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lecture
('l/E/k/tS//@/r
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noun (n)
- a speech that is open to the public(noun.communication)Example:
He attended a lecture on telecommunications.
source: wordnet30 - a lengthy rebuke(noun.communication)Example:
A good lecture was my father's idea of discipline.
source: wordnet30 - teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)(noun.act)source: wordnet30
- The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.(noun)source: webster1913
verb (v)
- deliver a lecture or talk(verb.communication)Example:
Did you ever lecture at Harvard?.
source: wordnet30 - censure severely or angrily(verb.communication)Synonym:
bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scoldsource: wordnet30 - To read or deliver a lecture to.(verb)source: webster1913
- To deliver a lecture or lectures.(verb)source: webster1913
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