Word Finder - teach

definition

To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.

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‘The bliss is there’, mumbled the old man and taught to Heaven.

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(ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.

example

Can you teach me to sew?  Can you teach sewing to me?

synonyms

• educate
• instruct

definition

To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.

example

She used to teach at university.

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(ditransitive) To cause to learn or understand.

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(ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.

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I'll teach you to make fun of me!

You teach them to respect people.

Now you can teach me.

Are you going to teach him to use it?

We'll teach you to do it the right way.

Are you going to teach me to fight?

Or you can teach me a few things.

How did he teach you to use your body?

My brother says your home is very different, that we need to teach you everything.

It didn't teach her anything, either.

I would teach you how to draw pictures of sheep and horses, and even of men, said the stranger.

I'll teach you the first weapons form we teach our warriors.

I'm a little too old to teach to fight.

A combatant in the volunteer corps during the war of 1848, he returned to Brescia after the defeat of Novara, and for a time earned a livelihood by teaching law, but was molested by the Austrian police and forbidden to teach in consequence of his refusal to contribute pro-Austrian articles to the press.

Miss Sullivan began to teach Helen Keller on March 3rd, 1887.

Minor schools attached to mosques are found in other places, but teach still less than the great schools already mentioned.

Mazarin was not a Frenchman, but a citizen of the world, and always paid most attention to foreign affairs; in his letters all that could teach a diplomatist is to be found, broad general views of policy, minute details carefully elaborated, keen insight into men's characters, cunning directions when to dissimulate or when to be frank.

The death of his mother in 1762 having deprived him of his means of support, he went in 1763 on the invitation of the pastor of the Lutheran community, Anton Friedrich Biisching, the founder of the modern historic statistical method of geography, to teach natural history in the Lutheran academy, St Petersburg.

Richard Simon undertook to teach him Hebrew and Biblical criticism with no better success.

Orthodox Jews refused to teach those who were not of their faith, and on the other hand many churchmen conscientiously believed in the duty of entirely suppressing Jewish learning.

All grow from small beginnings and increase by a sort of popular contagion; all teach that God is to be appeased by prayers, presents, vows, but especially, and most irrationally, by human suffering.

He learned Latin from Vittorino da Feltre, and made such rapid progress that in three years he was able to teach Latin literature and rhetoric. His reputation as a teacher and a translator of Aristotle was very great, and he was selected as secretary by Pope Nicholas V., an ardent Aristotelian.

In 383 the emperor Theodosius, who had demanded a declaration of faith from all party leaders, punished Eunomius for continuing to teach his distinctive doctrines, by banishing him to Halmyris in Moesia.

In it are the business and industrial quarters; the palace of justice; the academy of science, with picture-galleries, a library and a collection of antiquities; the theatre; the Franz Josef University, founded in 1874 to teach theology, law and philosophy; the synagogue; and the only Protestant church existing in the country at the beginning of the 10th century.

The Greeks of Sicily had had no such military practice as the Greeks of old Greece; but an able commander could teach both Siceliot soldiers and Siceliot seamen to out-manoeuvre Athenians.

His father, a district physician, died early, and the boy, after attending the gymnasium of Czernowitz, was obliged to teach in order to support himself and prepare for academic study.

The Pyramid texts and the Book of the Dead are the most important of these, and teach us much about the dangers and needs that attended the dead man beyond the tomb, and about the manner in which it was thought, they could be counteracted.

Our task is not to rule the Egyptians, but as far as possible to teach the Egyptians to rule themselves..

Originally the latter part of the verse must have run, "That I may give thee the tables of stone which I have written, and may teach thee the law and the commandment."

The student's chief task is to know the rules by heart; this accomplished, he is dismissed at the end of the year with a certificate (ijaza), entered in his textbook, which permits him to teach it to others.

I will teach you afresh, unless you behave better.

In 1830 he became assistant to a country clergyman, and nine months later accepted the post of professor in the high school at Maulbronn, having to teach Latin, history and Hebrew.

Parents should teach children to run away from danger, never towards it.

Medical personnel can teach parents about safe practices for handling an infant with a virus infection that can possibly spread to family members.

While discipline in necessary to teach a child how to live comfortably in society, it should not be confused with punishment.

Many use familiar characters to teach basic things such as shape matching, the alphabet, and counting.

What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy.

Parents may experience their first opportunities to teach about peer pressure and independent decision-making over toy requests.

Biofeedback training may be used to teach the patient how to consciously reduce muscle tension.

In addition, parents can teach their child how to ask for help.

The use of educational programs to teach caregivers good parenting skills and to be aware of abusive behaviors so that they seek help for abusive tendencies is critical to stopping abuse.

They should also teach their children to report abuse to a trusted adult.

Parents should teach children not to share drinks, food, or eating utensils, and not to exchange kisses with someone with mouth sores.

It also can teach the child various coping strategies.

An RD can also teach the family how to use either the dietary exchange lists or carbohydrate counting system to monitor food intake.

It is important to teach children and adolescents to handle their hair with care, especially when shampooing, drying, brushing, combing, braiding, and using chemical processes.

School-based programs from early childhood onward that teach conflict resolution, emotional literacy, and anger management skills have been shown to interrupt the development of antisocial behavior in low-risk students.

Teach therapeutic coping mechanisms by modeling how to handle stress, pain, or tension in healthy ways, by exercising, using yoga and meditation, and talking about feelings.

The term "discipline" comes from the Latin word "disciplinare," which means "to teach."

Discipline, properly practiced, uses a multifaceted approach, including models, rewards, and punishments that teach and reinforce desired behavior.

Doing so can teach decision-making, enhance children's moral judgment, and reinforce independence.