Word Finder - tutors

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One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.

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He passed the difficult class with help from his tutor.

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A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.

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One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.

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(trading card games) A card that allows you to search your deck for one or more other cards.

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To instruct or teach, especially an individual or small group.

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To help pay her tuition, the college student began to tutor high school students in calculus and physics.

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To treat with authority or sternness.

After being privately educated by his mother and tutors, he entered Rugby school in 1841.

The children with their tutors and governesses had had tea and their voices were audible from the next room.

Whilst under the first of these tutors, in nine months he read all Thucydides, Sophocles and Sallust, twelve books of Tacitus, the greater part of Horace, Juvenal, Persius, and several plays of Aeschylus and Euripides.

His tutors were the learned Janos Vitez, bishop of Nagyvarad, whom he subsequently raised to the primacy, and the Polish humanist Gregory Sanocki.

He complains especially of his tutors, and in one case with abundant reason; but, by his own confession, they might have recriminated with justice, for he indulged in gay society, and kept late hours.

He was carefully educated by excellent tutors under the watchful eyes of his parents.

In the religious literature they are almost exclusively represented as magicians and diviners opposing the Christian missionaries, though we find two of them acting as tutors to the daughters of Laegaire, the high-king, at the coming of St Patrick.

A considerable number of these Indians have been gathered together in aldeas under the charge of government tutors, but the larger part still live in their own villages or as nomads.

He read for six months with private tutors, and in October 18 28 went up to Christ Church, where, in the following year, he was nominated to a studentship.

On his travels he did not, we are told by the fourth earl, "greatly seek the conversation of other English young gentlemen on their travels," but rather that of their tutors, with whom he could converse on congenial topics.

We must allow for stages of development both among the Israelites and among their tutors.

His father, then prince of Prussia, was out of favour with Frederick the Great and entirely under the influence of his mistress; and the boy, handed over to tutors appointed by the king, lived a solitary and repressed life which tended to increase the innate weakness of his character.

Wellington the proposal seemed premature; he would prefer to wait till "the assembly had published its conduct by its acts"; for if the new chambers were to prove as intractable as the dissolved Chambre introuvable, the monarchy would not be able to dispense with its foreign tutors.

By some of the students and tutors, by Liddell, Newton, Acland and others, he was regarded as a youth of rare promise, and he made some lifelong friendships with men of mark and of power.

At the proper age young More was sent to Oxford, where he is said vaguely to have had Colet, Grocyn and Linacre for his tutors.

In accordance with the custom then prevailing in German princely families, she was educated chiefly by French governesses and tutors.

The young prince was educated at his father's miniature court in Rome, with James Murray, Jacobite earl of Dunbar, for his governor, and under various tutors, amongst whom were the learned Chevalier Ramsay, Sir Thomas Sheridan and the abbe Legoux.

He was educated entirely in Bulgaria, first by tutors and later at the cadet and officers' schools, serving subsequently as A.D.C. to the King and to various generals.

Young Malthus was never sent to a public school, but received his education from private tutors.

Until the Restoration he was placed under the care, first of Lord Crofts, by whose name he was known, and then of the queen-dowager, receiving his education to the age of nine from Roman Catholics, but thenceforward from Protestant tutors.

He was the first English monarch to be educated under the influence of the Renaissance, and his tutors included the poet Skelton; he became an accomplished scholar, linguist, musician and athlete, and when by the death of his brother Arthur in 1502 and of his father on the 22nd of April 1509 Henry VIII.

It is pleasing to turn from these vehement struggles of thought to a tour which Hegel in company with three other tutors made through the Bernese Oberland in July and August 1796.

His training was conducted in its early stages by his father, and was later supplemented by tutors.

Rapid changes among the fellows found him at the age of twenty-six "the senior and most responsible of the four Balliol tutors."

He never sympathized with the principles of the Tractarian movement, and on the appearance of Tract XC. in 1841 he drafted the famous protest of the "Four Tutors" against it; but this was his only important contribution to the controversy.

John Gerson, the foremost theologian of France, wrote a manual of instructions (still extant) for the first of his tutors, Jean Majoris, a canon of Reims. His second tutor, Bernard of Armagnac, was noted for his piety and humility.

His education was continued by capable tutors, and he not only attained excellence in all manly sports, but became perhaps more cultured than any other prince of his age.

Furthermore, they undertook the charge of private education, opening schools which displaced the medieval system of instruction, and taking engagements as tutors in the families of despots, noblemen and wealthy merchants.

Through their influence as tutors, professors, orators and courtiers, society was permeated by a fresh ideal of culture.

Families who have means and do not desire their children to become members of the clergy, employ private tutors, and several have latterly obtained the services of English and French professors to educate their children, while others send their boys to school in England, France, Germany and Russia.

He was put in charge of a trustworthy governor, Nikita Panin, and of competent tutors.

Circumstances were greatly in his favour; he had in his youth mainly been educated by Protestant tutors, and for a time openly avowed strong sympathy for the party of church reform.

For a few years he was one of the tutors at Oriel, but the provost, Edward Hawkins, disliked his religious views, and in 1831 he resigned and left Oxford.

In1722-1723he was for eight months stated supply of a small Presbyterian church in New York city, which invited him to remain, but he declined the call, spent two months in study at home, and then in1724-1726was one of the two tutors at Yale, earning for himself the name of a " pillar tutor " by his steadfast loyalty to the college and its orthodox teaching at the time when Yale's rector (Cutler) and one of her tutors had gone over to the Episcopal Church.

His parts were good and he could speak and write six languages at a very early age, but the zeal of his guardians and tutors to make a man of him betimes nearly ruined his feeble constitution, while the riotous life led by him and his young consort, Maria of Austria, whom he wedded on the 13th of January 1522, speedily disqualified him for affairs, so that at last he became an object of ridicule at his own court.

Being men of presumed learning and undoubted leisure, many of the class found admission to the houses of the French nobility as tutors or advisers.

For three years more he was under the control of tutors and governors appointed by his council.

It was facilitated by trained tutors who themselves have long-term health problems.

In this letter Mühlfeld dwells upon clarinet tutors and clarinet makers of his time to an unknown addressee.

Given Oxford's status as an international research institution, tutors can often be found in quite arcane subject areas.

Details about quality assurance Tutors are provided with a marking scheme, to which they are expected to adhere.

The NEC Braille tutors are responsible for teaching braille on two of these courses.

Communication between tutors and students is facilitated via discussion boards, real-time chat and email functions.

Virginia was educated by private tutors and by extensive reading of literary classics in her father's library.

The best referees will be your former tutors, department heads or senior colleagues.

Providers servicing rural areas used locally-based tutors to reduce travel costs and make delivery more cost-effective.

The traditional tutors ' barn dance was eschewed in favor of cocktails in Old Hall.

Tutors, however, also actively encourage the children to try something new.

These include fostering learner engagement, enabling multiple roles for both learners and tutors, and appropriate focusing of assessed tasks.

Low ability tutors produced tutee gains at least equivalent to those produced by high ability tutors.