Instruction

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=struc=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

Instruction, n. [L. instructio: cf. F. instruction.].

•  The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted  Shak.
•  a segment of coded data that is interpreted by a computer as a command to perform an operation or series of operations. The term instruction is applied to both the electronic form of the data as represented in and executed by the computer, and to any line of written computer code which is interpreted as one instruction by a compiler. A computer program is comprised of one or more instructions.

  "Instructions as contained in a program are formulated in a programming language, which may be an assembly language, in which one instruction corresponds to one command executed by the coputer, or in a higher-level programming language, in which one instruction may represent one of many instructions in assembly language. Higher-level programming languages include, for example, FORTRAN, ALGOL, ADA, C, "C++", COBOL, and JAVA; each of these languages have their own distinctive set of allowable instructions."  [PJC]

Syn. -- Education; teaching; indoctrination; information; advice; counsel. See Education.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Instruction, n.
1 (often in pl.) a direction; an order (gave him his instructions).
2 teaching; education (took a course of instruction).
3 Law (in pl.) directions to a solicitor or counsel.
4 Computing a direction in a computer program defining and effecting an operation.

Derivative

instructional adj.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. LL instructio -onis (as INSTRUCT)

THESAURUS

Instruction

accomplishments, account, acquaintance, acquisition of knowledge, acquisitions, admonition, advice, advising, advocacy, announcement, assignment, attainments, blue book, brief, briefing, bulletin, catechization, caution, caveat, chalk talk, charge, classes, coaching, command, commission, communication, communique, consultation, council, counsel, data, datum, dictate, didactics, direction, directive, directory, discourse, dispatch, disquisition, drill, drilling, edification, education, enlightenment, evidence, exercise, exhortation, exposition, expostulation, facts, factual information, familiarization, gen, general information, general orders, guidance, guidebook, guideline, handout, harangue, hard information, homework, homily, hortation, idea, illumination, incidental information, indoctrination, info, information, injunction, instructions, intelligence, knowledge, learning, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, lessons, liberal education, light, mention, message, monition, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, notice, notification, object lesson, opinion, order, parley, pedagogics, pedagogy, preachment, precept, preparation, prescript, prescription, presentation, private teaching, programmed instruction, promotional material, proof, proposal, publication, publicity, recital, recitation, recommendation, reeducation, regulation, release, remonstrance, report, rule, schooling, self-instruction, self-teaching, sermon, set task, sidelight, skull session, sophistication, spoon-feeding, statement, store of knowledge, suggestion, talk, task, teaching, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, thought, training, transmission, tuition, tutelage, tutorage, tutorial, tutoring, tutorship, warning, white book, white paper, word

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Instruction

Advice

N advice, counsel, adhortation, word to the wise, suggestion, submonition, recommendation, advocacy, advisement, exhortation, expostulation, admonition, guidance, instruction, charge, injunction, obtestation, Governor's message, President's message, King's message, Queen's speech, message, speech from the throne, adviser, prompter, counsel, counselor, monitor, mentor, Nestor, magnus Apollo, senator, teacher, guide, manual, chart, physician, doctor, leech, archiater, arbiter, reference, referment, consultation, conference, pourparler, recommendatory, hortative, dehortatory, admonitory, Int, go to!, give every man thine ear but few thy voice, I pray thee cease thy counsel, my guide, philosopher, and friend, 'twas good advice and meant, my son be good, verbum sat sapienti, a word to the wise is sufficient, vive memor leti, we, ask advice but we mean approbation.

Precept

N precept, direction, instruction, charge, prescript, prescription, recipe, receipt, golden rule, maxim, rule, canon, law, code, corpus juris, lex scripta, act, statute, rubric, stage direction, regulation, form, formula, formulary, technicality, canon law, norm, order.

Information

N information, enlightenment, acquaintance, knowledge, publicity, data, communication, intimation, notice, notification, enunciation, annunciation, announcement, communiqu_e, representation, round robin, presentment, case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition, news, return, account, statement, mention, acquainting, instruction, outpouring, intercommunication, communicativeness, informant, authority, teller, intelligencer, reporter, exponent, mouthpiece, informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective, sleuth, mouchard, spy, newsmonger, messenger, amicus curiae, valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide, guidebook, handbook, vade mecum, manual, map, plan, chart, gazetteer, itinerary, hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition, cue, byplay, gesture, gentle hint, broad hint, verbum sapienti, a word to the wise, insinuation, information theory, bit, byte, word, doubleword, quad word, paragraph, segment, magnetic media, paper medium, optical media, random access memory, RAM, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, informed, communique, reported, published, expressive, explicit plain spoken, (artless), nuncupative, nuncupatory, declaratory, expository, enunciative, communicative, communicatory, from information received, a little bird told me, I heard it through the grapevine.

Teaching

N teaching, instruction, edification, education, tuition, tutorage, tutelage, direction, guidance, opsimathy, qualification, preparation, training, schooling, discipline, excitation, drill, practice, book exercise, persuasion, proselytism, propagandism, propaganda, indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation, advise, explanation, lesson, lecture, sermon, apologue, parable, discourse, prolection, preachment, chalk talk, Chautauqua, exercise, task, curriculum, course, course of study, grammar, three R's, initiation, A, B, C, elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education, propaedeutics, moral tuition, gymnastics, calisthenics, physical drill, physical education, sloyd, phonics, rote, rote memorization, brute memory, cooperative learning, Montessori method, ungraded classes, test, examination, exam, final exam, mid-term exam grade, score, marks, A, B, C, D, E, F, gentleman's C, pass, fail, incomplete, homework, take-home lesson, exercise for the student, theme, project, teaching, taught, educational, scholastic, academic, doctrinal, disciplinal, instructive, instructional, didactic, propaedeutic, propaedeutical, the schoolmaster abroad, a bovi majori disscit arare minor, adeo in teneris consuecere multum est, docendo discimus, quaenocent docent, qui docet discit, sermons in stones and good in everything.