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teaching (root: teach)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun teaching has 3 senses
- teaching(n = noun.act) instruction, pedagogy - the profession of a teacher; "he prepared for teaching while still in college"; "pedagogy is recognized as an important profession" is a kind of education
- teaching(n = noun.cognition) commandment, precept - a doctrine that is taught; "the teachings of religion"; "he believed all the Christian precepts" is a kind of doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought
- teaching(n = noun.act) didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy - the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruction was carefully programmed"; "good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded" is a kind of activity
has particulars: catechesis, catechetical instruction, language teaching, teaching reading, schooling, indoctrination, tuition, tutelage, tutorship, lesson, hypnopedia, sleep-learning, spoonfeeding, lecture, lecturing
has particulars: golden rule, mitsvah, mitzvah
has parts: classroom project, classwork, homework, prep, preparation, lesson
has particulars: coeducation, continuing education, class, course, course of instruction, course of study, elementary education, extension, extension service, university extension, extracurricular activity, higher education, secondary education, team teaching, work-study program
Derived form verb teach1
CIDE DICTIONARY
teaching, n.
The act or business of instructing; also, that which is taught; instruction. [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Education; instruction; breeding. See Education.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
teaching, n.
1 the profession of a teacher.
2 (often in pl.) what is taught; a doctrine.
1 the profession of a teacher.
2 (often in pl.) what is taught; a doctrine.
Idiom
teaching hospital a hospital where medical students are taught. teaching machine any of various devices for giving instruction according to a programme measuring pupils' responses.
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teaching
a belief, adage, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, article of faith, assignment, autodidactic, axiom, belief, byword, canon, catchword, chalk talk, charge, coeducational, collected sayings, command, commission, credo, creed, cultural, current saying, dictate, dictum, didactic, direction, disciplinary, discourse, disquisition, distich, doctrine, dogma, edifying, educating, educational, educative, enlightening, epigram, exercise, exhortatory, exposition, expression, faith, gnome, golden saying, harangue, homework, homiletic, homily, hortatory, illuminating, informative, initiatory, injunction, instruction, instructive, introductory, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lecturing, lesson, maxim, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, mot, motto, object lesson, oracle, order, orthodoxy, phrase, pithy saying, preaching, preachment, precept, preceptive, prescript, prescription, principle, propaedeutic, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, recital, recitation, religion, religious belief, religious faith, saw, saying, self-teaching, sentence, sententious expression, sermon, set task, skull session, sloka, stock saying, sutra, system of beliefs, talk, task, tenet, text, theology, tradition, tuitionary, verse, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, words of wisdomROGET THESAURUS
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Teaching
N teaching, instruction, edification, education, tuition, tutorage, tutelage, direction, guidance, opsimathy, qualification, preparation, training, schooling, discipline, excitation, drill, practice, book exercise, persuasion, proselytism, propagandism, propaganda, indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation, advise, explanation, lesson, lecture, sermon, apologue, parable, discourse, prolection, preachment, chalk talk, Chautauqua, exercise, task, curriculum, course, course of study, grammar, three R's, initiation, A, B, C, elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education, propaedeutics, moral tuition, gymnastics, calisthenics, physical drill, physical education, sloyd, phonics, rote, rote memorization, brute memory, cooperative learning, Montessori method, ungraded classes, test, examination, exam, final exam, mid-term exam grade, score, marks, A, B, C, D, E, F, gentleman's C, pass, fail, incomplete, homework, take-home lesson, exercise for the student, theme, project, teaching, taught, educational, scholastic, academic, doctrinal, disciplinal, instructive, instructional, didactic, propaedeutic, propaedeutical, the schoolmaster abroad, a bovi majori disscit arare minor, adeo in teneris consuecere multum est, docendo discimus, quaenocent docent, qui docet discit, sermons in stones and good in everything, teaching, instruction, edification, education, tuition, tutorage, tutelage, direction, guidance, opsimathy, qualification, preparation, training, schooling, discipline, excitation, drill, practice, book exercise, persuasion, proselytism, propagandism, propaganda, indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation, advise, explanation, lesson, lecture, sermon, apologue, parable, discourse, prolection, preachment, chalk talk, Chautauqua, exercise, task, curriculum, course, course of study, grammar, three R's, initiation, A, B, C, elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education, propaedeutics, moral tuition, gymnastics, calisthenics, physical drill, physical education, sloyd, phonics, rote, rote memorization, brute memory, cooperative learning, Montessori method, ungraded classes, test, examination, exam, final exam, mid-term exam grade, score, marks, A, B, C, D, E, F, gentleman's C, pass, fail, incomplete, homework, take-home lesson, exercise for the student, theme, project, teaching, taught, educational, scholastic, academic, doctrinal, disciplinal, instructive, instructional, didactic, propaedeutic, propaedeutical, the schoolmaster abroad, a bovi majori disscit arare minor, adeo in teneris consuecere multum est, docendo discimus, quaenocent docent, qui docet discit, sermons in stones and good in everything.
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