Library / English Dictionary

TEACHING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill

Example:

good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded

Synonyms:

didactics; education; educational activity; instruction; pedagogy; teaching

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

activity (any specific behavior)

Meronyms (parts of "teaching"):

lesson (a task assigned for individual study)

homework; prep; preparation (preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home))

classwork (the part of a student's work that is done in the classroom)

classroom project (a school task requiring considerable effort)

Domain member category:

tuition; tuition fee (a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education))

Department of Education; Education; Education Department (the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979)

academic program ((education) a program of education in liberal arts and sciences (usually in preparation for higher education))

education (the gradual process of acquiring knowledge)

point system (a system of evaluation based on awarding points according to rules)

education (the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university))

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

coeducation (education of men and women in the same institutions)

continuing education (a program of instruction designed primarily for adult students who participate part-time)

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

elementary education (education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school)

extension; extension service; university extension (an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students)

extracurricular activity (educational activities not falling within the scope of the regular curriculum)

higher education (education provided by a college or university)

secondary education (education beyond the elementary grades; provided by a high school or college preparatory school)

team teaching (a method of coordinated classroom teaching involving a team of teachers working together with a single group of students)

work-study program (an educational plan in which students alternate between paid employment and formal study)

Derivation:

teach (impart skills or knowledge to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The profession of a teacher

Example:

pedagogy is recognized as an important profession

Synonyms:

instruction; pedagogy; teaching

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

education (the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university))

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

lecture; lecturing (teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class))

spoonfeeding (teaching in an overly simplified way that discourages independent thought)

hypnopedia; sleep-learning (teaching during sleep (as by using recordings to teach a foreign language to someone who is asleep))

lesson (a unit of instruction)

tuition; tutelage; tutorship (teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately))

indoctrination (teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically)

schooling (the act of teaching at school)

teaching reading (teaching beginners to read)

language teaching (teaching people to speak and understand a foreign language)

catechetical instruction (teaching religious principles by questions and answers)

catechesis (oral religious instruction (as before baptism or confirmation))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A doctrine that is taught

Example:

he believed all the Christian precepts

Synonyms:

commandment; precept; teaching

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

doctrine; ism; philosophical system; philosophy; school of thought (a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school)

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

Golden Rule (a command based on Jesus' words in the Sermon on the Mount)

mitsvah; mitzvah ((Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb teach

Credits

 Context examples: 

Apt scholar that he was, they were equally apt teachers, never allowing him to linger long in error, and enforcing their teaching with their sharp teeth.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The teaching, big or little, could not have landed Mina or me anywhere worse than we are to-day.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The activities of educating or instructing or teaching; activities that impart knowledge or skill.

(Education, NCI Thesaurus)

The branch of psychology concerned with psychological aspects of teaching and the formal learning process in school.

(Educational Psychology, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

I would retire from teaching, and so find time for my final classification of the chalk fossils.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The activities of educating or instructing or teaching that are directed towards a patient or the general public.

(Patient or Public Education, NCI Thesaurus)

But poetry—do you know how Vaughn Marlow makes his living? —teaching in a boys' cramming-joint down in Pennsylvania, and of all private little hells such a billet is the limit.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Gary's successful touchdown on the Teflon — and on other perches of varying materials — is teaching scientists how they might create machines that land like a bird.

(Researchers study birds to improve how robots land, National Science Foundation)

A nurse practitioner that meets the health care needs of the family by providing health assessments, direct care, and guidance, teaching, or counseling as appropriate, particularly around family self-care.

(Family Practice Nurse Practitioner, NCI Thesaurus)

In teaching her I learned quite a deal myself, though I was applying the knowledge already acquired by sailing the Ghost and by watching the boat-steerers sail the small boats.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)