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Teach   /titʃ/   Listen
Teach

verb
(past & past part. taught; pres. part. teaching)
1.
Impart skills or knowledge to.  Synonyms: instruct, learn.  "He instructed me in building a boat"
2.
Accustom gradually to some action or attitude.
noun
1.
An English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718).  Synonyms: Blackbeard, Edward Teach, Edward Thatch, Thatch.



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"Teach" Quotes from Famous Books



... for such a large woman, and at last they stood before Hiram Tinch, who owned the farm. Archie was made to describe his intentions, and was thoroughly examined by Mr. Tinch. He told the farmer that he knew nothing about farm work, but Mr. Tinch said he would soon teach him, and it was settled that Archie was to remain on the farm a week. Mrs. Lane went inside the house to see her sister, who looked sick with too much work, and the farmer told Archie that he might as well start in, as there was no object in waiting. So the boy donned a pair of ...
— The Adventures of a Boy Reporter • Harry Steele Morrison

... her eyes at that. Oftentimes have I observed that it needs a fool to teach some elementary wisdom to the wise ones of this world. I leapt from my saddle and stood in the road beside her, the bridle on ...
— The Shame of Motley • Raphael Sabatini

... holy angels round about them that fear him. We ought valiantly to fight, for we are under a Lord of Hosts, and a Prince of War; therefore with one hand we must build, and in the other hand take the sword-that is, we must both teach and resist. ...
— Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther • Martin Luther

... districts are, unavoidably, entirely without the exhortations and offices of a minister. At King George's Sound, an important post, no clergyman is seen from one year to another. Human beings are born, married, and buried, without a minister to baptize, to teach, to bless, or to give consolation in their extremity. There is no bishop to consecrate, to watch ...
— The Bushman - Life in a New Country • Edward Wilson Landor

... my sisters, we all must do if we would succeed. The reformer may be inconsistent, she may be stern or even impatient, but if the world feels that she is in earnest she can not fail. Let the truth which she desires to teach first take possession of herself. Every woman who to-day goes out into the world with a truth, who has not herself become possessed of that truth, had far better stay ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various


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