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n. (communication) | 1. direction, instruction | a message describing how something is to be done.; "he gave directions faster than she could follow them" |
| ~ subject matter, content, message, substance | what a communication that is about something is about. |
| ~ rule | any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order.; "the rule of St. Dominic" |
| ~ prescript, rule | prescribed guide for conduct or action. |
| ~ rubric | directions for the conduct of Christian church services (often printed in red in a prayer book). |
| ~ misdirection | incorrect directions or instructions. |
| ~ name and address, destination, address | written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location. |
| ~ markup | detailed stylistic instructions for typesetting something that is to be printed; manual markup is usually written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics). |
| ~ prescription | directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions.; "I tried to follow her prescription for success" |
| ~ recipe, formula | directions for making something. |
| ~ rule | directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted.; "he knew the rules of chess" |
| ~ stage direction | an instruction written as part of the script of a play. |
| ~ style | editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display. |
| ~ system command | a computer user's instruction (not part of a program) that calls for action by the computer's executive program. |
n. (act) | 2. didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy, teaching | the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill.; "he received no formal education"; "our instruction was carefully programmed"; "good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded" |
| ~ activity | any specific behavior.; "they avoided all recreational activity" |
| ~ education | the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university). |
| ~ classroom project | a school task requiring considerable effort. |
| ~ classwork | the part of a student's work that is done in the classroom. |
| ~ homework, prep, preparation | preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home). |
| ~ lesson | a task assigned for individual study.; "he did the lesson for today" |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ course, course of instruction, course of study, class | education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings.; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes" |
| ~ elementary education | education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school. |
| ~ extension service, university extension, 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. |
| ~ point system | a system of evaluation based on awarding points according to rules. |
| ~ education | the gradual process of acquiring knowledge.; "education is a preparation for life"; "a girl's education was less important than a boy's" |
| ~ academic program | (education) a program of education in liberal arts and sciences (usually in preparation for higher education). |
| ~ department of education, education department, education | the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979. |
| ~ tuition, tuition fee | a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education).; "tuition and room and board were more than $25,000" |
n. (act) | 3. instruction, pedagogy, teaching | the profession of a teacher.; "he prepared for teaching while still in college"; "pedagogy is recognized as an important profession" |
| ~ education | the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university). |
| ~ catechesis | oral religious instruction (as before baptism or confirmation). |
| ~ catechetical instruction | teaching religious principles by questions and answers. |
| ~ language teaching | teaching people to speak and understand a foreign language. |
| ~ teaching reading | teaching beginners to read. |
| ~ schooling | the act of teaching at school. |
| ~ indoctrination | teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically. |
| ~ tutelage, tutorship, tuition | teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately). |
| ~ lesson | a unit of instruction.; "he took driving lessons" |
| ~ hypnopedia, sleep-learning | teaching during sleep (as by using recordings to teach a foreign language to someone who is asleep). |
| ~ spoonfeeding | teaching in an overly simplified way that discourages independent thought. |
| ~ lecturing, lecture | teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class). |
n. (communication) | 4. command, instruction, program line, statement | (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program. |
| ~ computer science, computing | the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures. |
| ~ computer code, code | (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions. |
| ~ computer program, computer programme, programme, program | (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute.; "the program required several hundred lines of code" |
| ~ call | an instruction that interrupts the program being executed.; "Pascal performs calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed" |
| ~ command line | commands that a user types in order to run an application. |
| ~ link | (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list. |
| ~ macro, macro instruction | a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language. |
| ~ system error | an instruction that is either not recognized by an operating system or is in violation of the procedural rules. |
| ~ toggle | any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time. |
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