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Instructions   /ɪnstrˈəkʃənz/   Listen
Instructions

noun
1.
A manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it.  Synonyms: book of instructions, instruction manual, operating instructions.



Instruction

noun
1.
A message describing how something is to be done.  Synonym: direction.
2.
The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill.  Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, pedagogy, teaching.  "Our instruction was carefully programmed" , "Good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded"
3.
The profession of a teacher.  Synonyms: pedagogy, teaching.  "Pedagogy is recognized as an important profession"
4.
(computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program.  Synonyms: command, program line, statement.



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"Instructions" Quotes from Famous Books



... instructions, a column composed as under will be held in readiness to proceed, on field-service scale, from Aden into ...
— The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War - With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland • Cecil Francis Romer and Arthur Edward Mainwaring

... MATT. Your Instructions shall be observ'd. 'Tis now high time for us to repair to our several Duties; so 'till the Evening at our Quarters in ...
— The Beggar's Opera • John Gay

... more stretcher cases, and still more were coming in. The Medical Officer and his staff were working most heroically. I told him I had given instructions about cabling home should I be taken prisoner, and then I suddenly remembered that I had a scathing poem on the Kaiser in my pocket. I had written it in the quiet beauties of Beaupre, below Quebec, when the war first began. When I wrote it, I was told that if I were ever taken ...
— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott

... three recalcitrant Chiefs left Pekan for their homes in the interior, and, a day or two later, To' Gajah, by the Bendahara's order, followed them in pursuit. His instructions were to kill all three without further questionings, should he chance to overtake them before they reached their homes at Kuala Tembeling. If, however, they should win to their homes in safety, they were once more to be asked the fatal question, ...
— In Court and Kampong - Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula • Hugh Clifford

... commandant of Lunel, M. de Grandval, to set out the next day, very early in the morning, with the Charolais regiment and five companies of the Fimarcon and Saint-Sernin dragoons, and to repair to the heights of Boissieres, where instructions would await him. Sandricourt, governor of Nimes, was at the same time directed to withdraw as many men as possible from the garrison, both Swiss and dragoons, and send them by night towards Saint-Come and Clarensac; lastly, he himself set out, as he had said, ...
— Massacres Of The South (1551-1815) - Celebrated Crimes • Alexandre Dumas, Pere


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