What's the difference between school and schoolmate?
School
Definition:
(n.) A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.
(n.) A session of an institution of instruction.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
(n.) An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
(v. t.) To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
(v. t.) To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only other evidence of Kopachi's existence is the primary school near the memorial.
(2) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
(3) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(4) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(5) 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.
(6) Research efforts in the Swedish schools are of high quality and are remarkably prolific.
(7) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(8) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(9) The 36-year-old teacher at an inner-city London primary school earns £40,000 a year and contributes £216 a month to her pension.
(10) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(11) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
(12) After a due process hearing, the child was placed in a school for autistic children.
(13) Problems associated with school-based clinics include vehement opposition to sex education, financing, and the sheer magnitude of the adolescents' health needs.
(14) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(15) Measurements of ChE concentration and ChE enzymatic activity by two different assay kits in 63 serum samples taken in the Clinical Laboratory of the Jichi Medical School correlated closely.
(16) When war broke out, the nine-year-old Arden was sent away to board at a school near York and then on Sedbergh School in Cumbria.
(17) Relative to the perceived severity of their asthma, both Maoris and Pacific Islanders lost more time from work or school and used hospital services more than European asthmatics using A & E. The increased use of A & E by Maori and Pacific Island asthmatics seemed not attributable to the intrinsic severity of their asthma and was better explained by ethnic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.
(18) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
(19) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(20) A study was conducted to determine the usefulness of self-screening of blood pressure in families as part of a school health care programme, and to study the relationship between BP and sodium excretion in school children.
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.