What's the difference between schoolboy and student?

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.

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.

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