different between instruction vs ukase

English

Etymology

From Middle English instruccioun, from Old French instruccion, from Latin instructio; equivalent to instruct +? -ion.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

instruction (countable and uncountable, plural instructions)

1. (uncountable) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.
2. (countable) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
3. (countable) An order or command.
4. (computing) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
5. A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for the users of a product or service.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:instruction

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin ?nstr?cti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s.t?yk.sj??/

Noun

instruction f (plural instructions)

1. instruction (clarification of this definition is needed)

Related terms

• instruire

Further reading

• “instruction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• ukaz/Ukaz
• Ukase

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ????? (ukáz, “edict, decree”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju??ke?z/

Noun

ukase (plural ukases)

1. An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or (later) emperor.
   • c. 1844, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy

     Many estates peopled with crown peasants have been, according to an ukase of Peter the Great, ceded to particular individuals on condition of establishing manufactories […]

   • 1805, The Times, 6 May 1805, page 3, col. C:

     An Ukase, it appears, has been issued by the Emperor Alexander, to facilitate the introduction of calimancoes and other Norwich goods into his Empire.

   • 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, p. 704:

     The planters, he explained in a letter to Lincoln, would accept emancipation by ukase in preference to being compelled to enact it themselves in a new constitution.

2. (figuratively) Any absolutist order or arrogant proclamation
   • 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:

     I knew a stunned plunge of disappointment and a bitter anger. What right had he to issue such an arbitrary ukase?

   • 2008, Stephen Burt, "Kick Over the Scenery", London Review of Books, July 2008:

     It is a short step from discovering that the world we know is a fake or a cheat to discovering that human beings are themselves factitious: that we are robots, ‘simulacra’ (the title of one of Dick’s novels), ‘just reflex machines’, ‘repeating doomed patterns, a single pattern, over and over’ in accordance with biological or economic ukases.

Translations

See also

• decree
• edict
• ukase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ukaz in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Akesu

French

Alternative forms

• oukase

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ????? (ukáz, “edict, decree”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.kaz/, /u.kaz/

Noun

ukase m (plural ukases)

1. (historical) ukase (a decree from a Russian ruler, or any absolute or arrogant order)
2. edict, dictate

Descendants

• ? Dutch: oekaze

See also

• décret m
• édit m
• loi
• ordonnance

Further reading

• “ukase” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Alternative forms

• ucase

Noun

ukase m (invariable)

1. ukase

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ucase

Noun

ukase m (plural ukases)

1. ukase (proclamation by a Russian ruler)