different between instruct vs beken

English

Etymology

From Latin ?nstr?ctus, perfect passive participle of ?nstru? (“I instruct; I arrange, furnish, or provide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?st??kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

instruct (third-person singular simple present instructs, present participle instructing, simple past and past participle instructed)

1. (transitive) To teach by giving instructions.

   Synonyms: educate, guide

   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act I, Scene 3,^[1]

     Supply me with the habit and instruct me

     How I may formally in person bear me

     Like a true friar.

   • 1682, Aphra Behn, The False Count, London: Jacob Tonson, Act III, Scene 2, p. 33,^[2]

     What a dishonour’s this, to me, to have so Dull a Father, that needs to be instructed in his Duty.

   • 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 156, 14 September, 1751, in Volume 5, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 177,^[3]

     […] the design of tragedy is to instruct by moving the passions,

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter 10,^[4]

     […] I should deem you a man sore sick, it may be, yet not so sick but that an instructed and watchful physician might well hope to cure you.

   • 1974, Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, New York: William Morrow, Part 4, Chapter 29, p. 353,^[5]

     At the Laundromat I instruct Chris on how to operate the drier, start the washing machines […]

2. (transitive) To tell (someone) what they must or should do.

   Synonyms: command, direct, order

   Usage note: "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier than "advise"

   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act III, Scene 1,^[6]

     What, shall a child instruct you what to do?

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 39,^[7]

     All the servants were instructed to address her as “Mum,” or “Madam” […]

   • 1989, John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: Ballantine, 1997, Chapter 5, p. 195,^[8]

     Observing that the Christ Child’s nose was running, she deftly wiped it; then she held the handkerchief in place, while instructing him to “blow.”

Related terms

Translations

Noun

instruct (plural instructs)

1. (obsolete) Instruction.

Adjective

instruct (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Arranged; furnished; provided.
   • c. 1615, George Chapman (translator), Homer’s Odysses, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 4, p. 62,^[9]

     For he had neither ship, instruct with oares,

     Nor men to fetch him from those stranger shores.

2. (obsolete) Instructed; taught; enlightened.
   • 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained, London: John Starkey, Book 1, lines 438-441, p. 24,^[10]

     Who ever by consulting at thy shrine

     Return’d the wiser, or the more instruct

     To flye or follow what concern’d him most,

     And run not sooner to his fatal snare?

Anagrams

• unstrict

English

Etymology

From Middle English bekennen, bikennen, equivalent to be- +? ken (“to perceive”). Cognate with Dutch bekennen (“to acknowledge, confess”), German bekennen (“to admit, confess”), Swedish bekänna (“to profess, confess”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??k?n/, /b??k?n/

Verb

beken (third-person singular simple present bekens, present participle bekenning, simple past and past participle bekenned or bekent)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make known; reveal.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To commit or commend to the care of.
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:

     Now I bikenne þe criste quod she · and his clene moder.

4. (transitive, chiefly Scotland) To commit.
5. (transitive, chiefly Scotland) To admit as possessor.
6. (transitive, chiefly Scotland) To acquaint; instruct.

Anagrams

• Benke, nebek

Dutch

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?be?k?(n)/
• Rhymes: -e?k?n

Noun

beken

1. Plural form of beek

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??k?n/

Verb

beken

1. first-person singular present indicative of bekennen
2. imperative of bekennen

Hungarian

Etymology

be- (“onto”) +? ken (“smear”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?k?n]
• Hyphenation: be?ken
• Rhymes: -?n

Verb

beken

1. (transitive) to anoint, spread, smear (to distribute in an even layer), to apply/put on (a soft substance, cream, oil, paint, etc.)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• bekenés

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch bekend (“(well-)known”), from Middle Dutch bekent, part participle of bekennen (“to know”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b??k?n]
• Hyphenation: bê?kèn

Noun

bêkèn

1. (colloquial) (well-)known

Derived terms

Further reading

• “beken” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bekyn, bekene, biken, beeken, bekne, beekne

Etymology

From Old English b?acn, from Proto-Germanic *baukn?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?be?k?n/, /?b??k?n/

Noun

beken (plural bekenes)

1. A fire that signals an impending attack or danger.
2. (rare) The structure a beacon is placed on.
3. (rare) A lighthouse.
4. (rare) A flag (piece of cloth with distinctive patterning)

Related terms

• bekenen

Descendants

• English: beacon
• Scots: bekin, beikin

References

• “b??ken, b?ken, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-25.