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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INSTRUC'TION, n. [L. instructio.]
1. The act of teaching or informing the understanding in that of which it was before ignorant; information.
2. Precepts conveying knowledge.
Receive my instruction and not silver. Proverbs 8.
3. Direction; order; command; mandate. The minister received instructions from his sovereign to demand a categorical answer.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a message describing how something is to be done; "he gave directions faster than she could follow them" [syn: direction, instruction]
2: 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" [syn: education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, 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, instruction, pedagogy]
4: (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program [syn: instruction, command, statement, program line]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. a. precept <prevailing cultural instructions> b. a direction calling for compliance ; order — usually used in plural <had instructions not to admit strangers> c. plural an outline or manual of technical procedure ; directions d. a code that tells a computer to perform a particular operation 2. the action, practice, or profession of teaching • instructional adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 (often in pl.) a direction; an order (gave him his instructions). 2 teaching; education (took a course of instruction). 3 Law (in pl.) directions to a solicitor or counsel. 4 Computing a direction in a computer program defining and effecting an operation. Derivatives: instructional adj. Etymology: ME f. OF f. LL instructio -onis (as INSTRUCT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Instruction In*struc"tion, n. [L. instructio: cf. F. instruction.] 1. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information. 2. That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted; as: (a) Precept; information; teachings. (b) Direction; order; command. ``If my instructions may be your guide.'' --Shak. Syn: Education; teaching; indoctrination; information; advice; counsel. See Education.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(instructions) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. An instruction is something that someone tells you to do. Two lawyers were told not to leave the building but no reason for this instruction was given. N-COUNT 2. If someone gives you instruction in a subject or skill, they teach it to you. (FORMAL) Each candidate is given instruction in safety... N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp 3. Instructions are clear and detailed information on how to do something. Always read the instructions before you start taking the medicine. N-PLURAL

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

in-struk'-shun.

See CATECHIST; EDUCATION; SCHOOL.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Teaching, information, education, indoctrination, training, schooling, discipline, tuition, nurture, breeding. 2. Advice, counsel, precept. 3. Direction, order, command, mandate.

Moby Thesaurus

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