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Teach vs. Instruct

Difference Between Teach and Instruct

Teach

To impart knowledge or skill to
teaches children.
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Instruct

To give orders to; direct
instructed the children to hang up their coats.
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Teach

To provide knowledge of; instruct in
teaches French.
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Instruct

To provide with knowledge; to train or inform
instructed the students in algebra.
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Teach

To condition to a certain action or frame of mind
teaching youngsters to be self-reliant.
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Instruct

To serve as an instructor.
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Teach

To cause to learn by example or experience
an accident that taught me a valuable lesson.
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Instruct

(transitive) To teach by giving instructions.
Listen carefully when someone instructs you how to assemble the furniture.
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Teach

To advocate or preach
teaches racial and religious tolerance.
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Instruct

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

To carry on instruction on a regular basis in
taught high school for many years.
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Instruct

(obsolete) Instruction.
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Teach

To give instruction, especially as an occupation.
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Instruct

(obsolete) Arranged; furnished; provided.
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Teach

A teacher.
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Instruct

(obsolete) Instructed; taught; enlightened.
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Teach

(ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
Can you teach me to sew?
Can you teach sewing to me?
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Instruct

Arranged; furnished; provided.
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Teach

To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
She used to teach at university.
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Instruct

Instructed; taught; enlightened.
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Teach

(ditransitive) To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).
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Instruct

To put in order; to form; to prepare.
They speak to the merits of a cause, after the proctor has prepared and instructed the same for a hearing.
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Teach

(ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.
I'll teach you to make fun of me!
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Instruct

To form by communication of knowledge; to inform the mind of; to impart knowledge or information to; to enlighten; to teach; to discipline.
Schoolmasters will I keep within my house,Fit to instruct her youth.
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Teach

To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
‘The bliss is there’, mumbled the old man and taught to Heaven.
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Instruct

To furnish with directions; to advise; to direct; to command; as, the judge instructs the jury.
She, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
Take her in; instruct her what she has to do.
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Teach

teacher
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Instruct

impart skills or knowledge to;
I taught them French
He instructed me in building a boat
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Teach

To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to teach arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to teach morals.
If some men teach wicked things, it must be that others should practice them.
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Instruct

give instructions or directions for some task;
She instructed the students to work on their pronounciation
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Teach

To direct, as an instructor; to manage, as a preceptor; to guide the studies of; to instruct; to inform; to conduct through a course of studies; as, to teach a child or a class.
The village master taught his little school.
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Instruct

make aware of;
Have the students been apprised of the tuition hike?
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Teach

To accustom; to guide; to show; to admonish.
I shall myself to herbs teach you.
They have taught their tongue to speak lies.
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Teach

To give instruction; to follow the business, or to perform the duties, of a preceptor.
And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.
The priests thereof teach for hire.
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Teach

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

impart skills or knowledge to;
I taught them French
He instructed me in building a boat
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Teach

accustom gradually to some action or attitude;
The child is taught to obey her parents
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