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TEACH (taught)

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Teach mean?

• TEACH (noun)
The noun TEACH has 1 sense:

1. an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)

Familiarity information: TEACH used as a noun is very rare.

• TEACH (verb)
The verb TEACH has 2 senses:

1. impart skills or knowledge to
2. accustom gradually to some action or attitude

Familiarity information: TEACH used as a verb is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• TEACH (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Blackbeard; Edward Teach; Edward Thatch; Teach; Thatch

Instance hypernyms:

buccaneer; pirate; sea robber; sea rover (someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation)

• TEACH (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Impart skills or knowledge to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

instruct; teach; learn

Context examples:

I taught them French / He instructed me in building a boat

Hypernyms (to "teach" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to)

Cause:

acquire; larn; learn (gain knowledge or skills)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "teach"):

develop; educate; prepare; train (create by training and teaching)

edify; enlighten (make understand)

coach; train (teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports)

lecture; talk (deliver a lecture or talk)

ground (instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject)

unteach (cause to unlearn)

unteach (cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier)

tutor (be a tutor to someone; give individual instruction)

mentor (serve as a teacher or trusted counselor)

induct (introduce or initiate)

spoonfeed (teach without challenging the students)

reinforce; reward (strengthen and support with rewards)

catechise; catechize (give religious instructions to)

drill (teach by repetition)

indoctrinate (teach doctrines to; teach uncritically)

condition (establish a conditioned response)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence examples:

The parents teach a French poem to the children
The parents teach the children a French poem

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Accustom gradually to some action or attitude

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The child is taught to obey her parents

Hypernyms (to "teach" is one way to...):

accustom; habituate (make psychologically or physically used (to something))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

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