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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
instruct
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a judge directs/instructs a jury (=tells it what to decide)
▪ The judge directed the jury to find her not guilty.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
authority
▪ The first role clearly requires their presence in court throughout the hearing to instruct the local authority solicitor as necessary.
▪ He asked Office minister David Mellor whether he still wished or instructed local authorities to enforce the law as it now stands.
bank
▪ Those proxy votes must be used in support of incumbent management unless the shareholder specifically instructs the bank otherwise.
▪ The government could then instruct all banks not to push companies into default and not to dispose of any collateral.
child
▪ It is said that prior to birth the angels instruct the child in full knowledge of life and the universe.
▪ Similarly, parents instruct their children not to smoke or drink, yet the parents may engage in those activities themselves.
▪ At their weekly visits, fieldworkers were instructed to refer ill children to the clinics, according to specified criteria.
council
▪ The Chief Officer was instructed by the Council to have discussions with representatives of the Oxford authority.
▪ But it is five months since Mr Hussein swallowed his neighbour and was instructed by the Security Council to disgorge it.
jury
▪ The trial judge instructed the jury to ignore the concept of a lien.
▪ On Friday morning, the judge instructed the jury.
▪ The judge instructed the jury about legal points.
member
▪ Injunctions were issued and some of the unions instructed their members to stop the forbidden activities.
▪ The Congress instructed its members and friends to withdraw from the legislatures, and sanctioned civil disobedience and nonpayment of taxes.
▪ At first sight, this would appear to be a Community instrument instructing Member States as to how to exercise their national competence.
officer
▪ The Fire Brigade was to be asked to instruct the officers in the use of the appliances.
▪ He instructed his officers to build strong relationships with churches, businesses, PTAs, and other community organizations.
▪ The Secretary instructed the Crown's officers at home and overseas.
▪ Admiral Ugaki promptly instructed subordinate staff officers to make a detailed study of the practicability of his plan.
▪ The buddy patrol will not interfere with any police matter, unless instructed by a commanding officer.
solicitor
▪ A solicitor may be instructed to draft the company's memorandum and articles of association, and a registration fee is payable.
staff
▪ The editor could then instruct staff to upload them for approval.
▪ Admiral Ugaki promptly instructed subordinate staff officers to make a detailed study of the practicability of his plan.
▪ He instructed his staff to refuse all interviews with the snoopy columnist and refer all questions to himself.
▪ At the same time I instructed the engineering staff to bring the temperature in their bedroom to sixty-five degrees.
subject
▪ She then instructed her subjects to duplicate these postures as precisely as possible.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It is a good idea to instruct a specialist company to inspect the property for damp.
▪ New recruits are instructed in marching and the handling of weapons.
▪ One of the secretaries had been instructed to reserve me a seat on the next plane to London.
▪ She took the tablets three times every day, as instructed by her doctor.
▪ The person who instructed you obviously didn't know much about map-reading!
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Instruct

Instruct \In*struct"\, a. [L. instructus, p. p. of instruere to furnish, provide, construct, instruct; pref. in- in, on + struere. See Structure.]

  1. Arranged; furnished; provided. [Obs.] ``He had neither ship instruct with oars, nor men.''
    --Chapman.

  2. Instructed; taught; enlightened. [Obs.]
    --Milton.

Instruct

Instruct \In*struct"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Instructed; p. pr. & vb. n. Instructing.]

  1. To put in order; to form; to prepare. [Obs.]

    They speak to the merits of a cause, after the proctor has prepared and instructed the same for a hearing.
    --Ayliffe.

  2. To form by communication of knowledge; to inform the mind of; to impart knowledge or information to; to enlighten; to teach; to discipline.

    Schoolmasters will I keep within my house, Fit to instruct her youth.
    --Shak.

  3. To furnish with directions; to advise; to direct; to command; as, the judge instructs the jury.

    She, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
    --Matt. xiv. 8.

    Take her in; instruct her what she has to do.
    --Shak.

    Syn: To teach; educate; inform; train; discipline; indoctrinate; direct; enjoin.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
instruct

early 15c., from Latin instructus, past participle of instruere "arrange, inform, teach," literally "to build, erect," from in- "on" (see in- (2)) + struere "to pile, build" (see structure (n.)). Related: Instructed; instructing.

Wiktionary
instruct

  1. 1 (label en obsolete) arranged; furnished; provided 2 (label en obsolete) instructed; taught; enlightened n. (label en obsolete) instruction v

  2. 1 (label en transitive) to teach by giving instructions 2 (label en transitive) to direct; to order (''usage note'': "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier than "advise")

WordNet
instruct

  1. v. impart skills or knowledge to; "I taught them French"; "He instructed me in building a boat" [syn: teach, learn]

  2. give instructions or directions for some task; "She instructed the students to work on their pronounciation"

  3. make aware of; "Have the students been apprised of the tuition hike?" [syn: apprise, apprize]

Usage examples of "instruct".

On February 26, 1782, the northern province of Friesland voted to instruct its delegates in the States-General to move formally to receive John Adams as minister from the United States.

I should be told as Aes Sedai, Merilille, Adeleas and Vandene will instruct me in this secret I endangered.

I have found that teachings as diverse as the Advaita and the Kabbalah instruct us to transcend our limiting ideas of who we think we are - separate egos and entities - if we are to have freedom.

Sir Bindon Blood was at Agra, when, on the evening of the 28th of July, he received the telegram from the Adjutant-General in India, appointing him to the command of the Malakand Field Force, and instructing him to proceed at once to assume it.

Donald instructed the household robot to waken Sheriff Alvar Kresh and suggest that he join Donald at the scene.

Sleepily, she explained that Rhani had decided she wanted to go to Sovka, three hundred and fifty kilometers north, and had instructed Amri to wake her pilot up.

People had started settling down, pairing off, and having kids, and that, while by no means a problem now, was the reason why the big boys at Headquarters Anchorwhich still meant van Haas and Cockburnhad instructed the landscape people to begin looking at area fill, the solidification and terraforming of the region between Anchors and Gates in each region.

She dropped the voice as Andi neared the door, instructing unromanticly.

The youths of a promising genius were instructed in the arts and sciences, and their price was ascertained by the degree of their skill and talents.

On First-day afternoons she attends a school, to which the children of the rich go, as well as the poor, to be instructed in the Scriptures.

Emperor Maximilian promised his aid to the pope, and in order to expedite matters, the latter changed the summons to Rome to a citation before Cajetan at Augsburg, at the same time instructing the legate to seize the heretic if he did not recant.

Campanian woman had a vision in which the god instructed her to induct her own two adolescent sons, and the Bacchic societies have been conjuncti ever since.

For their sake he has sent me to instruct you that all your battlecraft in the Eden universe must be withdrawn at once.

They had been instructed to wait with five other transports outside the solar system while the Qin battleships attacked the Domain mining station and eliminated the patrolships.

Earlier she had dispatched her maid on an invented errand and, cruelly, instructed the moon-faced male secretary-who was terrified of dogs-to exercise the Bedlington terriers.