teach

Definitions


[tiːtʃ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- impart knowledge to or instruct (someone) as to how to do something
(e.g: she taught him to read)

- cause (someone) to learn or understand something by example or experience
(e.g: travelling taught me that not everyone shared my beliefs)


Phrases:
- teach school
- teach to the test

Origin:
Old English tǣcan ‘show, present, point out’, of Germanic origin; related to token, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek deiknunai ‘show’, deigma ‘sample’


[tiːtʃ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a teacher
(e.g: she came to say ‘Hi!’ to her old teach)


Phrases:
- teach school
- teach to the test

Origin:
Old English tǣcan ‘show, present, point out’, of Germanic origin; related to token, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek deiknunai ‘show’, deigma ‘sample’




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