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LECTURING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)

Synonyms:

lecture; lecturing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("lecturing" is a kind of...):

instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the profession of a teacher)

Meronyms (parts of "lecturing"):

lecture demonstration (presentation of an example of what the lecturer is discoursing about)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lecturing"):

talk (the act of giving a talk to an audience)

Holonyms ("lecturing" is a part of...):

class; course; course of instruction; course of study (education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb lecture

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