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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
instructor
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a driving instructor (=a person whose job is teaching people to drive)
▪ It's important to feel comfortable with your driving instructor.
a fitness instructor
▪ He was offered work as a fitness instructor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chief
▪ Further details can be obtained from the chief instructor John Davenport.
▪ Finally, Fellowship Afloat are looking for a new chief sailing instructor.
▪ This is not the time to be thinking about what the chief instructor is going to think or say.
driving
▪ The house now belongs to a buxom blonde from Lyon, wife of a driving instructor.
■ VERB
teach
▪ A boxing instructor may teach his pupil to strike him in a given way by acting as if hurt.
▪ Doug Baltz, cultural-awareness instructor, teaches the newcomers, beginning with a simple yet profound two-question quiz: 1.
▪ A glider pilot who's just won the right to work as an instructor, teaching others the beauty of unpowered flying.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a ski instructor
▪ I managed to find a very good driving instructor.
▪ Who is your chemistry instructor?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Instructor

Instructor \In*struct"or\, n. [L., a preparer: cf. F. instructeur.] [Written also instructer.] One who instructs; one who imparts knowledge to another; a teacher.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
instructor

mid-15c., from Old French instructeur and directly from Medieval Latin instructor "teacher" (in classical Latin, "preparer"), agent noun from instruere (see instruct).

Wiktionary
instructor

alt. One who instructs; a teacher n. One who instructs; a teacher

WordNet
instructor

n. a person whose occupation is teaching [syn: teacher]

Wikipedia
Instructor

Instructor may refer to:

In education:

In print media:

  • Juvenile Instructor, the official periodical of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) between 1901 and 1930
  • The Instructor, the official periodical of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) between 1930 and 1970
  • Instructor, a trade magazine for teachers published by Scholastic

In other uses:

  • Ground Instructor, a certificate issued in the United States by the Federal Aviation Administration that allows the holder to offer ground instruction

Usage examples of "instructor".

They had sat like that for as long as it took, and it was of Blackpool, and Paris, and windsurfing, and the feel of the wind as Barbs had floated above the earth in tandem with her skydiving instructor that Kate talked.

Heartly and Eglantine had, we found, been sufficiently long in Bath to become very able instructors to Transit and myself in all that related to the haute class, and old Barnaby Blackstrap was an equally able guide to every description of society, from the mediums down to the strange collections of vagrant oddities which are to be found in the back Janes and suburbs of the city of Bath.

We four students shook hands and chatted idly while we waited for our instructor, who wandered in shortly with a cup of coffee and a vague look on his face.

Similarly, the CIA instructors in the OPS training programs in the United States and Panama played a major role in instilling a counterinsurgent orientation among foreign police.

As soon as the last note died, the instructor rapped a pointer down on the lectern.

An employee at the Academy of Tennis of Enfield had been recruited and joined the Canadian instructor and student already inside for closer work of surveillance.

Moors and Parthians, who taught him to dart the javelin and to shoot with the bow, found a disciple who delighted in his application, and soon equalled the most skilful of his instructors in the steadiness of the eye and the dexterity of the hand.

Each individual instructor, professor or assistant-professor, or other person who performs experiments of any kind should be required to state what he has done.

His instructor in jurisprudence had been Abu Yusuf the Hanifite, whom his father Yahya had appointed to teach him.

Whether a missionary, Jesuit, or Jansenist, Protestant, Catholic, or Mohammedan, does well in forcing his own mode of life and faith on those who live a happier, freer life than any his instructor can hold out to them is a moot point.

I remembered that before Katie was born, my Lamaze instructor had commented that the pain of labor is much worse if the mother is afraid.

Although the instructors training the mujahedin had been drawn from the Pakistan army, the CIA had also been involved, gathering intelligence by monitoring Soviet ground and air communications.

The nursing instructors emphasized to the students that nurses were professionals in their own right.

UK, and back in the Paras, a lieutenant colonel and instructor at Camberley Staff College.

Imagine doing a fast cycle of chest press, biceps curl, shoulder press, lat pulldown, while simultaneously alternating leg press and thigh curl, with a troll drill instructor forcing your limbs into the right motion, then leaving you to deal with the weights yourself.