(n.) Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.
(n.) A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation.
Example Sentences:
(1) "She is a very private person after all, a bookworm really, she once said.
(2) But he argued that his hard labour in the fields had prevented him from studying and attacked "bookworms who ignored their proper occupations" and craved a college education for their own selfish benefits.
(3) She has just got a job in publishing and is a real bookworm, so her advice was valuable.
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(5) Other changes include "housemistress" becoming "teacher", "awful swotter" becoming "bookworm", "mother and father" becoming "mum and dad", "school tunic" becoming "uniform" and Dick's comment that "she must be jolly lonely all by herself" being changed to "she must get lonely all by herself".
(6) Speaking last month at the Bookworm literary festival in Beijing, Hyeonseo Lee , a defector who fled North Korea in 1997, attacked Beijing’s treatment of North Korean defectors.
(7) Sims may love food, family or mischief; they may be hotheaded bookworms, gloomy loners or goofball romantics; they could be driven by dreamy creativity or pure financial greed.
(8) I don’t have a problem with the term “gamer” – to me it signifies what “film buff” or “bookworm” does – someone who is heavily invested in the medium.
(9) Finally, you’ve found another bookworm – and you can judge them by what they’re reading (yes, Middlemarch; no, Ayn Rand).
(10) The ever-busy Cave's one-woman show, Bookworm, debuts at the Edinburgh festival fringe this summer.
(11) In those days, any self-respecting teenage bookworm went to school with a Penguin Modern Classic tucked in a blazer pocket.
Scholastic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy.
(a.) Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
(n.) One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.
(n.) See the Note under Jesuit.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that these equations could be used singularly or collectively to determine FFB, and a minimal weight could then be derived and assigned to a scholastic wrestler.
(2) The scholastic incidents at nursery school happen prevalently in court on the occasion of recreation activities for falling from a play equipment, at primary school in schoolroom or in corridor on the occasion of recreation for push of schoolfellow, at secondary school in palaestra during time of physical education for falling or traumatic contact with the ball.
(3) Right and left cerebral hemisphere and limbic scores derived from the Herrmann Brain Dominance Profile, Scholastic Aptitude Test Verbal and Mathematics scores, and High School Grade Point Average were correlated with grades in college developmental courses in reading, English, and mathematics for 146 students.
(4) ), at last two months of 1st Primary School evaluation of acquired scholastic learning capacities by reading test of Inizan and calculation test of Meljac.
(5) Therefore it's necessary to intensify both information programs and dental prevention at a scholastic level in the intervention of a valid program of social and preventive medicine.
(6) The etiology of idiopathic thoracic scoliosis is a relevant problem in the fields of scholastic medicine and orthopaedics.
(7) This essay deals with the current credo of scholastic medicine, the definition of alternative health care and with the methods of phytotherapy, homeopathy and acupuncture.
(8) A sub-sample of depressed scorers (111 pupils) were compared with controls (non-depressed scorers) matched on age and sex to study a variety of personal, familial, medical and scholastic ecological variables.
(9) All secondary school nursing students enrolled in the Main University Hospital during the scholastic year 1987-1988 were studied for knowledge and practices related to menstruation.
(10) Harold Segall's historical interests and continued professional activities demonstrate the validity of his scholastic motto: "It is good to know."
(11) These data suggest that scholastic performance and research experience during medical school predict career achievement in academic medicine over 20 years in the future.
(12) For boys, this performance could be predicted from scholastic aptitude and previous achievement in mathematics.
(13) Assessment will continue through to early scholastic performance and will include measurement of deciduous tooth lead concentration as an integrated measure of long term exposure.
(14) Even though the publisher Scholastic held the licence, the first thing was to get Deary on board.
(15) This positive attitude influences other educational and scholastic areas as well and is an important starting-point for effectively coping with the ailment.
(16) Moreover, groups formed on the basis of high vs. low temperament fit showed differential adjustment scores: adolescents in the low fit group in regard to both peer- and parent-demands received lower teacher ratings of scholastic competence, and higher parent ratings for conduct and school problems, than did the adolescents in the high fit group.
(17) 384 adolescents in Chiavenna schools were examined in a study of the considerable incidence of tibia vara, seen as a first step towards the patterns of varizing arthrosic deformation of the knee in adults of the same zone; at the same time indications on prophylactic-preventive measures in the field of scholastic and sport medicine were given.
(18) The patients had lower mean IQ, worse scholastic adaptation, more anxious and overprotective parents, higher frequency of faddiness in food and lower frequency of nail-biting than the controls.
(19) The high scholastic achievement of many of these patients is strong evidence that low oxygen saturation of arterial blood is not a prime cause of mental retardation.
(20) Scholastic grade point averages and scores on parent and teacher behavior problem-rating scales showed no group differences.