What's the difference between schoolboy and schoolchild?

Schoolboy


Definition:

  • (n.) A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was really an English public schoolboy, but I welcome the idea of people who are in some ways not Scottish, yet are committed to Scotland.
  • (2) By 1946, the 17-year-old Cairo schoolboy realised that, with the Zionists pressing their armed violence, the Palestinians would have to fight.
  • (3) Photograph: AFP Saint Laurent became an object of immediate fascination: quiet, timid, with neatly parted schoolboy hair, anxious eyes lurking behind thick glasses and a frail body encased in a tight black suit.
  • (4) Their actions have buried two local sons , one a schoolboy.
  • (5) Seventy six untrained schoolboys, aged 10.5-15.5 years, participated in this study.
  • (6) Molemo "Jub Jub" Maarohanye, pictured right, and his friend, Themba Tshabalala, are accused of killing four schoolboys after racing two Mini Coopers in the streets of Soweto only to lose control and plough into a group of children.
  • (7) Up the hill, the prince was trying out his schoolboy French – " C'est un honneur pour nous d'être parmi vous … merci votre patience avec mon accent " – and was cheered for doing so.
  • (8) In this study the mean age of the onset of puberty in Tswana schoolboys was determined.
  • (9) A marathon runner, Ennals once played football for England schoolboys and his late uncle, Lord David Ennals, was minister for health in James Callaghan's 1970s Labour government.
  • (10) "A complicated man, he encouraged our efforts, then turned and provoked me like a Machiavellian schoolboy.
  • (11) From here, our political leaders seem like a bunch of guilty schoolboys standing around a beautiful animal they have just pulled the wings and legs off.
  • (12) The warmest cheers came for the NHS ("not for sale", warned Unison's Dave Prentis), for attacks on the banks or (Unite's Len McCluskey) that "gaggle of public schoolboys on the make" who run the coalition.
  • (13) A 10-year-old schoolboy was referred to the Ophthalmic Unit of Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital because of sudden loss of sight following 5 days of severe frontal headache.
  • (14) He began working for the Labour party as a schoolboy, distributing leaflets for his local officials.
  • (15) The unforseeable evolution of innate gifts in a child sometimes permits a partial transcendence of these crippling defenses, as Orwell partially transcended what appears to have been the emotional deprivation of his childhood and what he felt to have been the abuse of his schoolboy years.
  • (16) Teachers should be given more powers to search pupils they suspect of carrying knives, according to an independent report on the death of the Aberdeen schoolboy Bailey Gwynne, which goes on to recommend that the Scottish government explore tighter controls on buying weapons online.
  • (17) While the smoking habit of the secondary schoolboys was influenced by the smoking habits of their parents and friends, the smoking habit of the secondary schoolgirls and female medical students was mainly influenced by that of their friends.
  • (18) "He went for it," says Beckett with a laugh, sounding less like a record mogul and more like a naughty schoolboy.
  • (19) "I will never be able to be back to being the sprinter that I used to be," says the former schoolboy athlete ruefully, "but I want to be fitter.
  • (20) Mr Cameron's visit - at the start of a week-long parliamentary recess - sees him escaping a small row back home over his alleged drug use as a schoolboy at Eton.

Schoolchild


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In another CF-ICA-positive schoolchild insulin response to the glucose tolerance test fell below the 1st percentile after 6 months.
  • (2) Peak oil and gas Every schoolchild is taught that world supplies will eventually run out.
  • (3) As the weanling crosses the bridge from suckling to schoolchild he will eat the suckling's food, specially prepared weaning foods, and eventually "sensible" family foods.
  • (4) For a start, I never get whacked in the face by a French schoolchild's rucksack and, secondly, it is most cheering to see them en masse from a distance because they look like a pack of Santas, on their way to a meeting.
  • (5) The prevalence of double teeth in the primary dentition, for the British schoolchild, is 1.6%.
  • (6) Every Australian schoolchild learns of what met the Australian troops at Gallipoli on the coast of Turkey in 1915 , where the British high command deployed Australian troops in a half-cocked invasion attempt of Constantinople.
  • (7) Almost every schoolchild of the 1960s was brought up on that speech, with its key invocation, "Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.
  • (8) However, no schoolchild who was positive for islet cell antibodies also had insulin antibodies present.
  • (9) You ain’t a fat bald geezer with a chain!” A schoolchild shouted: 'You ain’t no mayor!
  • (10) Gove ends his letter by suggesting that if insufficient taxpayer funds are available a private donation could be sought, before making a naked departmental bid for every schoolchild or school to be given a gift as a permanent reminder of the event.
  • (11) A representative sample of 1650 children randomly selected in the 6-15-yr-old schoolchild population of Strasbourg was examined by well-calibrated examiners.
  • (12) It was an instant success, and when Kidunae Ikeda died in 1936 he was a rich man: he remains, as every Japanese schoolchild knows, one of Japan's 10 greatest inventors.
  • (13) As every North Korean schoolchild knows, leader Kim Jong-un has succeeded in establishing his country as a nuclear power, and even sent a satellite into orbit .
  • (14) Let’s take every small schoolchild to their local library and issue them with a ticket, encourage families to make library visits routine.
  • (15) I tried addressing the man one last time, using the simplest schoolroom Irish that he must have learned during the 10 years of compulsory Irish that every schoolchild undergoes, but he covered his ears, and I was left with no choice but to leave.
  • (16) Their height and weight was measured, the %BMI was calculated, and the authors have known about performance of tonsillectomy in the past, in each schoolchild.
  • (17) It is the sort of picture that every single Russian schoolchild knows,” said Rosalind Blakesley who is curating the London show.
  • (18) One of our aims is to get every schoolchild studying art in Northern Ireland to the Turner prize, getting them there for free and in for free."
  • (19) An unimmunized schoolchild with no history of foreign travel developed severe diphtheria.
  • (20) It was recommended that for the success of oral hygiene for the pre-schoolchild, the teeth should be brushed for 5 min.

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