(n.) One who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of Plato; the disciples of our Savior.
(v. t.) To teach; to train.
(v. t.) To punish; to discipline.
(v. t.) To make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the Dynamo winning three of their last four, that scenario was becoming more likely, though disciples of the Church of Dom were given reason for pause on Saturday.
(2) This school of thought has had a massive surge in disciples of late, as the dust settles in the aftermath of the credit crisis; now that the second wave of the credit crunch appears to be upon us, the baying for blood has become even louder and more vituperative.
(3) Chicago police say the number 300 is street slang for Black Disciple gang.
(4) Many of his disciples and coworkers became first rate scientists, owing a lot to his encouraging personality.
(5) Last year's annual report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development should have been an obituary for the neoliberal model developed by Hayek and Friedman and their disciples.
(6) It was the negative influence of his former disciple, that teutonically resolute Austrian chap that mislead il Duce; we Italians were less ruthless with the Jews – that was the gist of his speech.
(7) Other objections rest on the fact that Jesus chose only male disciples.
(8) Berizzo, a disciple of Marcelo Bielsa who he first worked under aged 14, pushes his team high up the pitch and at great speed; the ball moves quickly, the players too.
(9) It is maybe unsurprising, then, that many of Jacobs' disciples have had nothing but scorn for the High Line.
(10) Crowley, who was also a mountaineer, yoga enthusiast, occultist, poet, painter, rumoured spy and magician, became known in the press as “the wickedest man in the world” after the wife of one of his disciples blamed her husband’s death on drinking the blood of a sacrificed cat.
(11) He's not a slavish disciple of markets, or small government (although fiscal circumstances and periodic stiffening from economic dries within the Liberal party may make him something of a latterday convert on this score at least).
(12) Or I lost it.” Muhammad Ali: fighter, joker, magician, religious disciple, preacher Read more Another memory I have of that time is of waking up one morning in Ali’s home and hearing Lonnie cry out, “Oh my God!
(13) In early 2015, Isis was at the height of its power, and was still attracting thousands of eager new disciples every month from all over the world.
(14) CBT and exercise have their disciples, but clearly aren’t panaceas.
(15) He washed volunteers’ feet on the steps of the capitol building in an allusion to the gospel of John, in which Jesus washes the disciples in what Cato said was an act of love “with no caveat”.
(16) In 1914, Pavlov's disciple N. R. Shenger-Krestovnikova, exploring the limits of visual discrimination in dogs, noticed that when the discrimination was difficult, the dogs' behavior became disorganized.
(17) One of Boris Johnson’s Eurosceptic disciples interrupted a live Channel 4 broadcast on Friday night on the mayor of London’s orders.
(18) Graffiti is only ever graffiti when it’s done illegally.” Saysell said he was a disciple of the “broken windows theory”, the idea that tackling small acts of vandalism promotes a sense of order which prevents further crime.
(19) Nasser was a flawed and tragic idol by the time Gaddafi had acquired the means to emulate him, but an immensely potent one all the same, and had he lived, the disciple would have remained in the shadow of the master.
(20) Jiang Jiemin, another high-profile disciple of Zhou and the former head of the commission that oversees China’s state-owned companies, was sentenced to 16 years in October.
Student
Definition:
(n.) A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student.
(n.) One who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or of physical nature.
Example Sentences:
(1) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
(2) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(3) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
(4) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
(5) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(6) Its articulation with content and process, the teaching strategies and learning outcomes for both students and faculty are discussed.
(7) We describe both the three supportive psychotherapeutic steps, which may last months to years including subsequent dynamically psychotherapeutic strategies as well as the reactions of the auxiliary therapist function on the students.
(8) The purposes of this study were to assess the career development needs of entering medical students as measured by the Medical Career Development Inventory and to examine gender differences in responses to the inventory.
(9) (2) A close correlation between the obesity index and serum GPT was recognized by elevation of the standard partial regression coefficient of serum GPT to obesity index and that of obesity index to serum GPT when the data from all 617 students was analysed in one group.
(10) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(11) After an introductory training program, the students asked the patients arriving at the hospital out-patient clinic for permission to observe them throughout the attendance given.
(12) Data from 579 medical students from the classes of 1979-80 through 1983-84 attending a midwestern medical college were analyzed via moderated multiple regression.
(13) The organisation initially focused on education, funding the Indian company BYJU’s, which helps students learn maths and science, and the Nigerian company Andela, which trains African software developers.
(14) Students are assigned to tutorial groups, and much of the educational thrust of the program is built upon interactions within these groups.
(15) The ratio of male:female students admitted has fallen from 3.4:1 in 1968 to 1.4:1 in 1987.
(16) Unsuccessful problem solutions revealed two patterns of students performances.
(17) This longitudinal study compares the accuracy of self-assessments of 22 students across four examinations during their first 2 years of medical school.
(18) There are many factors influencing these students to start smoking.
(19) According to perimeter of leg, 13% of these girl students might he considered affected of second degree malnutrition, this situation prevailed from 13 to 18 years of age, but was not true in the 12--year--old group.
(20) This goal seems to have been met as indicated by an evaluation received from the students, since 58.3 percent believed they better understood the role of the technologist and clinical laboratory in patient care.