Teach

Definition: Teach

Teach

Noun

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

Verb

1. Impart skills or knowledge to; "I taught them French"; "He instructed me in building a boat".

2. Accustom gradually to some action or attitude; "The child is taught to obey her parents".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Teach" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Teach

Detraction

Phrase: "damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer; and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer"; another lie nailed to the counter; "cut men's throats with whisperings"; "foul whisperings are abroad" "soft-buzzing slander"; "virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes".

Humility

Render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear.

Insolence

Out face, outlook, outstare, outbrazen, outbrave; stare out of countenance; brazen out; lay down the law; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; assume a lofty bearing; talk big, look big; put on big looks, act the grand seigneur; mount the high horse, ride the high horse; toss the head, carry, with a high hand.

Redundancy

Send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere;kill the slain, " gild refined gold", "gild the lily", butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to crack a nut; (waste).

Teaching

Verb: teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor; cram, prime, coach; enlighten; (inform).

Preach to the wise, teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, teach granny to suck eggs; preach to the converted.

Crosswords: Teach

Irish (house), Scottish (a house, nm.ind. house).

And you can teach me this (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Welcome to Planet Maturia, we have much to teach you (The Opposite of Sex; writing credit: Don Roos.)

Wow. How about this: I work for you; in exchange, you teach me how to clean (Léon; writing credit: Luc Besson)

We're gonna teach them wrong from right, we're gonna help them see the light, we're gonna make an offer that they can't refute (History of the World Part 1; writing credit: Mel Brooks)

That'll teach you to lecture me. Get me another anger management therapist (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis)

No matter what they teach you (No Matter What; performing artist: Boyzone)

Let me teach you how to jive and wail (Jump Jive An' Wail; performing artist: Brian Setzer Orchestra; writing credit: L. Prima)

They say I got ta learn, but nobody's here to teach me (Gangsta's Paradise; performing artist: Coolio)

And can you teach me how to dance real slow (American Pie; performing artist: Don McLean)

Or they can degrade, or even worse, they can teach hate (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM)

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. (references; author: Chinese Proverb.)

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. (references; author: unknown)

Children are natural mimics. They act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. (references; author: unknown)

Teach Me! (1968)

For Those Who Teach the Art of Peace (2003)

Teach (2001)

I'll Teach You (1994)

Teach Me Tonight (1990)

TEACH YOUR CHILDREN  (performing artist: Stills & Nash  Crosby)

I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (performing artist: The New Seekers)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Best Stories from the Best Book: And Thou Shalt Teach Them Diligently Unto Thy Children (reference)

• Teach Them Diligently: How to Use the Scriptures in Child Training (reference)

• Teach Ye Diligently (reference)

• Sams Teach Yourself Windows Game Programming with DirectX in 21 Days (With CD-ROM) (reference)

• Inclusion: 450 Strategies for Success: A Practical Guide for All Educators Who Teach Students With Disabilities (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Pc Teach It (reference)

• Teach (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Teach Me Tonight (reference)

• Mom, Can You Teach Me How to Hit? (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Rastafari Teach I Everything (reference)

• Rock n' Roll Songs That Teach (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• LEARN2.COM Teach Yourself PC Maintenance Bundle (VHS Cassette) (reference)

• TEACH ME DRUMS: GETTING STARTED (reference)

• Teach Me Piano (reference)

• Teach Me Piano Deluxe (reference)

• ALFRED Teach Yourself To Play Piano (Windows) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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NRCS walks with the landowners on their family farm in Peoria County, Illinois. Many conservation practices have been installed on the farm which is used to teach local students and residents the values of the agriculture and the benefits it offers wildli. Credit: Bob Nichols.

[Eleventh century anatomical model used to teach physicians location of acupuncture points] / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud..

Papier-mâché dummy used to teach dental hygiene. / [WHO photo]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

She always stood waiting until he came near enough to ask "well, what did they teach you today?". Credit: Library of Congress.

Underpaid teachers are unlikely to teach conservatism. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pogo]. First thing us do in this school is teach you kids all about brotherly lov. Credit: Library of Congress.

This'll teach you a lesson!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Three Communist Party leaders convicted of conspiracy to teach the overthrow of the government are shown at the Supreme Court. Left to right: John Gates of New York, Gus Hall of Cleveland, and Carl Winer of Detroit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Third Officer Jessie Hogan, who has learned to operate efficiently many types of motor transport vehicles, is now competent to teach WAAC trainees to do likewise. Credit: Library of Congress.

I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Nothing, but that the lessons of her past folly might teach her humility and circumspection in future

I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.

I will teach her to spell

To serve me well you all should do me duty, Teach me to be your queen and you my subjects

Very few things would teach such faith

He brought with him pen, ink, and paper, and three or four books, giving me to understand by signs, that he was sent to teach me the language

New England can hire all the wise men in the world to come and teach her, and board them round the while, and not be provincial at all.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Later, special trainers teach the players proper weightlifting techniques. (references)

Your doctor or nurse may teach you to urinate on a schedule that prevents wetting. (references)

Teach children never to handle unfamiliar animals, wild or domestic, even if they appear friendly. (references)

Business

Management needs to teach initiative, self-confidence and dynamism. (references)

Most schools of this sector teach English or other non-Spanish languages. (references)

Primary schools at the village level teach in Tibetan, but these schools usually have only two or three grades. (references)

Children

Somalia

There was a continued influx of foreign Muslim teachers into the country to teach in new private Koranic schools. (references)

Yemen

The Ministry of Education has assigned three teachers to teach students at the disabled-accessible classrooms at the Society's Sana'a branch. (references)

Mexico

In August 2000, the SEP announced the publication of four new books geared to teach children about discrimination, violence in the home, and toleration of differing beliefs. (references)

Civil Liberties

Poland

Catholic Church representatives are employed to teach religious classes in the schools. (references)

Iran

Baha'is may not teach or practice their faith or maintain links with coreligionists abroad. (references)

Mauritania

These classes teach the history and principles of Islam and the classical Arabic of the Koran. (references)

Economic History

Grenada

About 10 Peace Corps volunteers in Grenada teach remedial reading, English-language skills, and vocational training. (references)

Mauritania

Berbers retained influence by producing the majority of the region's Marabouts--those who preserve and teach Islamic tradition. (references)

Guinea

Volunteers teach English and mathematics in high schools, assist in village development and health education, and collaborate with USAID on a natural resources management project. (references)

Human Rights

Belize

During the year, the prison joined with the Fisheries Department to teach aquaculture to inmates. (references)

Brazil

Sao Paulo officials have developed the concept of Centers for Resocialization--prisons which house only 210 prisoners and work in conjunction with NGO's to teach prisoners a skill while they are incarcerated. (references)

Guinea

A human rights office within the Ministry of Defense, International Humanitarian Rights, has conducted more than 100 human rights seminars since 1994 to teach military personnel about human rights recognized by international and regional agreements. (references)

Minorities

Slovak Republic

Two instructors at the Institute teach Ruthenian culture and language. (references)

Vietnam

Officials in Lam Dong Province reportedly have hired ethnic minority persons to teach minority languages to ethnic Kinh police. (references)

Azerbaijan

However, some groups have complained that the authorities restrict their ability to teach or print materials in indigenous languages. (references)

Travel

Ghana

The Lincoln Community School, a U.S. Department of State-supported school, has an American-based curriculum and teachers that are all certified to teach in the U.S. The Lincoln School is planning to offer the International Baccalaureate program effective academic year 2002-2003. The others are the Ghana International School, with a British-based curriculum, and the Kokrobitey School, which has U.S. high school year-abroad programs. (references)

Women

Pakistan

Although a small number of women study and teach in universities, postgraduate employment opportunities for women largely remain limited to teaching, medical services, and the law. (references)

Portugal

The law also calls for the development of new programs to teach anger management to perpetrators and to assist victims with the professional development necessary to live independent lives. (references)

Worker Rights

Indonesia

NGO's have ongoing programs to teach children to avoid hazardous waste such as syringes and other potentially toxic waste. (references)

Djibouti

Kamil Hassan, a schoolteacher, who previously had been detained in 1997 as a leader of a teacher's strike, still was not permitted to teach in public schools. (references)

Seychelles

In January several Kenyan teachers who had been recruited to teach in the country returned to Kenya complaining of poor working conditions and their inability to obtain foreign exchange to repatriate their earnings. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "Teach": don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs ♦ Edward Teach ♦ robot in teach mode ♦ teach granny to suck eggs ♦ teach how to read ♦ teach in ♦ teach manners ♦ teach one's grandmother to suck eggs ♦ teach oneself ♦ teach pendant ♦ teach programming ♦ teach smb. english ♦ teach smb. the facts of life ♦ teach smb.'s lesson. Additional references.

Beginning with "Teach": teach-in, teach-ins, teach-yourself, teach-yourself book, teach-yourself-photography.

Ending with "Teach": self-teach, team-teach.

Afrikaans

oplei (breed, bring, bring up, educate, raise), leer (learn, leather). (various references)

Albanian

mësoj (acquire, attune, be educated, coach, condition, digest, educate, enure, find, find out, get on to, get wind of, hear, illuminate, induct, instruct, inure, learn, school, study, train), jap mësim, familjarizoj me, ambientoj (enure). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لقن (indoctrinate, prompt), ‏علم (adudicate, advertise, advertize, advise, apprise, apprize, banner, bar, bunting, coach, cognizance, cognize, drill, educate, flag, indoctrinate, inform, instruct, know, knowledge, learning, let know, locate, mark, mark out, notify, post, profess, read, scholarship, school, science, standard, tell, tick), ‏درس (case, classes, consideration, din into, elaborate, examine, excogitate, go over, instruction, learn, learning, lecture, lesson, period, profess, read, read up, reading, study, talk over, think out, tutor, view). (various references)

Aymara

yatichaña (to teach). (various references)

Blackfoot

ssksinimá'tstohki (to teach). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уча (get up, instruct, learn, lesson, read, school, study, tutor), отучвам (break, break smb. of the habit, unteach, wean), обучавам (discipline, drill, form, ground, instruct, lesson, pace, school, take, train, tutor, verse), научавам (acquire, hear, learn, pick up, read up, understand), преподавам (learn, profess, read), приучавам (accustom, flesh, school, wont), поучавам (admonish, edify, instruct, lecture, moralize, preach), давам някому да се разбере. (various references)

Chinese 

教 (religion, teaching). (various references)

Czech

vyuèovat (instruct), uèit (instruct). (various references)

Danish

undervise. (various references)

Dutch

afwennen (break of a habit, break oneself of a habit, get out of a habit, unlearn), afleren (break of a habit, break oneself of a habit, forget, get out of a habit, unlearn). (various references)

Esperanto

lernigi, instrui, dekutimigi (break of a habit). (various references)

Faeroese

undirvísa, læra (breed, bring up, educate, learn, raise), kenna (be acquainted with, feel, go through, know, live to see, sense). (various references)

Farsi 

معلمی یاتدریس کردن , مشق دادن , تعلیم دادن (Drill, Educate, Enlighten, Guide), اموختن (Indoctrinate, Learn, Tent, Wit), درس دادن . (various references)

Finnish

opettaa (instruct, train). (various references)

French

enseigner (tell), instruire, apprendre. (various references)

Frisian

leare (learn, leather, to learn), ôfwenne (break of a habit, break oneself of a habit, get out of a habit, unlearn). (various references)

German

lehren (doctrines, lecture, school, taught, teaching, tenets, to teach), unterrichten (educate, inform, instruct, notify, school, take, taught, teaching, to instruct, train), belehren (advise, inform, instruct, to instruct), beibringen (break to, furnish, get across to, get to understand, inflict, instill, produce, supply). (various references)

Greek 

διδάσκω (educate, instruct, lecture). (various references)

Hebrew 

לימד, ללמד (indoctrinate, instruct, practise, train), לאלף (acquire knowledge, learn, tame, train), לחנך (educate, habituate, rear, tutor), לחנוך (bring up, coach, consecrate, dedicate, educate, inaugurate, train, tutor), להורות (command, direct, instruct, show, tell), להשנות (instruct, repeat). (various references)

Hungarian

tanít (instruct, lecture, profess, school, taught, to edify, to educate, to instruct, to profess, to teach), oktat (edify, educate, instruct, to coach, to edify, to educate, to instruct, to school, train, tutor). (various references)

Indonesian

menggurui, mengajarkan (lecture, preach), mengajar (coach, give, instruct, train), mempelajarkan (offer as instruction). (various references)

Italian

insegnare (acquaint, announce, inform, instruct, let know, profess, report), istruire (direct, educate, give instructions to, instruct, schoolhouses, schools, train), instruire. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

訓迪 (guide, master). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くんてき (guide, master). (various references)

Korean 

가르치십시요. (various references)

Malay

ajar ... mengajar. (various references)

Manx

ynsaghey (educate, instruct, learn, master; training, pedagogy, train, tutor). (various references)

Maori

ako-na (to teach). (various references)

Maya

ka'ans (to teach). (various references)

Norwegian

lære (learn). (various references)

Papago

mashcham (to teach). (various references)

Papiamen

instruí. (various references)

Pig Latin

eachtay.(various references)

Polish

nauczać. (various references)

Portuguese

ensinar (coach, discipline, drill, educate, indoctrinate, initiate, instruct, lead off, manage, school, tame, train), lecionar (tutor), instruir (acquaint, coach, educate, enlighten, instruct, post, prime, school, train, tutor). (various references)

Romanian

propovãdui (preach), preda (deliver, give, give up, profess, render, surrender, yield), lumina (appear, beacon, brighten, burn, clarify, comprehend, enlighten, explain, illuminate, lamp, light, light up, lighten, shine, understand), instrui (coach, cultivate, drill, exercise, instruct, school, train), dãscãli (jaw, reprimand, sermonize, tease), cãlãuzi (advise, guide, head, pilot, prevent), arãta (appear, bespeak, betoken, carry forth, connote, demonstrate, designate, display, evidence, evince, exhibit, lay out, look, Mark, point, point out, produce, prove, put up, read, record, reveal, rise, seem, set, show, show up, signify, trot out), învãţa (bone, drill, educate, ground, indoctrinate, instruct, inure, learn, master, read, school, study, train). (various references)

Romansch

instruir (to teach). (various references)

Romany

sikavàv (to teach). (various references)

Russian 

учить (learn, taught, train, train up). (various references)

Scottish

teagaisg (instruct), muin (back part of the neck and region immediately, instruct, the back), ionnsaich (learn). (various references)

Sepedi

ruta (to teach). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

učiti (instruct, learn, lesson, study, train), predavati (discourse, prelect, profess), podučiti (coach), podučavati (coach, tutor), obučiti (train), obučavati (drill, train), naučiti (learn, pick up, train), biti učitelj, biti nastavnik. (various references)

Shona

-dzidzisa (to teach). (various references)

Sicilian

insignari (to teach). (various references)

Spanish

enseñar (chasten, chastise, civilize, educate, hold up, indicate, instruct, learn, point out, profess, school, show, suggest, train, tutor). (various references)

Sranan

leri (learn). (various references)

Swazi

kú-fundísa (to teach). (various references)

Swedish

undervisa (educate, instruct, take, train), lära (doctrine, educate, faith, instruct, learn, learning, science, teaching), instruera (instruct, prime). (various references)

Thai

สอน (วิชา), สั่งสอน (lesson). (various references)

Turkish

okutmak (educate, instruct), göstermek (adduce, betoken, demonstrate, denote, depict, designate, disclose, display, evidence, exercise, exhibit, expose, hold up, indicate, initiate, introduce, look, manifest, point, point out, point to, produce, prove, put forth, register, represent, run, set out, shew, show, show off, show up, signify, speak, stamp, table, trot out, uncork), eğitmek (coach, condition, educate, handle, school, train), ders vermek (give a good lesson, give a lecture, give a lesson, lecture, prelect, school), öğretmenlik yapmak, öğretmek (enlighten, indoctrinate, initiate, instruct, introduce, profess, school, show). (various references)

Turkmen 

okatmak, цwretmek (instruct). (various references)

Ukrainian

учителювати, учити (instruct, lesson, study), викладати (couch, pose, profess, put, recite, set forward, utter), навчати (breed, discipline, nurture, qualify, re educate, tutor). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cuộc hội thảo (teach-in). (various references)

Welsh

dysgu (learn), athrawiaethu (indoctrinate, instruct), addysgu (educate, instruct). (various references)

Xhosa

sizifundise (We teach ourselves). (various references)

Yucatec

ka'nsik. (various references)

Zulu

-fundisa. (various references)

cappadoces, conformari, conformes, doce, doceam, doceamini, doceant, doceantque, doceas, doceat, doceatisque, docebant, docebantque, docebat, docebis, docebit, docebitis, docebo, doceboque, docebunt, docendo, docendum, docens, docente, docentes, docentium, doceo, doceo docui doctum, docere, docerem, docerent, doceret, doceretis, doces, docet, docete, docibilem, docibiles, docta, doctae, doctas, docte, docti, doctis, doctorum, doctos, doctrix, docturus, doctus, docuerat, docuerim, docuerint, docueris, docuerit, docuero, docuerunt, docui, docuissent, docuisti, docuit, erodii, erudi, erudiar, erudiebant, erudiendum, erudiens, erudieris, erudieritis, erudierunt, erudiet, erudietur, erudimini, erudio, erudire, erudirem, erudiret, erudiri, erudisti, erudit, eruditae, eruditam, eruditi, eruditique, eruditis, erudito, eruditor, eruditorem, eruditores, eruditos, eruditum, eruditus, erudiunt, erudivi, erudivit, instruam, instruat, instructa, instructi, instructus, instrue, instruebat, instruere, instrueret, instruis, instruite, instruxerunt, instruxit, monens, monent, monentes, monentis, moneret, monita, monstra, monstrabatur, monstrabo, monstraret, monstratum, monstratur, monstraverim, monstravero, monstravi, monstravit, monuit, praeceperam, praeceperas, praeceperat, praeceperis, praeceperit, praecepero, praeceperunt, praeceperuntque, praecepi, praecepimus, praecepique, praecepisse, praecepisset, praecepisti, praecepit, praecepitque, praecepta, praecepti, praeceptis, praecepto, praeceptorum, praeceptum, praecepturus, praecipe, praeciperent, praecipiam, praecipiat, praecipiebat, praecipiendo, praecipiendum, praecipiens, praecipiente, praecipientes, praecipientium, praecipies, praecipiet, praecipio, praecipis, praecipit, prodoceo, salomone, tradidi, trado, trado, tradidi, traditum. (various references)

disyât. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "Teach": teachable, teachableness, teachablenesses, teachably, teacher, teacherly, teachers, teaches, teaching, teachings. (additional references)

Words ending with "Teach": misteach, reteach, unteach. (additional references)

Words containing "Teach": misteaches, misteaching, nonteaching, reteaches, reteaching, schoolteacher, schoolteachers, unteachable, unteaches, unteaching. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Teach" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: etah, etak, gemacht, seach, Shiach, tachy, teac, teace, teacg, teache, teachi, teachs, Teachta, teachy, teacs, teaech, teah, teaky, tealh, teath, techa, teche, techx, teecy, teik, tenach, tetch, teuch, thach, theak, Tikcha, Tkach, Tkacz, toach, trach, tsac, tseuc, Tuak, Tyecha, Tyzak, weach. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cheat, tache, theca.

-1 letter: ache, cate, chat, each, eath, etch, haet, hate, heat, tace, tach, thae.

-2 letters: ace, act, ate, cat, eat, eta, eth, hae, hat, het, tae, tea, the.

-3 letters: ae, ah, at, eh, et, ha, he, ta.

+1 letter: cachet, chaeta, chalet, chaste, cheats, chetah, detach, hepcat, rachet, sachet, scathe, taches, thecae, thecal.

+2 letters: achiest, achiote, aitches, aphetic, attache, batched, batcher, batches, brachet, cachets, catcher, catches, catechu, cathead, cathect, cathode, chaetae, chaetal, chalets, chanted, chanter, chantey, chaplet, chapter, charted, charter, chasten, chaster, chateau, chatted, chattel, chatter, chayote, cheated, cheater, cheetah, chelate, chetahs, cholate, ecthyma, enchant, escheat, etchant, ethical, hatched, hatchel, hatcher, hatches, hatchet, hectare, hellcat, hematic, hepatic, hepcats, hotcake, latched, latches, latchet, machete, manchet, matched, matcher, matches, ootheca, patched, patcher, patches, rachets, ratches, ratchet, rechart, recheat, rematch, repatch, reteach, sachets, satchel, scathed, scathes, teacher, teaches, thacked, thecate, theriac, trachea, trachle, tranche, unteach, watched, watcher, watches, yachted, yachter.