Dictionary Definition
instruction
Noun
1 a message describing how something is to be
done; "he gave directions faster than she could follow them" [syn:
direction]
2 the activities of educating or instructing or
teaching; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received
no formal education"; "our instruction was carefully programmed";
"good teaching is seldom rewarded" [syn: education, teaching, pedagogy, educational
activity]
3 the profession of a teacher; "he prepared for
teaching while still in college"; "pedagogy is recognized as an
important profession" [syn: teaching, pedagogy]
4 (computer science) a line of code written as
part of a computer program [syn: command, statement, program
line]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ʌkʃən
Noun
- The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.
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- Students receive instruction in the arts and sciences.
- Instruction will be provided on how to handle difficult customers.
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- An instance of the
information or
knowledge so
furnished.
- Shakespeare
- If my instructions may be your guide.
- Shakespeare
- An order or command.
Translations
The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing
with knowledge; information
- Danish: vejledning
- Swedish: instruktion
- Finnish: opastus, opettaminen, ohjaaminen
That which instructs, or with which one is
instructed
- Danish: vejlederen
- Swedish: instruktör
- Finnish: opastus, ohje
- Spanish: instrucción
Synonyms
Extensive Definition
An instruction is a form of communicated information that is both
command and explanation'' for how an
action,
behavior, method, or
task is to be begun,
completed, conducted, or executed.
Instruction may also refer to:
- Teaching, a form of instruction.
- Sebayt, a work of the ancient Egyptian didactic literature aiming to teach ethical behaviour.
- Instruction (computer science), a single operation of a processor within a computer architecture
- In the context of French law (or inquisitorial systems based on France's), the instruction is the pre-trial phase of a criminal investigation that is led by a judge. More generally, it refers to phases of judicial or administrative proceedings where a request is investigated, and information pertaining to it is collected, before a final decision is made.
- Instruction (band), a rock band (2002-2005), from New York City
- Instructions (album), the second solo album by Jermaine Dupri, released in 2001.
instruction in Bulgarian: Инструкция
instruction in Czech: Instrukce
(rozcestník)
instruction in French: Instruction
instruction in Italian: Istruzione
instruction in Dutch: Instructie
instruction in Slovak: Inštrukcia
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accomplishments,
account, acquaintance, acquisition
of knowledge, acquisitions, admonition, advice, advising, advocacy, announcement, assignment, attainments, blue book,
brief, briefing, bulletin, catechization, caution, caveat, chalk talk, charge, classes, coaching, command, commission, communication, communique, consultation, council, counsel, data, datum, dictate, didactics, direction, directive, directory, discourse, dispatch, disquisition, drill, drilling, edification, education, enlightenment, evidence, exercise, exhortation, exposition, expostulation, facts, factual information,
familiarization,
gen, general information,
general orders, guidance, guidebook, guideline, handout, harangue, hard information,
homework, homily, hortation, idea, illumination, incidental
information, indoctrination, info, information, injunction, instructions, intelligence, knowledge, learning, lecture, lecture-demonstration,
lesson, lessons, liberal education,
light, mention, message, monition, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, notice, notification, object
lesson, opinion,
order, parley, pedagogics, pedagogy, preachment, precept, preparation, prescript, prescription, presentation, private
teaching, programmed instruction, promotional material, proof, proposal, publication, publicity, recital, recitation, recommendation, reeducation, regulation, release, remonstrance, report, rule, schooling, self-instruction,
self-teaching, sermon,
set task, sidelight,
skull session, sophistication,
spoon-feeding, statement, store of knowledge,
suggestion, talk, task, teaching, the dope, the goods,
the know, the scoop, thought, training, transmission, tuition, tutelage, tutorage, tutorial, tutoring, tutorship, warning, white book, white
paper, word