| 单词 | instruct |
| 释义 | instruct (once / 69 pages) v This website is designed to instruct visitors about the meaning of words and their correct usage. To instruct is to give instructions, to teach. Teachers are often called instructors because their job is to instruct, to give knowledge or instructions. The subtle difference between "teach" and instruct is that you can teach almost anything: concepts, ideas, theories or, say, history. When you instruct someone, you're giving them a set of tools or tasks to do something specific. That's why furniture, toys, and model rocket kits come with instructions: they instruct you how to assemble them. WORD FAMILYinstruct: instructed, instructing, instruction, instructive, instructor, instructs+/instructed: uninstructed/instruction: instructional, instructions/instructive: instructively, uninstructive/instructor: instructors, instructorship/instructorship: instructorships/uninstructive: uninstructively USAGE EXAMPLESIn late August, on the day before classes resumed, Harriott instructed his team to comply with St. Thomas’s grooming standards. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) The older woman is instructing the younger one, who is lost in thought in the midst of crushing garlic with a copper mortar and pestle. Salon(Jan 01, 2017) Nashville police, when responding to domestic violence calls, are instructed to arrest the primary aggressor. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1v impart skills or knowledge to He instructed me in building a boat Syn|Hypo|Hyper learn, teach develop, educate, prepare, train create by training and teaching indoctrinateteach doctrines to; teach uncritically drillteach by repetition catechise, catechizegive religious instructions to reinforce, rewardstrengthen and support with rewards spoonfeedteach without challenging the students inductintroduce or initiate mentorserve as a teacher or trusted counselor tutorbe a tutor to someone; give individual instruction unteachcause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier unteachcause to unlearn groundinstruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject lecture, talkdeliver a lecture or talk coach, trainteach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports edify, enlightenmake understand conditionestablish a conditioned response retrainteach new skills drilltrain in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons house-train, housebreaktrain (a pet) to live cleanly in a house toilet-traintrain (a small child) to use the toilet inspire, revolutionise, revolutionizefill with revolutionary ideas brainwashsubmit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly beat in, drill in, hammer in, ram downteach by drills and repetition inculcate, infuse, instillteach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions preach, prophesydeliver a sermon inform impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to 2v make aware of Syn|Hypo|Hyper apprise, apprize direct give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction briefgive essential information to someone talk downdirect and control (the flight of an airplane during landing) via radio point the wayindicate the right path or direction inform impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to 3v give instructions or directions for some task She instructed the students to work on their pronunciation Hypo|Hyper charge instruct or command with authority chargeinstruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence enjoin, order, say, tell give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority |
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