What's the difference between classmate and schoolmate?
Classmate
Definition:
(n.) One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
(2) Along with a lengthy list of cameos, Girls actor Gaby Hoffmann and Party Down star Martin Starr appear as former Neptune High classmates new to the Veronica Mars universe.
(3) Normative ranges of drinking converged from September to April, suggesting the emerging norms were the product of social experience with classmates.
(4) Friends and classmates were receiving psychological counselling at the school on Thursday, Ouest-France newspaper said, adding that the first some had heard of the attack was on the television news.
(5) Our classmates tell us that they are embarrassed when their family and friends ask them to explain the causes of the current crisis and they can't.
(6) She has written informing them that FGM is a concern for her and her classmates, and calling on the education department to become part of the solution.
(7) Police are trying to determine why a Washington state high school student shot dead a female classmate and wounded four others on Friday, before killing himself.
(8) Alcohol abusers describe themselves as less warm, kind, gentle, and emotionally expressive than their classmates, and were more preoccupied with themes of power in spontaneous fantasy productions.
(9) Girls have also outperformed boys in terms of grades at A*-C. • In biology, physics and chemistry, girls outperform their male classmates at A* and A grades even though more boys than girls take these subjects.
(10) Veronica investigated her classmates, and that still matters In Mars vs Mars, the 14th episode of season one, Veronica’s classmate Carrie (Leighton Meister) claims she slept with their teacher, Mr Rooks (Adam Scott).
(11) Yet she spoke mostly of her deep concern for her friends and classmates still in captivity and pleaded for their immediate rescue."
(12) In a 2012 report, UCLA's Civil Rights Project noted : "Nationwide, the typical black student is now in a school where almost two out of every three classmates (64%) are low income."
(13) From classmates who thought a black girl with a book was acting white.
(14) The students thought that 18.4% of their classmates had ever had coitus, compared with 23.5% on self-report.
(15) Findings were that hyperactive children were more spontaneously talkative than their classmates during transitions and nonverbal tasks (nonelicited conditions) but were less talkative when they were asked to tell stories (elicited conditions).
(16) They also complain that because children on free school meals get transport on routes that are over two miles long and will therefore still get a bus to school while their classmates walk, the kind of cuts seen in East Sussex risk stigmatising pupils from low-income families.
(17) Classmates, family friends and neighbours said the tall, withdrawn young man had always seemed more shy than violent.
(18) Who’s ready to continue the policies of the last few years under President Obama?” began Bob Henriquez, who introduced himself as a classmate of Michelle Obama at Princeton.
(19) Selected local medical students interviewed 554 physicians who had returned home after U.S. training and 60 of their classmates who had not trained there.
(20) They also predicted the preferences of an unfavored classmate and of favored and unfavored ambiguous targets.
Schoolmate
Definition:
(n.) A pupil who attends the same school as another.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of the boys 83.5% and of the girls 86.5% usually smoked with friends or schoolmates.
(2) I must also accept that Cameron recruits the best and the brightest, who just happen to be his schoolmates, and that education should be overhauled by a nostalgic zealot who has never taught and dismisses evidence.
(3) That was a very funny memory that’s lived with me forever.” She also bought him the “rudest” cards, which he was embarrassed to open in front of his schoolmates.
(4) His 1990 BBC play Old Flames starred Stephen Fry and Simon Callow as former schoolmates who find themselves sucked into a vortex of anonymous persecution.
(5) Outcomes included measures of attitudes, familiarity with disabled schoolmates, self-esteem, and parental attitude.
(6) So meeting my schoolmates again was quite an experience.
(7) Outside his house, an old schoolmate of one of the fighters expressed his shock.
(8) Photograph: PA Another SNP member, Chris Law, read out a harrowing account of a Hiroshima survivor talking about witnessing her schoolmates die.
(9) "They give money to children to recruit schoolmates – once you have two children, the whole school is gone," he said in an interview.
(10) Most black peers they’ve ever known – say, schoolmates they knew when they were kids – will likely be six feet under while they’re still breathing on this earth.
(11) Everything changed with Carrie , the story of a telekinetic teenager and her sublime rage at her fundamentalist mother and bullying schoolmates.
(12) Telling the story of a shy young girl with telekinetic powers who suffers emotional abuse from schoolmates and family, it is a production with a notoriously chequered past.
(13) Eight-year-olds were substantially better at identifying ungrammatical forms than were their younger schoolmates.
(14) People are getting revenge, and they are just getting started,” said Quatiarra Bonaparte, a 14-year-old schoolmate of some of those involved.
(15) The study indicates that interaction between schoolmates and unsatisfactory schoolmate relationships are important determinants of risk of injury at school.
(16) In order to analyse the importance of schoolmate interactions and unsatisfactory schoolmate relationships for the occurrence of injuries at school a case-control study was carried out in 1986 in the comprehensive schools of Linköping.
(17) Poole, in Dorset, recorded the worst performance by disadvantaged pupils, with just 53% reaching the expected pass mark in reading, writing and maths – compared with 78% of their schoolmates.
(18) David Cameron has welcomed his former Etonian schoolmate's proposed return to the Commons, saying he needed his star players on the pitch in the run up to the election.
(19) Hundreds of Luke’s family, friends and schoolmates went to Flinders Christian Community College on Friday morning to pay their respects.
(20) Pablo's cousin, Jaime Gaviria, and his old schoolmate, "El Chino", told us of the early days of the cocaine trade.