TEACHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teaching mean? 

• TEACHING (noun)
  The noun TEACHING has 3 senses:

1. the profession of a teacher

2. a doctrine that is taught

3. the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill

  Familiarity information: TEACHING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEACHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The profession of a teacher

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

instruction; pedagogy; teaching

Context example:

pedagogy is recognized as an important profession

Hypernyms ("teaching" is a kind of...):

education (the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "teaching"):

catechetical instruction (teaching religious principles by questions and answers)

lecture; lecturing (teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class))

spoonfeeding (teaching in an overly simplified way that discourages independent thought)

hypnopedia; sleep-learning (teaching during sleep (as by using recordings to teach a foreign language to someone who is asleep))

lesson (a unit of instruction)

tuition; tutelage; tutorship (teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately))

indoctrination (teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically)

schooling (the act of teaching at school)

teaching reading (teaching beginners to read)

language teaching (teaching people to speak and understand a foreign language)

catechesis (oral religious instruction (as before baptism or confirmation))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A doctrine that is taught

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

commandment; precept; teaching

Context example:

he believed all the Christian precepts

Hypernyms ("teaching" is a kind of...):

doctrine; ism; philosophical system; philosophy; school of thought (a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "teaching"):

Golden Rule (a command based on Jesus' words in the Sermon on the Mount)

mitsvah; mitzvah ((Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

didactics; education; educational activity; instruction; pedagogy; teaching

Context example:

good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded

Hypernyms ("teaching" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Meronyms (parts of "teaching"):

lesson (a task assigned for individual study)

homework; prep; preparation (preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home))

classwork (the part of a student's work that is done in the classroom)

classroom project (a school task requiring considerable effort)

Domain member category:

education (the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university))

tuition; tuition fee (a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education))

Department of Education; Education; Education Department (the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979)

education (the gradual process of acquiring knowledge)

point system (a system of evaluation based on awarding points according to rules)

academic program ((education) a program of education in liberal arts and sciences (usually in preparation for higher education))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "teaching"):

continuing education (a program of instruction designed primarily for adult students who participate part-time)

class; course; course of instruction; course of study (education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings)

elementary education (education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school)

extension; extension service; university extension (an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students)

extracurricular activity (educational activities not falling within the scope of the regular curriculum)

higher education (education provided by a college or university)

secondary education (education beyond the elementary grades; provided by a high school or college preparatory school)

team teaching (a method of coordinated classroom teaching involving a team of teachers working together with a single group of students)

work-study program (an educational plan in which students alternate between paid employment and formal study)

coeducation (education of men and women in the same institutions)

Derivation:

teach (impart skills or knowledge to)

 Context examples 

I often feel as if I needed teaching more than ever since these babies look to me for everything.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The Extramural Research Program supports the work of scientists in universities, teaching hospitals, and other organizations outside NCI.

(Extramural Research Program, NCI Thesaurus)

The teaching or training of patients concerning their own health needs.

(Patient Education, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Pluto has been teaching you to look inside and find your unique talents, and when you locate them, to develop them.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Nothing particular; teaching Adele as usual.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her mother was three months in teaching her only to repeat the “Beggar's Petition”; and after all, her next sister, Sally, could say it better than she did.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I resigned the belt when I could get no one to fight me for it, and I took to teaching.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The teachings of twenty years cried out against such license.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Softened regrets they might be, teaching me what I had failed to learn when my younger life was all before me, but not the less regrets.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is a consortium made up of Baylor College of Medicine and its three primary teaching hospital affiliates: Ben Taub Hospital, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Texas Children's Hospital.

(Dan L Duncan Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)