different between warn vs instruct
warn
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w??n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /w??n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
- Homophone: worn (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Etymology
From Middle English warnen, warnien (“to warn; admonish”), from Old English warnian (“to take heed; warn”), from Proto-Germanic *warn?n? (“to warn; take heed”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to be aware; give heed”). Cognate with Dutch waarnen (obsolete), German Low German warnen, German warnen, Swedish varna, Icelandic varna.
Verb
warn (third-person singular simple present warns, present participle warning, simple past and past participle warned)
- (transitive) To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:
- (transitive) To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc. [from 11th c.]
- We waved a flag to warn the oncoming traffic about the accident.
- I phoned to warn him of the road closure.
- (transitive) To notify or inform (someone, about something). [from at least the 13th c.]
- I warned him he'd be getting a huge box of birthday presents from me.
- (transitive) To summon (someone) to or inform of a formal meeting or duty.
- The sheriff warned her to appear in court.
- 1741–2 March 4, Books of Keelman's Hospital, Newcastle, quoted in Northumberland Words (1894):
- Committee being warned these following were absent or short [...]
- 1874, Walter Gregor, An Echo of the Olden Time from the North of Scotland, page 142:
- The people had been invited to the funeral, or warnt, by a special messenger a few days before the funeral took place.
- 1889, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the [State of] Vermont, page 490:
- [...] the plaintiff fraudulently warned the meeting for November 15, giving only five days' notice [...]
- (transitive, intransitive, of a clock, possibly obsolete) To make a sound (e.g. clicking or whirring) indicating that it is about to strike or chime (an hour).
- 1885, Walter Towers, Poems, Songs, and Ballads, page 189:
- Hark! the clock is warning ten;
- 1885, Emma Marshall, In the East Country with Sir Thomas Browne, page 106:
- No, not a word more, Andrew; the clock has warned for nine, and I am off.
- 1902, Violet Jacob, The Sheep-Stealers, page 399:
- The clock warned, and the hands pointed to a few minutes before the hour. The preacher looked towards it. "And, as you sit here," he cried," the Old Year is dragging out its last moments and the New Year is coming up —"
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:warn.
- 1885, Walter Towers, Poems, Songs, and Ballads, page 189:
- (transitive) To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc. [from 11th c.]
- (transitive) To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour. [from 11th c.]
- He was warned against crossing the railway tracks at night.
- Don't let me catch you running in the corridor again, I warn you.
- (chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away.
- A sign warns trespassers off/away from the site.
- (intransitive) To give warning.
- 1526, William Tyndale, tr. Bible, Galatians II, 9-10:
- then Iames Cephas and Iohn [...] agreed with vs that we shuld preache amonge the Hethen and they amonge the Iewes: warnynge only that we shulde remember the poore.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, Penguin 1995, p. 177:
- She is his deepest innocence in spaces of bough and hay before wishes were given a different name to warn that they might not come true [...].
- 1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Picador 2000, p. 496:
- She warned that he was seriously thinking of withdrawing his offer to part the waters, ‘so that all you'll get at the Arabian Sea is a saltwater bath [...]’.
- 1991, Clive James, ‘Making Programmes the World Wants’, The Dreaming Swimmer, Jonathan Cape 1992:
- Every country has its resident experts who warn that imported television will destroy the national consciousness and replace it with Dallas, The Waltons, Star Trek and Twin Peaks.
- 1526, William Tyndale, tr. Bible, Galatians II, 9-10:
Usage notes
- The intransitive sense is considered colloquial by some, and is explicitly proscribed by, for example, the Daily Telegraph style guide (which prefers give warning).
Derived terms
- forewarn
- warner
- warning
Translations
Anagrams
- ANWR
Middle English
Verb
warn
- Alternative form of weren
- Alternative form of wernen
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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
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