different between tuition vs teaching

English

Etymology

From Old French [Term?], from Latin tuiti? (“guard, protection, defense”), from tu?ri (“to watch, guard, see, observe”). Compare intuition, tutor.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: to?o?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /tu????n/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tyo?o?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /tju?????n/
• (India) enPR: tyo?o'sh?n, IPA^(key): /?tju???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

tuition (countable and uncountable, plural tuitions)

1. (Canada, US) A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college).

   Synonym: (UK) tuition fees

2. The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
   1. (India) Paid private classes taken outside of formal education; tutoring. (also used attributively)

3. (archaic) Care, guardianship.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1 Scene 1:

     BENEDICK. I have almost matter enough in me for such an embassage; and so I commit you—

     CLAUDIO. To the tuition of God: from my house, if I had it,—

     DON PEDRO. The sixth of July: your loving friend, Benedick.

     BENEDICK. Nay, mock not, mock not.

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Further reading

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

English

Alternative forms

• teachyng (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti?t???/
• Rhymes: -i?t???

Etymology 1

From Middle English teching, techinge, from Old English t??ing, t??ung (“instruction, direction, teaching”), equivalent to teach +? -ing.

Noun

teaching (countable and uncountable, plural teachings)

1. Something taught by a religious or philosophical authority.

   Many follow the teachings of Confucius.

2. The profession of educating people; the activity that a teacher does when s/he traches.

   Teaching has seen continual changes over the past decades.

   I have found a teaching job.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English techinge, techynge, techende, techand, from Old English t??ende, from Proto-Germanic *taikijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *taikijan? (“to show, point out”), equivalent to teach +? -ing.

Verb

teaching

1. present participle of teach

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• cheating