one way to polish, refine, fine-tune, down
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
  3. school - swim in or form a large group of fish; "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"
    --3 is one way to     swim
    Derived form: noun school7
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
schooldays schooled schoolfellow schoolfriend schoolgirl schoolgirlish schoolgraeme schoolhouse schooling schoolma am schoolman schoolmarm schoolmaster schoolmate schoolmistress schoolroom schools

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