different between instruct vs punish
instruct
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)
- (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 […]
- (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)
- (obsolete) Instruction.
Adjective
instruct (not comparable)
- (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.
- c. 1615, George Chapman (translator), Homer’s Odysses, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 4, p. 62,[9]
- (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?
- 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained, London: John Starkey, Book 1, lines 438-441, p. 24,[10]
Anagrams
- unstrict
instruct From the web:
- what instructions are found in dna
- what instructional strategies are most effective
- what instructional coaching is and is not
- what instructional methods will be used
punish
English
Alternative forms
- punishe (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English punischen, from Anglo-Norman, Old French puniss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of punir, from Latin puni? (“to inflict punishment upon”), from poena (“punishment, penalty”); see pain.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?n??/
- Hyphenation: pun?ish
Verb
punish (third-person singular simple present punishes, present participle punishing, simple past and past participle punished)
- (transitive) To cause to suffer for crime or misconduct, to administer disciplinary action.
- 1818, William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, page 255
- It was not from the want of proper laws that dangerous principles had been disseminated, and had assumed a threatening aspect, but because those laws had not been employed by the executive power to remedy the evil, and to punish the offenders.
- 2007, Matthew Weait, Intimacy and Responsibility: The Criminalisation of HIV Transmission, Routledge (?ISBN), page 80
- The law needs to punish this behaviour as a deterrent to others.
- 2017, Joyce Carol Oates, Double Delight, Open Road Media (?ISBN)
- His mother had punished him when he'd deserved it. She'd loved him, he was “all she had,” but she'd punished him, too.
- Synonym: castigate
- 1818, William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, page 255
- (transitive, figuratively) To treat harshly and unfairly.
- 1994, Valerie Polakow, Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America, University of Chicago Press (?ISBN), page 68
- But each effort that Anna makes —and she has attempted many— meets with obstacles from a welfare bureaucracy that punishes single mothers for initiative and partial economic self-sufficiency.
- 2008, Seth Benardete, The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (?ISBN), page 5
- Homer, moreover, gives the impression that the Sun punished Odysseus's men; but we are later told that the Sun cannot punish individual men […]
- 2009, Gordon Wright, Learning to Ride, Hunt, and Show, Skyhorse Publishing Inc. (?ISBN), page 44
- The rider who comes back on his horse in mid-air over a fence is punishing his horse severely.
- Synonym: mistreat
- 1994, Valerie Polakow, Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America, University of Chicago Press (?ISBN), page 68
- (transitive, colloquial) To handle or beat severely; to maul.
- (transitive, colloquial) To consume a large quantity of.
- 1970, Doc Greene, The Memory Collector (page 49)
- A few moments later, we were all sitting around the veranda of the hunters' dining hall, punishing the gin, as usual.
- 1970, Doc Greene, The Memory Collector (page 49)
Derived terms
- punishable
- punisher (noun)
- punishing
- punishment (noun)
- telish, telishment
Related terms
- pain
Translations
Further reading
- punish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- punish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- push in, push-in, pushin', unship
punish From the web:
- what punishment does romeo receive
- what punishments of god are not gifts
- what punishment is brian mitchell serving
- what punishments did slaves get
- what punishment did the astros get
- what punishment did adam receive
- what punishments are considered cruel and unusual
- what punishment was given to the serpent
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- instruct vs punish
- whisper vs assure
- rest vs last
- grubby vs squalid
- pious vs sincere
- association vs gathering
- foreign vs queer
- heaviness vs burden
- flag vs wither
- possession vs avocation
- dead vs tasteless
- remarkable vs astounding
- weakened vs strengthless
- manufacture vs formation
- improve vs chasten
- translate vs solve
- count vs imply
- abasement vs dejection
- agreeable vs edifying
- intricate vs mean