different between declare vs teach

English

Etymology

From Old French declarer, from Latin d?cl?r? (“to make clear”), from d?- + cl?rus (“clear”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??kle?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??kl??/, /d??kl??/

Verb

declare (third-person singular simple present declares, present participle declaring, simple past and past participle declared)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make clear, explain, interpret.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XV:

     Then answered Peter and sayd to him: declare unto us thys parable.

   • 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours

     To declare this a little, we must assume that the surfaces of all such bodies […] are exactly smooth.

2. (intransitive) To make a declaration.

   Synonyms: disclose, make known; see also Thesaurus:announce

3. (card games) To show one's cards in order to score.
4. (transitive) To announce one’s support, choice, opinion, etc.

5. (intransitive, cricket) For the captain of the batting side to announce the innings complete even though all batsmen have not been dismissed.
6. (transitive) To announce something formally or officially.

   (cricket) declare (an innings) closed

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     One South Korean opposition party called on Moon to declare the current air pollution problem a national disaster.

7. (intransitive, politics) For a constituency in an election to officially announce the result

8. (transitive) To affirm or state something emphatically.
9. (transitive) To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.
   • 1984, Richard Woodbury and Anastasia Toufexis, "Law: The Trouble with Harry," Time, 2 April:

     The prosecution has introduced evidence, including canceled checks, to show that the judge failed to declare part of his income.

10. (transitive) To make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.
11. (transitive, programming) To explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• cedrela, cleared, creedal, relaced

Portuguese

Verb

declare

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of declarar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of declarar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of declarar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of declarar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [de?klare]

Verb

declare

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of declara
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of declara

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?kla?e/, [d?e?kla.?e]

Verb

declare

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of declarar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of declarar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of declarar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of declarar.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?t??/
• Rhymes: -i?t?

Etymology 1

From Middle English techen, from Old English t??an (“to show, declare, demonstrate; teach, instruct, train; assign, prescribe, direct; warn; persuade”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan, from Proto-Germanic *taikijan? (“to show”), from Proto-Indo-European *dey?- (“to show”). Cognate with Scots tech, teich (“to teach”), German zeigen (“to show, point out”), zeihen (“accuse, blame”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (gateihan, “to announce, declare, tell, show, display”), Latin d?c? (“speak, say, tell”), Ancient Greek ???????? (deíknumi, “show, point out, explain, teach”). More at token.

Verb

teach (third-person singular simple present teaches, present participle teaching, simple past and past participle taught)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
   • c1450, Mandeville's Travels?

     Blessed God of might (the) most.. teach us the right way unto that bliss that lasteth aye.

   • c1460, Cursor Mundi?

     Till thy sweet sun uprose, thou keptest all our lay, how we should keep our belief there taught'st thou us the way.
2. (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.

   Synonyms: educate, instruct

3. (intransitive) To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.

   Antonym: learn

4. (ditransitive) To cause to learn or understand.
5. (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

References

• The Middle English Dictionary
• NED

Etymology 2

Clipping of teacher

Noun

teach (plural teaches)

1. (informal, usually as a term of address) teacher

Anagrams

• 'tache, Tache, Taché, Tâche, chate, cheat, he-cat, tache, theca

Irish

Alternative forms

• tigh dative; has replaced the nominative in Munster Irish
• toigh (Ulster) dative; replaced the nominative in East Ulster.

Etymology

From Old Irish tech, from Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *tegos (“cover, roof”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?ax/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /t?æ?x/

Noun

teach m (genitive singular tí, nominative plural tithe)

1. house

Declension

• Alternative genitive singular: tighe, toighe
• Alternative dative singular: toigh
• Alternative plural: tithí (Ulster)

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "teach" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “tea?” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 724.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tech, teg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “teach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “teach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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Etymology

From Middle English techen, from Old English t??an, from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan.

Verb

teach (simple past teigkt or teight)

1. to hand or give

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN