[
UK
/ɪnstɹˈʌkt/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈstɹəkt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈstɹəkt/ ]
VERB
-
impart skills or knowledge to
He instructed me in building a boat
I taught them French -
make aware of
Have the students been apprised of the tuition hike? -
give instructions or directions for some task
She instructed the students to work on their pronunciation
How To Use instruct In A Sentence
- The recent U.S. ranking by the World Economic Forum of 48th out of 133 developed or developing nations in quality of math and science instruction is a siren call. Jacqueline Edelberg: Political Will
- That not only means that more information can be crunched at once, but these chips can also handle more complex instructions.
- In an attempt to break the strike, management used megaphones to instruct the afternoon shift, who were gathered in a car park, to return to work or face immediate dismissal.
- This includes such things as computer-assisted instruction, teaching machines, programs, television, and other audiovisual devices.
- By her own instruction she moaned and whined a lot.
- The bundled documentation contains the detailed instructions on how to do these tasks.
- I sought express instructions that I was to make this argument and the Commissioner recognises that sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
- Or apply metal studs, according to the instructions provided with the package.
- And this is the cause that disputes with such persons are generally fruitless, especially as immixed with that intemporancy of reviling other men wherein they exceed; for if that be a way either of learning or teaching of the truth, it is what the Scripture hath not instructed us in. Pneumatologia
- Figures due out on November 21 might be instructive but a merger deal is not thought likely to figure in the statement.
