different between teach vs nurture

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

English

Alternative forms

• nouriture (obsolete)
• nutriture (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English norture, noriture, from Old French norriture, norreture, from Late Latin nutritura (“nourishment”), from Latin nutrire (“to nourish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n???.t???/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t??(?)

Noun

nurture (countable and uncountable, plural nurtures)

1. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care

   Synonyms: upbringing, raising, education, training

2. That which nourishes; food; diet.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Veue of the Present State of Ireland

     Other great houses there be of the English in Ireland, which, through licentious conversing with the Irish, or marrying, or fostering with them or lack of meet nurture, or other such unhappy occasions, have degenerated from their ancient dignities and are now grown as Irish as O'Hanlon's breech, as the proverb there is.

3. The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual (as opposed to "nature").
   • 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes

     A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise.

Translations

Verb

nurture (third-person singular simple present nurtures, present participle nurturing, simple past and past participle nurtured)

1. To nourish or nurse.
2. (figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.
   • 2009, UNESCO, The United Nations World Water Development Report – N° 3 - 2009 – Freshwater and International Law (the Interplay between Universal, Regional and Basin Perspectives), page 10, ?ISBN

     The relationships between universal norms and specific norms nurture the development of international law.

Synonyms

• (figuratively, to encourage): See Thesaurus:nurture

Related terms

• nourish
• nourishment
• nurse
• nursery
• nurturance
• nutrient
• nutriment
• nutrition
• nutritional
• nutritious
• nutritive

Translations

Further reading

• nurture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• nurture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• U-turner, untruer

Middle English

Noun

nurture

1. Alternative form of norture