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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ɪnˈstɹʌkt/ [UK, US], /ɪnˈstɹakt/ [General-Australian] Audio: en-us-instruct.ogg
Rhymes: -ʌkt Etymology: From Latin īnstrūctus, perfect passive participle of īnstruō (“I instruct; I arrange, furnish, or provide”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*strew-}}, {{uder|en|la|īnstrūctus}} Latin īnstrūctus Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} instruct (not comparable)
  1. (obsolete) Arranged; furnished; provided. Tags: not-comparable, obsolete
    Sense id: en-instruct-en-adj-LI487tTU
  2. (obsolete) Instructed; taught; enlightened. Tags: not-comparable, obsolete
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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɪnˈstɹʌkt/ [UK, US], /ɪnˈstɹakt/ [General-Australian] Audio: en-us-instruct.ogg Forms: instructs [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌkt Etymology: From Latin īnstrūctus, perfect passive participle of īnstruō (“I instruct; I arrange, furnish, or provide”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*strew-}}, {{uder|en|la|īnstrūctus}} Latin īnstrūctus Head templates: {{en-noun}} instruct (plural instructs)
  1. (obsolete) Instruction. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-instruct-en-noun-uPIzg~ZA Categories (other): Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 8 28 31 13 10 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 5 31 28 16 8 13

Verb [English]

IPA: /ɪnˈstɹʌkt/ [UK, US], /ɪnˈstɹakt/ [General-Australian] Audio: en-us-instruct.ogg Forms: instructs [present, singular, third-person], instructing [participle, present], instructed [participle, past], instructed [past]
Rhymes: -ʌkt Etymology: From Latin īnstrūctus, perfect passive participle of īnstruō (“I instruct; I arrange, furnish, or provide”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*strew-}}, {{uder|en|la|īnstrūctus}} Latin īnstrūctus Head templates: {{en-verb}} instruct (third-person singular simple present instructs, present participle instructing, simple past and past participle instructed)
  1. (transitive) To teach by giving instructions. Tags: transitive Synonyms: educate, guide Translations (teach, give instruction): διδάσκω (didáskō) (Ancient Greek), μαθητεύω (mathēteúō) (Ancient Greek), κατηχέω (katēkhéō) (Ancient Greek), لقَّن (Arabic), təlim etmək (Azerbaijani), уча (uča) (Bulgarian), обучавам (obučavam) (Bulgarian), инструктирам (instruktiram) (Bulgarian), instruir (Catalan), ᏕᎨᏲᎲᏍᎦ (degeyohvsga) (Cherokee), (jiāo) (english: teach) (Chinese Mandarin), 教育 (jiàoyù) (english: educate) (Chinese Mandarin), 指示 (zhǐshì) (english: point out) (Chinese Mandarin), adhyski (Cornish), dyski [Revived-Middle-Cornish] (Cornish), deski [Revived-Late-Cornish] (Cornish), instruere (Danish), lære (Danish), instrueren (Dutch), instrui (Esperanto), opettaa (Finnish), neuvoa (Finnish), opastaa (Finnish), instruire (French), enseigner (French), apprendre (French), instruieren (German), briefen (German), 𐍄𐌰𐌻𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (talzjan) (Gothic), tájékoztat (Hungarian), tanít (Hungarian), oktat (Hungarian), teagasc (Irish), addoceō (Latin), doceō (Latin), usomedza (Maore Comorian), ufundisha (Ngazidja Comorian), инструкти́ровать (instruktírovatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), शास्ति (śāsti) (Sanskrit), instruir (Spanish), instruera (Swedish), āks- (Tocharian B), 𐎍𐎎𐎄 (lmd) (Ugaritic)
    Sense id: en-instruct-en-verb-Ny3Nlr~b Categories (other): Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 8 28 31 13 10 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 5 31 28 16 8 13 Disambiguation of 'teach, give instruction': 72 8 20
  2. (transitive) To tell (someone) what they must or should do. Tags: transitive Synonyms: command, direct, order Translations (order, direct): заповядвам (zapovjadvam) (Bulgarian), 指令 (zhǐlìng) (english: order) (Chinese Mandarin), 聘請 (Chinese Mandarin), 聘请 (pìnqǐng) (english: instruct (a solicitor, etc.)) (Chinese Mandarin), anvise (Danish), instrukcii (Esperanto), ohjata (Finnish), käskeä (Finnish), opastaa (Finnish), anweisen (German), utasít (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-instruct-en-verb-oeRcsgZF Disambiguation of 'order, direct': 0 100 0
  3. (transitive) To give (one's own lawyer) legal instructions as to how they should act in relation to a particular issue; thereby formally appointing them as one's own legal representative in relation to it. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-instruct-en-verb-bw9RG20- Categories (other): Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 8 28 31 13 10 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 5 31 28 16 8 13
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: instructable, instructible, instruction, instructive, instructor, instructress, overinstruct, reinstruct, underinstruct, uninstructed

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, chapter 29, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, →ISBN, part 4, page 353:",
          "text": "At the Laundromat I instruct Chris on how to operate the drier, start the washing machines […]",
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "teach, give instruction",
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          "code": "fr",
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          "roman": "mathēteúō",
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          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "katēkhéō",
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "teach, give instruction",
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "teach, give instruction",
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          "_dis1": "72 8 20",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "teach, give instruction",
          "word": "oktat"
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          "_dis1": "72 8 20",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "teach, give instruction",
          "word": "teagasc"
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          "_dis1": "72 8 20",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "teach, give instruction",
          "word": "addoceō"
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          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "teach, give instruction",
          "word": "doceō"
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          "sense": "teach, give instruction",
          "word": "usomedza"
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          "code": "zdj",
          "lang": "Ngazidja Comorian",
          "sense": "teach, give instruction",
          "word": "ufundisha"
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          "_dis1": "72 8 20",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "instruktírovatʹ",
          "sense": "teach, give instruction",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "инструкти́ровать"
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          "code": "sa",
          "lang": "Sanskrit",
          "roman": "śāsti",
          "sense": "teach, give instruction",
          "word": "शास्ति"
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          "_dis1": "72 8 20",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "teach, give instruction",
          "word": "instruir"
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          "_dis1": "72 8 20",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "teach, give instruction",
          "word": "instruera"
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          "_dis1": "72 8 20",
          "code": "txb",
          "lang": "Tocharian B",
          "sense": "teach, give instruction",
          "word": "āks-"
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          "_dis1": "72 8 20",
          "code": "uga",
          "lang": "Ugaritic",
          "roman": "lmd",
          "sense": "teach, give instruction",
          "word": "𐎍𐎎𐎄"
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        {
          "text": "Usage note: \"instruct\" is less forceful than \"order\", but weightier than \"advise\""
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          "text": "The doctor instructed me to keep my arm immobilised and begin physiotherapy.",
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          "ref": "1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:",
          "text": "What, shall a child instruct you what to do?",
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          "ref": "1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 39, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:",
          "text": "All the servants were instructed to address her as “Mum,” or “Madam” […]",
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          "ref": "1989, John Irving, chapter 5, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: Ballantine, published 1997, page 195:",
          "text": "Observing that the Christ Child’s nose was running, she deftly wiped it; then she held the handkerchief in place, while instructing him to “blow.”",
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        "(transitive) To tell (someone) what they must or should do."
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          "roman": "zapovjadvam",
          "sense": "order, direct",
          "word": "заповядвам"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "english": "order",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhǐlìng",
          "sense": "order, direct",
          "word": "指令"
        },
        {
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "order, direct",
          "word": "聘請"
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        {
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          "code": "cmn",
          "english": "instruct (a solicitor, etc.)",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "pìnqǐng",
          "sense": "order, direct",
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "لقَّن"
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      "code": "az",
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      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "təlim etmək"
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "uča",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "уча"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "obučavam",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "обучавам"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "instruktiram",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "инструктирам"
    },
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "instruir"
    },
    {
      "code": "chr",
      "lang": "Cherokee",
      "roman": "degeyohvsga",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "ᏕᎨᏲᎲᏍᎦ"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "english": "teach",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiāo",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "教"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "english": "educate",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiàoyù",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "教育"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "english": "point out",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhǐshì",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "指示"
    },
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      "code": "kw",
      "lang": "Cornish",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "adhyski"
    },
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      "code": "kw",
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      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "instruere"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "lære"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "instrueren"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "instrui"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "opettaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "neuvoa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "opastaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "instruire"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "enseigner"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "apprendre"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "instruieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "briefen"
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      "code": "got",
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      "roman": "talzjan",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
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      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "διδάσκω"
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      "roman": "mathēteúō",
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      "word": "μαθητεύω"
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      "roman": "katēkhéō",
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      "word": "κατηχέω"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "tájékoztat"
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "tanít"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "oktat"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "teagasc"
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      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "addoceō"
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      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "doceō"
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      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
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      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "ufundisha"
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      "word": "инструкти́ровать"
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      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "śāsti",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "शास्ति"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "instruir"
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "instruera"
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      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "āks-"
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      "code": "uga",
      "lang": "Ugaritic",
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      "sense": "teach, give instruction",
      "word": "𐎍𐎎𐎄"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
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      "sense": "order, direct",
      "word": "заповядвам"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "zhǐlìng",
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      "word": "指令"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "order, direct",
      "word": "聘請"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "english": "instruct (a solicitor, etc.)",
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      "roman": "pìnqǐng",
      "sense": "order, direct",
      "word": "聘请"
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "order, direct",
      "word": "anvise"
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "order, direct",
      "word": "instrukcii"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "word": "ohjata"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "order, direct",
      "word": "käskeä"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "order, direct",
      "word": "opastaa"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "order, direct",
      "word": "anweisen"
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      "code": "hu",
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