student
part of speech
noun (student, students)
meaning for a pupil
1) A student is a person who learns at a school, college or university. tree →
2) A student of something is a person who studies it carefully, at any age. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah is described as a hard book that can confuse beginners, and tradition says it should be studied with a teacher. In the primary lessons: people counted in classes or schools; equal groups of students; in the USA «student» is used for all ages, in the UK younger ones are often called «pupils»; phrases «student council», «new student», «exchange student»
examples
- The various commentaries upon it are more apt to bewilder the student than to enlighten him. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- There are 25 students in each class. tree →
- 6 students left. tree →
- Each student got 3 pencils. tree →
- How many students are there in all? tree →
- She is a student at the university. tree →
- Every student needs a library card. tree →
- The student council planned the fair. tree →
- The teacher helped the new student find her desk. tree →
- He is a keen student of birds. tree →
- An exchange student from Ireland joined our class. tree →
- The student's turn came to watch. tree →
note
A thing counted. «students in each class» × classes. Trap: the number of things each student got is a rate, not a number of students.
In the corpora
- It was reported that some students were wrongly accused of cheating by AI detectors; keeping drafts and notes helps show honest work.
- "Mature" in adverts and dating means older, for example "mature students".
- "Struggling learner" means a weak student.
- Judo and other martial arts teach students how to fall safely.
- Then China broke apart under warlords, students marched in 1919, and Japan invaded, in 1931 and fully in 1937.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «student» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.