teach has definitions from the fields of law,criminal law,education
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[ verb ] (education) impart skills or knowledge to

Synonyms

instruct learn

Examples

"I taught them French" "He instructed me in building a boat"

Used in print

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

Rep._Henry_C._Grover , who teaches history in the Houston public_schools , would reduce from 24 to 12 semester_hours the so-called `` teaching_methods '' courses required to obtain a junior or senior_high_school teaching_certificate .

Grover also would require junior senior_high teachers to have at_least 24 semester_hours credit in the subject they are teaching .

`` A person with a master's_degree in physics , chemistry , math or English , yet who has not taken Education courses , is not permitted to teach in the public_schools '' , said Grover .

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

I 've tried to teach some of the other boys to kick and some of them can't seem to get the feel .

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)

Next to Leo_Durocher , Dark taught Mays the most when he was a grass green rookie rushed up_to the Polo_Grounds 10 years ago this month , to help the Giants win a dramatic pennant .

2
[ verb ] accustom gradually to some action or attitude

Examples

"The child is taught to obey her parents"

Used in print

(Sexology, 28:1...)

By using instruments of gradually increasing size , the vagina is gently , and with minimum pain at each stage , taught to yield to an object of the appropriate shape .

Related terms

habituate teacher

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[ noun ] (law,criminal law) an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)

Related terms

pirate

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