Educate vs. Education

Educate and Education Definitions
Educate
To develop the mental, moral, or social capabilities of, especially by schooling or instruction.
Education
The act or process of educating or being educated.
Educate
To provide with knowledge or training in a particular area or for a particular purpose
Decided to educate herself in foreign languages.
Entered a seminary to be educated for the priesthood.
Education
The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process.
Educate
To provide with information, as in an effort to gain support for a position or to influence behavior
Hoped to educate the voters about the need for increased spending on public schools.
Education
A program of instruction of a specified kind or level
Driver education.
A college education.
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Educate
To develop or refine (one's taste or appreciation, for example).
Education
The field of study that is concerned with the pedagogy of teaching and learning.
Educate
To teach or instruct a person or group.
Education
An instructive or enlightening experience
Her work in an animal shelter was a real education.
Educate
To instruct or train
Education
(uncountable) The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
Good education is essential for a well-run society.
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Educate
To bring up or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.
Education
(countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction.
He has had a classical education.
The educations our children receive depend on their economic status.
Educate
Give an education to;
We must educate our youngsters better
Education
The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.
To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge.
Educate
Create by training and teaching;
The old master is training world-class violinists
We develop the leaders for the future
Education
The activities of educating or instructing or teaching; activities that impart knowledge or skill;
He received no formal education
Our instruction was carefully programmed
Good teaching is seldom rewarded
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Educate
Train to be discriminative in taste or judgment;
Cultivate your musical taste
Train your tastebuds
She is well schooled in poetry
Education
Knowledge acquired by learning and instruction;
It was clear that he had a very broad education
Education
The gradual process of acquiring knowledge;
Education is a preparation for life
A girl's education was less important than a boy's
Education
The profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)
Education
The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior);
A woman of breeding and refinement
Education
The United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979