instruct
pronunciation
How to pronounce instruct in British English:
UK [ɪnˈstrʌkt]
How to pronounce instruct in American English:
US [ɪnˈstrʌkt]
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- Verb:
- impart skills or knowledge to
- give instructions or directions for some task
- make aware of
Word Origin
- instruct
- instruct: [15] The -struct of instruct occurs also in construction, destruction, structure, etc. It comes from the past participle of Latin struere ‘build’. In the case of instruct, combination with the prefix in- produced instruere ‘build, prepare, equip, teach’, whose past participle stem instruct- formed the basis of the English verb.=> construct, destroy, instrument, structure
- instruct (v.)
- early 15c., from Latin instructus, past participle of instruere "arrange, inform, teach," literally "to build, erect," from in- "on" (see in- (2)) + struere "to pile, build" (see structure (n.)). Related: Instructed; instructing.
Example
- 1. The ecb would then instruct the banks to maintain credit lines and loan portfolios while monitoring risks in their accounts .
- 2. Jcl is a scripting language used on mainframe operating systems to instruct them how to run a batch job or start a subsystem .
- 3. In offices , people go home early and leave their jackets on their chairs and instruct their computers to send out work e-mails at 1 am .
- 4. The ecb would then instruct the banks to maintain their credit lines and loan portfolios while strictly monitoring the risks they take for their own account .
- 5. While teachers instruct , the classroom seems to move .