teach (verb)

  • 11teach — verb 1) Alison teaches small children Syn: educate, instruct, school, tutor, coach, train; enlighten, illuminate, verse, edify, indoctrinate; drill, discipline 2) I taught yoga Syn …

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  • 12teach — verb Syn: educate, instruct, school, tutor, inform, coach, train, drill …

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  • 13teach — [[t]ti͟ːtʃ[/t]] ♦♦ teaches, teaching, taught 1) VERB If you teach someone something, you give them instructions so that they know about it or how to do it. [V n n] The trainers have a programme to teach them vocational skills... [V n wh] George… …

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  • 14teach — /ti:tS/ past tense and past participle taught verb 1 SCHOOL/COLLEGE ETC (I, T) to give lessons in a school, college, or university: Guy s been teaching in France for 3 years now. | teach English/mathematics/history etc: Janet teaches science at a …

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  • 15teach */*/*/ — UK [tiːtʃ] / US [tɪtʃ] verb Word forms teach : present tense I/you/we/they teach he/she/it teaches present participle teaching past tense taught UK [tɔːt] / US [tɔt] past participle taught 1) a) [intransitive/transitive] to help students to learn …

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  • 16teach*/*/*/ — [tiːtʃ] (past tense and past participle taught [tɔːt] ) verb 1) [I/T] to help students to learn something in a school, college, or university by giving lessons She teaches children with learning difficulties.[/ex] How long have you been teaching… …

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  • 17TEACH — (Roget s Thesaurus II) Index teach noun education, educator, illumination adjective didactic, educable, educational, moral, pedantic verb …

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  • 18teach — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To act as teacher] Syn. instruct, tutor, coach, educate, profess, explain, expound, lecture, direct, give a briefing, edify, enlighten, guide, show, give lessons in ground, rear, prepare, fit, interpret, bring up, bring out …

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  • 19teach — [OE] To teach someone is etymologically to ‘show’ them something. The word goes back ultimately to the prehistoric Indo European base *deik ‘show’, which also produced Greek deiknúnai ‘show’ (source of English paradigm [15]) and Latin dīcere… …

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  • 20teach — [OE] To teach someone is etymologically to ‘show’ them something. The word goes back ultimately to the prehistoric Indo European base *deik ‘show’, which also produced Greek deiknúnai ‘show’ (source of English paradigm [15]) and Latin dīcere… …

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