instruct — Dizionario inglese

Verbo

1. To teach by giving instructions.

   Uso

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   Sinonimi

   educateguide

   Esempi

   Listen carefully when someone instructs you how to assemble the furniture.

   Supply me with the habit and instruct me How I may formally in person bear me Like a true friar.

   Altri esempi (4)

   What a dishonour’s this, to me, to have so Dull a Father, that needs to be instructed in his Duty.

   1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 156, 14 September, 1751, in Volume 5, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 177, […] the design of tragedy is to instruct by moving the passions,

   […] I should deem you a man sore sick, it may be, yet not so sick but that an instructed and watchful physician might well hope to cure you.

   At the Laundromat I instruct Chris on how to operate the drier, start the washing machines […]

2. To tell (someone) what they must or should do.

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   commanddirectorder

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   Usage note: "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier than "advise"

   The doctor instructed me to keep my arm immobilised and begin physiotherapy.

   Altri esempi (3)

   What, shall a child instruct you what to do?

   All the servants were instructed to address her as “Mum,” or “Madam” […]

   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.”

3. 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.

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   If you're not careful, I'm going to instruct a solicitor over this.

Sostantivo

1. Instruction.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

Aggettivo

1. Arranged; furnished; provided.

   Uso

   • not-comparable
   • obsoleto

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   For he had neither ship, instruct with oares, Nor men to fetch him from those stranger shores.

2. Instructed; taught; enlightened.

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   • not-comparable
   • obsoleto

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   Who ever by consulting at thy shrine Return’d the wiser, or the more instruct To flye or follow what concern’d him most, And run not sooner to his fatal snare?

Verbo

1. impart skills or knowledge to

   Sinonimi

   teachlearn

   Termini più generali

   inform

   Esempi

   I taught them French

   He instructed me in building a boat

2. give instructions or directions for some task

   Termini più generali

   ordertellenjoinsay

   Esempi

   She instructed the students to work on their pronunciation

3. make aware of

   Sinonimi

   appriseapprize

   Termini più generali

   inform

   Esempi

   Have the students been apprised of the tuition hike?