Faculty vs. School — What's the Difference?

An inherent mental or physical power

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

A group of university departments concerned with a major division of knowledge

An institution for the instruction of children or people under college age.

A licence or authorization from a Church authority

An institution for instruction in a skill or business

An inherent power or ability

A college or university.

A talent or natural ability for something

An institution within or associated with a college or university that gives instruction in a specialized field and recommends candidates for degrees.

(used with a sing. or pl. verb) The teachers and instructors of a school or college, or of one of its divisions, especially those considered permanent, full-time employees.

A division of an educational institution constituting several grades or classes

One of the divisions of a college or university

The student body of an educational institution.

All of the members of a learned profession

The building or group of buildings housing an educational institution.

Authorization granted by authority; conferred power.

The process of being educated formally, especially education constituting a planned series of courses over a number of years

(Archaic) An occupation; a trade.

A session of instruction

The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.

A group of people, especially philosophers, artists, or writers, whose thought, work, or style demonstrates a common origin or influence or unifying belief

A division of a university.

A group of people distinguished by similar manners, customs, or opinions

(Often in the plural): an ability, power, or skill.

Close-order drill instructions or exercises for military units or personnel.

An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.

(Australian) A group of people gathered together for gambling.

(Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church.

A large group of aquatic animals, especially fish, swimming together; a shoal.

The members of a profession.

To educate in or as if in a school.

Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.

To train or discipline

Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.

(Slang) To defeat or put down decisively, especially in a humiliating manner

Power; prerogative or attribute of office.

To swim in or form into a school.

Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.

Of or relating to school or education in schools

A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, etc.

(North America) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.

The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college.

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

One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

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

The body of teachers and administrators at a school;

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

An art movement, a community of artists.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A multitude.

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

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

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

To form into, or travel in, a school.

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

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.

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

A session of an institution of instruction.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

An educational institution;

A building where young people receive education;

The process of being formally educated at a school;

An educational institution's faculty and students;

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

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

A large group of fish;

Educate in or as if in a school;

Train to be discriminative in taste or judgment;

Swim in or form a large group of fish;