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teach
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)
- (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.
- c1450, Mandeville's Travels?
- (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
- Synonyms: educate, instruct
- (intransitive) To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
- Antonym: learn
- (ditransitive) To cause to learn or understand.
- (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)
- (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)
- 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)
- 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
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express
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?k?sp??s/ IPA(key): /?k.?sp??s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Etymology 1
From French exprès, from Latin expressus, past participle of exprimere (see Etymology 2, below).
Adjective
express (comparative more express, superlative most express)
- (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
- (comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
- I gave him express instructions not to begin until I arrived, but he ignored me.
- This book cannot be copied without the express permission of the publisher.
- Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
- In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance.
- (postpositive, retail) Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type.
- The Pizza Hut inside Target isn't a full one: it's a Pizza Hut Express.
- Some Wal-Mart stores will include a McDonald's Express.
- The mall's selection of cell phone carriers includes a full AT&T store and a T-Mobile express.
Synonyms
- (of a train): fast, crack
- (directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied): explicit, plain; see also Thesaurus:explicit
Antonyms
- (directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied): implied
Translations
Noun
express (plural expresses)
- A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
- A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
- An express rifle.
- 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines
- "Give me my express," I said, laying down the Winchester, and he handed it to me cocked.
- 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines
- (obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
- a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, Clerus Domini, or, A discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness, and separation of the office ministerial together with the nature and manner of its power and operation
- the only remanent express of Christ's sacrifice on earth
- a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, Clerus Domini, or, A discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness, and separation of the office ministerial together with the nature and manner of its power and operation
- A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
- An express office.
- 1873, Edward Everett Hale, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
- She charged him […] to ask at the express if anything came up from town.
- 1873, Edward Everett Hale, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
- That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
Synonyms
- (of a train): fast train
Antonyms
- (of a train): local, stopper
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old French espresser, expresser, from frequentative form of Latin exprimere.
Verb
express (third-person singular simple present expresses, present participle expressing, simple past and past participle expressed)
- (transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
- (transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 13
- The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl [...].
- 2018, Kelsey Munroe, The Guardian, 15 March:
- They don’t have teats, so the mothers express their milk onto their bellies for their young to feed.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 13
- (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
- (biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
- 2015, Ferris Jabr, How Humans Ended Up With Freakishly Huge Brains, Wired:
- When a cell “expresses” a gene, it translates the DNA first into a signature messenger RNA (mRNA) sequence and subsequently into a chain of amino acids that forms a protein.
- 2015, Ferris Jabr, How Humans Ended Up With Freakishly Huge Brains, Wired:
Synonyms
- outspeak, utter
Derived terms
- expressed
- expressedly
- express oneself
Related terms
- expressible
- expressibly
- expression
- expressive
- expressively
- expressly
Translations
Noun
express (plural expresses)
- (obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.20:
- Whereby they discoursed in silence, and were intuitively understood from the theory of their expresses.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.20:
- (obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
- This Gentleman [...] caused a man to go down no less than a hundred fathom, with express to take notice whether it were hard or soft in the place where it groweth.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English express, from Old French expres, from Latin expressus
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k.sp??s/
- Homophone: expresse
Adjective
express (invariable)
- express, rapide
Derived terms
Noun
express m (plural express)
- express train or service
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