instruct — Słownik języka angielskiego

Czasownik

1. To teach by giving instructions.

   Użycie

   • przechodnie

   Synonimy

   educateguide

   Przykłady

   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.

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   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.

   Użycie

   • przechodnie

   Synonimy

   commanddirectorder

   Przykłady

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

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

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   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.

   Użycie

   • przechodnie

   Przykłady

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

Rzeczownik

1. Instruction.

   Użycie

   • wyszłe z użycia

Przymiotnik

1. Arranged; furnished; provided.

   Użycie

   • not-comparable
   • wyszłe z użycia

   Przykłady

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

2. Instructed; taught; enlightened.

   Użycie

   • not-comparable
   • wyszłe z użycia

   Przykłady

   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?

Czasownik

1. impart skills or knowledge to

   Synonimy

   teachlearn

   Terminy szersze

   inform

   Przykłady

   I taught them French

   He instructed me in building a boat

2. give instructions or directions for some task

   Terminy szersze

   ordertellenjoinsay

   Przykłady

   She instructed the students to work on their pronunciation

3. make aware of

   Synonimy

   appriseapprize

   Terminy szersze

   inform

   Przykłady

   Have the students been apprised of the tuition hike?