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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pupil
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a prospective student/pupil
▪ The college will be holding an open day for prospective students.
day pupil
disruptive pupils
▪ ways to handle disruptive pupils
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ There was a parallel feeling amongst the black pupils that they were under surveillance.
▪ She could see her own face reflected in little in the black pupils of his subaqueous eyes.
▪ If a black pupil comes to see her a few times she automatically labels them as troublemakers.
▪ Underachievement, however, means something rather different when the focus of educational concern is black pupils.
▪ Nationally, 8% of black pupils are excluded from schools.
disruptive
▪ The committee said the letters should suggest banning disruptive pupils, issuing boarding passes and asking the school to consider providing supervision.
▪ I wish to tackle three major issues which have influenced this changing philosophy and relate it directly to disruptive pupils.
▪ It seems appropriate therefore that disruptive pupils have full access to the curriculum which requires that schools acknowledge this in their planning.
▪ The move towards in-class support is equally valid for disruptive pupils.
▪ Mr Clarke also stressed the role of schools in combating juvenile crime and demanded more effective treatment of disruptive pupils.
▪ We need to provide an educational service that does not promote disruptive pupils nor reject disruptive pupils.
handicapped
▪ The incidents related in her story, however, are drawn from actual experiences of visually handicapped pupils.
▪ Ways in which mobility can be made easier for visually handicapped pupils are discussed in the section on mobility in Chapter 6.
▪ Specialised equipment and materials required for visually handicapped pupils can pose a storage problem.
▪ The skilful use of a piece of interesting technology by a visually handicapped pupil can become a source of pride rather than embarrassment.
▪ There are some practical considerations that must be faced in terms of support for visually handicapped pupils who are being educated in resource situations.
▪ In addition there were another 550 schools for physically handicapped pupils which would include some mentally handicapped pupils who are also physically handicapped.
▪ Teachers can be made aware of the real challenges that visually handicapped pupils have to face.
individual
▪ Sarah is completely focused on the needs of individual pupils instead of being centred on a particular area.
▪ This section too starts with a premise, which is that individual pupils are active participants in their own education.
▪ Being a school photographer means being employed by a firm that contracts to do school / class / individual pupil photographs.
▪ The good restricted professional is sensitive to the development of individual pupils, an inventive teacher and a skilful class-manager.
▪ Funding based on age-related pupil numbers may not run to small groups and bespoke programmes for individual pupils.
▪ In this way they will be able to meet the needs of individual pupils in a more effective manner.
old
▪ It was an old pupil, William Byrd, who introduced the game to Virginia in 1709.
▪ Read in studio A grammar school headmaster has been cleared of assaulting a twelve year old girl pupil.
▪ Problem-solving activities Problem solving is a strategy that has proved useful, especially with older pupils at Key Stages 3 and 4.
▪ Read in studio Parents say they're furious over a school's decision to allow its older pupils to smoke.
▪ On one memorable occasion, she thinks to communicate her feelings about Catholic beliefs to some of her older pupils.
▪ For older pupils, theatre in education workshops may be more appropriate.
▪ Specialist subject courses for teachers of older primary pupils.
▪ Contact lenses, now sometimes used with very young children as well as older pupils, provide optical correction in another form.
other
▪ On a school outing he, and some other pupils, were involved in shoplifting.
▪ Groups may need to present and share their findings with other pupils.
▪ When all of the bells had been rung I started to make the other pupils do chairs.
▪ The teacher has a role in encouraging the pupil to use the aid and in reducing teasing by other pupils.
▪ Some had perhaps over-emphasised the needs of the Sixth Form at the expense of other pupils.
▪ Within that time, candidates are encouraged to seek help and discuss the work with other pupils or teachers.
▪ They said he was disturbing the other pupils.
▪ She made friends with the teachers as well as the other pupils.
primary
▪ Teacher and pupil, even primary school pupil, were equal partners in this joint exploration.
▪ The differences were also evident in the age range of primary school pupils.
▪ In the white sector, 94 percent of primary school pupils were aged twelve or below.
▪ In Ovamboland 60 percent of primary pupils were aged fifteen or above.
▪ With primary pupils you get a lot of really complicated questions, and sometimes really good ones too.
▪ Cheltzie Hentz is taking legal action against two fellow primary school pupils after they swore at her on a bus.
▪ The study set out to look at responses of Primary 7 pupils to simple addition problems.
secondary
▪ Drug dealers elicited sympathy from secondary school pupils, who laughed at the suggestion of reporting them to the police.
▪ A large majority of secondary school pupils have been shown to suffer from such misconceptions.
▪ About one-eighth of secondary pupils in Northern Ireland attend grammar secondary schools, the remainder attending secondary intermediate schools.
▪ Many secondary pupils are likely to be more aware than younger children of their cultural and religious frames of reference.
▪ Similar but slightly larger amounts are allocated in the same way for secondary pupils.
▪ The Headmaster in an interview said rather surprisingly that he considered this a greater handicap than any actual malnutrition among secondary pupils.
▪ There is a Junior Competitive Festival in January, specifically for primary and younger secondary pupils.
■ NOUN
school
▪ Teacher and pupil, even primary school pupil, were equal partners in this joint exploration.
▪ The segregation of school pupils who have disabilities or learning difficulties poses this question immediately.
▪ The differences were also evident in the age range of primary school pupils.
▪ In the white sector, 94 percent of primary school pupils were aged twelve or below.
▪ It was aimed at the top 20% of school pupils, and again was usually taken by 15- and 16-year-olds.
▪ Estimates of total enrolment vary, but it seems unlikely that there were less than 100,000 Sunday school pupils by 1800.
▪ Secondary School pupils, especially those studying drama, are often keen to help in Primary Schools.
▪ The title role went to school pupil who left earlier this year.
■ VERB
allow
▪ This year, 631 schools allowed pupils to give up previously compulsory lessons.
▪ Last year, when the scheme started, 470 schools allowed 9,000 pupils to do so.
▪ Terms are needed to allow teachers and pupils to discuss many aspects of language.
▪ Terms should be introduced, as appropriate, to allow teachers and pupils to discuss the topics set out below.
▪ Read in studio Parents say they're furious over a school's decision to allow its older pupils to smoke.
▪ It encourages creativity and allows pupils to use the language they have learnt in the context of stimulating and relevant projects.
▪ Another approach being considered is to allow pupils to develop this information skill as they go through inquiry work.
encourage
▪ It encourages pupils to approach them from angles not considered by other subjects or forms of study in the curriculum.
▪ Traditionally it has meant some form of moral education to encourage pupils to develop attitudes of cooperation and concern for justice.
▪ It encourages creativity and allows pupils to use the language they have learnt in the context of stimulating and relevant projects.
▪ Here we need to encourage pupils to think and express themselves in vivid ways using word pictures.
▪ The teacher has a role in encouraging the pupil to use the aid and in reducing teasing by other pupils.
▪ Teachers should discuss the cogency and clarity of such documents and should encourage pupils to improve them.
▪ To encourage individual pupil use in their non-timetabled school day. 7.
give
▪ Many of these songs give opportunity for pupils to mime or perform actions while seated at their desks.
▪ Perhaps this inference, given its grounding in pupil, not teacher data, is a tendentious one.
▪ In particular, they should give pupils the opportunity to gain some experience of the works of Shakespeare.
▪ But they also stress that if time and attention is not given to younger pupils, the cost could be great.
▪ Management here is aimed at giving pupils the opportunity to develop these characteristics.
▪ Varied learning strategies? - a final check Are you giving your pupils varied experiences, teaching strategies and activities?
▪ These items only permit one example of the shape to be given by the pupil or presented in the test.
▪ Some schools have insufficient specialist accommodation to be able to give their pupils the basic curriculum.
help
▪ It is important to help pupils to appreciate that metaphors require interpretation within a background of shared ideas.
▪ It can help pupils appreciate each other's contribution to the work and develop their own.
▪ This will help pupils to develop a personal love of reading which will continue after compulsory schooling.
▪ The prime aim is to help the pupils.
▪ There are at least three strong arguments against relativism as a stance which it is important that we help pupils to understand.
▪ Very often it helps pupils to make the imaginative leap that is required of a historian.
▪ We can apply these to the purpose of religious education in this way: to help pupils 1.
involve
▪ Obviously the teaching of language will involve pupils in reading.
▪ It involved the pupils, teachers and parents of three schools - one special, one primary and one secondary school.
▪ All these strategies have the potential to involve all pupils in mathematical challenge, enabling them to engage in a broader curriculum.
▪ Later he organised two workshops which involved the pupils creating and performing some of their own stories.
▪ These usually involve pupils wearing historical costume and carrying out tasks of a historical nature appropriate to the site.
▪ These tasks involve the pupils in collecting, organizing and presenting pictures and information about their own lives.
▪ We agreed that all pupils from the relevant classes would be involved and no pupils with potential behaviour problems would be excluded.
learn
▪ During the session 1990-91, a study was made of teaching modern languages to pupils who had difficulty learning in school.
▪ This also develops technical skills as the pupils learn to use the microcomputer while carrying out the project.
▪ Without their efforts, pupils would never learn that all-important principle of science, the controlled fair test.
▪ In particular, pupils do not learn of the social and political implications of scientific discoveries.
▪ Researchers spent days sitting alongside pupils watching them learn.
▪ The pupils learn by trial and error, by using the programs in context.
▪ Teaching like this helps the pupils to learn the pattern of spelling.
provide
▪ The expenses incurred by the college were all incurred necessarily in order properly to provide for these pupils.
▪ The teacher must provide opportunities for pupils to examine the widest range of evidence, to question it and come to conclusions.
▪ It also provides opportunities for pupils to develop vital skills and learning strategies that can be applied across the school curriculum.
▪ The questions and keywords were provided by the teacher pupils in the early stages of this unit.
▪ When linked to the attainment of specific learning outcomes it can provide pupils with a positive stimulus and aid to learning.
▪ To provide an opportunity for pupils to use and extend inquiry and communication skills developed in class work. 3.
teach
▪ Known for his quirky sayings, Kahn taught his pupils always to ask the building what it wanted to be.
▪ Every master directly addressed only some ten or so assistants, who in turn taught the pupils.
▪ Our research was on teaching pupils practical skills in Biology and Physics.
▪ Certainly, more science teachers would be needed, yet even if that were possible where on earth would they teach their pupils?
▪ A boxing instructor may teach his pupil to strike him in a given way by acting as if hurt.
▪ It was customary in those days for the ablest students to be given some responsibility for teaching the younger pupils.
▪ He taught two pupils from Magdalene.
▪ After just 12 months' training, they will be able to teach nursery and infant pupils.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an apt pupil/student
▪ But once at university I was an apt student.
▪ With every move she gave a little gasp, as her body, previous experience or not, proved an apt pupil.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The new law reduces the number of pupils per class in the first four years of schooling.
▪ The school has over 700 pupils.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Many teachers express concern that even their more able pupils do not fulfil their potential in the subject.
▪ The 20 pupils attending the meetings are ages 5-12.
▪ The instructors walk around with weapons on their belts and constantly remind their pupils to don their ear protectors.
▪ The specialist teacher may find that some visually handicapped pupils require direct support teaching sessions.
▪ Thus, although these pupils generally have difficulty with reading, this does not mean that written tests should be ruled out.
▪ What this criticism draws attention to is the bitter truth about teachers' exclusive concentration upon creativity with working-class pupils.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pupil

Pupil \Pu"pil\, n. [F. pupille, n. fem., L. pupilla the pupil of the eye, originally dim. of pupa a girl. See Puppet, and cf. Pupil a scholar.] (Anat.) The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris.

Pin-hole pupil (Med.), the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole.
--Dunglison.

Pupil

Pupil \Pu"pil\, n. [F. pupille, n. masc. & fem., L. pupillus, pupilla, dim. of pupus boy, pupa girl. See Puppet, and cf. Pupil of the eye.]

  1. A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.

    Too far in years to be a pupil now.
    --Shak.

    Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.
    --L'Estrange.

  2. A person under a guardian; a ward.
    --Dryden.

  3. (Civil Law) A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.

    Syn: Learner; disciple; tyro. -- See Scholar.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pupil

"student," late 14c., originally "orphan child, ward," from Old French pupille (14c.) and directly from Latin pupillus (fem. pupilla) "orphan child, ward, minor," diminutive of pupus "boy" (fem. pupa "girl"), probably related to puer "child," possibly from PIE *pup-, from root *pu- "to swell, inflate." Meaning "disciple, student" first recorded 1560s. Related: Pupillary.

pupil

"center of the eye," early 15c. (in English in Latin form from late 14c.), from Old French pupille (14c.), from Latin pupilla, originally "little girl-doll," diminutive of pupa "girl; doll" (see pupil (n.1)), so called from the tiny image one sees of himself reflected in the eye of another. Greek used the same word, kore (literally "girl"), to mean both "doll" and "pupil of the eye;" and compare obsolete baby "small image of oneself in another's pupil" (1590s), source of 17c. colloquial expression to look babies "stare lovingly into another's eyes."Self-knowledge can be obtained only by looking into the mind and virtue of the soul, which is the diviner part of a man, as we see our own image in another's eye. [Plato, "Alcibiades," I.133]

Wiktionary
pupil

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context legal obsolete English) An orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state. 2 (senseid en student)A student under the supervision of a teacher or professor. Etymology 2

n. (context anatomy English) The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina.

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WordNet
pupil

  1. n. a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution [syn: student, educatee]

  2. contractile aperture in the iris of the eye

  3. a young person attending school (up through senior high school) [syn: schoolchild, school-age child]

Wikipedia
Pupil

The pupil is a hole located in the centre of the iris of the eye that allows light to strike the retina. It appears black because light rays entering the pupil are either absorbed by the tissues inside the eye directly, or absorbed after diffuse reflections within the eye that mostly miss exiting the narrow pupil.

In humans the pupil is round, but other species, such as some cats, have vertical slit pupils, goats have horizontally oriented pupils, and some catfish have annular types. In optical terms, the anatomical pupil is the eye's aperture and the iris is the aperture stop. The image of the pupil as seen from outside the eye is the entrance pupil, which does not exactly correspond to the location and size of the physical pupil because it is magnified by the cornea. On the inner edge lies a prominent structure, the collarette, marking the junction of the embryonic pupillary membrane covering the embryonic pupil.

Pupil (band)

Pupil is a Filipino rock band composed of Ely Buendia on lead vocals and guitars, Dok Sergio on bass, Wendell Garcia on drums and Jerome Velasco on guitars.

Pupil (disambiguation)

The pupil is the variable-sized, black opening in the centre of the iris.

Pupil may also refer to:

  • Student
    • Pupillage, a trainee barrister (England and Wales)
  • Entrance pupil, the optical image of the aperture stop, as 'seen' through the front of a lens system
  • Exit pupil, the image of the aperture stop in the optics that follow it
  • Pupil (band), a Filipino rock band
  • The Pupil (short story), 1891 short story by Henry James
  • The Pupil (TV series), 2010 Singaporean drama series
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Usage examples of "pupil".

His sight, which had troubled him at intervals, became affected, and a celebrated oculist spoke of abnormality, asymetry of the pupils.

As he said the last words my converter rose, and went to the window to dry his tears, I felt deeply moved, anal full of admiration for the virtue of De la Haye and of his pupil, who, to save his soul, had placed himself under the hard necessity of accepting alms.

The translations have all been made with care, but for the sake of younger pupils simplified and modernized as much as close adherence to the sense would permit.

John of Brienne, I cannot discover the name or exploits of his pupil Baldwin, who had attained the age of military service, and who succeeded to the imperial dignity on the decease of his adoptive father.

The senior Aikido sensei was said to be a most remarkable man, possessed of ki and the leading figure of his discipline but his pupil Sato, though promising, was not of that caliber.

The color faded from his eyes, leached away to white and then filled with amaranthine lacking whites, pupils and iris.

The first time they took mortgiefan their eyes changed to amaranthine, lacking in iris, whites, and pupils.

Her answering in the negative made me understand that, if I had pressed her a little, she would have allowed me to see her lovely pupil, and perhaps it was with that intention that she had contrived to speak to me, but I felt great reluctance to do anything to displease my worthy host.

Because they travelled around, and had many different pupils, in differing circumstances, the sophists became adept at arguing different points of view, and in time this bred a scepticism about their approach.

The pupil will see that he has not the necessary arithmetical knowledge to solve the problem and will then be in the proper mental attitude for the lesson.

Zarth Arn, my most devoted scientific pupil, wanted to try it out and he helped me build and test the apparatus.

A book may be a perfect gentleman in its aspect and demeanor, and this book would be good company for personages like Roger Ascham and his pupils the Lady Elizabeth and the Lady Jane Grey.

The others girls began to whisper to each other, and guessing what they must be saying I turned to Dupre without taking any notice of Madame Madcap, and gave him twelve pistoles, saying that I would pay for the lessons three months in advance, and that I hoped he would bring his new pupil on well.

I cried as well as the apostle, and in my dawning piety I told him that I insisted not only upon remaining unknown to his pupil, but also upon ignoring the amount of the sums he might take out of my purse to forward to him, and I therefore begged that he would help himself without rendering me any account.

The dancing master begged me to dance a minuet with his pupil, and I assented, asking him to play larghissimo.