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To teach is to share knowledge of a subject with a student or students.
(verb)An example of to teach is to explain how to properly mail a letter.
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See teach in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb taught, teaching
- to show or help (a person) to learn (how) to do something: to teach a child (how) to swim
- to give lessons to (a student, pupil, or class); guide the studies of; instruct
- to give lessons in (a subject) to someone; help someone to develop (a skill or trait): teaches French, taught him self-discipline
- to provide (a person) with knowledge, insight, etc.: the accident that taught her to be careful
- to attempt to cause someone to understand or accept (a precept or philosophy), esp. by one's own example or preaching: her life itself teaches nonviolence
- to give instruction at or in (a place): to teach school
Origin: ME techen < OE tæcan < base of tacn, a sign, symbol (see token); basic sense “to show, demonstrate,” as in Ger zeigen
intransitive verb
to give lessons or instruction; be a teacher, esp. in a school or college
Related Forms:
- teachability noun or teachableness
- teachable adjective
- teachably adverb
See teach in American Heritage Dictionary 4
verb taught taught (tôt), teach·ing, teach·es verb, transitive
- To impart knowledge or skill to: teaches children.
- To provide knowledge of; instruct in: teaches French.
- To condition to a certain action or frame of mind: teaching youngsters to be self-reliant.
- To cause to learn by example or experience: an accident that taught me a valuable lesson.
- To advocate or preach: teaches racial and religious tolerance.
- To carry on instruction on a regular basis in: taught high school for many years.
To give instruction, especially as an occupation.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English techen
Origin: , from Old English tǣcan; see deik- in Indo-European roots
.(tēch) also Thatch (thăch), Edward Known as Black·beard (blăkˈbîrdˌ) Died 1718.
English pirate. Based on the North Carolina coast after 1713, he conducted acts of piracy off the coast of the American colonies and in the Caribbean. He was killed by British naval forces.
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