Lecture
['lektʃə] or ['lɛktʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class).
(noun.) a lengthy rebuke; 'a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline'; 'the teacher gave him a talking to'.
(noun.) a speech that is open to the public; 'he attended a lecture on telecommunications'.
(verb.) deliver a lecture or talk; 'She will talk at Rutgers next week'; 'Did you ever lecture at Harvard?'.
Checker: Tina--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.
(n.) A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes, a familiar discourse, in contrast with a sermon.
(n.) A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority.
(n.) A rehearsal of a lesson.
(v. t.) To read or deliver a lecture to.
(v. t.) To reprove formally and with authority.
(v. i.) To deliver a lecture or lectures.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Discourse, prelection.[2]. Formal censure, lesson.
v. a. [1]. Deliver a lecture to.[2]. Reprove formally.
Typist: Sadie
Definition
n. a discourse on any subject esp. a professional or tutorial discourse: an expository and discursive religious discourse usually based on an extended passage of Scripture rather than a single text: an endowed lectureship as the Bampton Hulsean &c.: a formal reproof.—v.t. to instruct by discourses: to instruct authoritatively: to reprove.—v.i. to give a lecture or lectures.—ns. Lec′turer one who lectures: one of a class of preachers in the Church of England chosen by the vestry and supported by voluntary contributions; Lec′tureship the office of a lecturer.
Checker: Vernon
Unserious Contents or Definition
An entertainment at which it costs but little to look intelligent.
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Examples
- Really, girls, you are both to be blamed, said Meg, beginning to lecture in her elder-sisterly fashion. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He had it written up for the newspapers, and advertised public demonstrations of its powers, and arranged that Bell should lecture on it in different cities. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Caroline came, expecting, as Shirley did, a lecture on not having been visible at church. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It shall be a parlour-curtain lecture. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- That's for you, nurse, said he; you can go down; I'll give Miss Jane a lecture till you come back. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I never lecture Henry, never feel disposed to do so. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This boyish notion won no converts, and at the age of eighteen he went on a lecture tour on chemistry, under the dignified title of Dr. Coult. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Coleridge said, I attend Davy’s lectures to increase my stock of metaphors, and there were many others who went to hear the young chemist for other reasons than a liking for science. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- She would just give me something to do, to rectify--a theme for my tutor lectures. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- True, when he was an undergraduate at Yale he had been much interested in Professor Day’s lectures on electricity, and had written long letters home in regard to them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Six weeks after he arrived he began his first course of lectures, taking for his subject the history of galvanism, and the various methods of accumulating galvanic influence. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Krempe had given me concerning the lectures. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- You know, as well as I do, no young people have circus masters, or keep circuses in cabinets, or attend lectures about circuses. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He lectured bef ore the Dublin Society in 1810, and again in the following year; on the occasion of his second visit receiving the degree of LL . Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I lectured her on the subject; I showed her her duty. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- No--nor to be lectured, Bertha, really; if that's what you are doing to me now. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I have lectured her on the duty of being careful, said she, in a way quite new to her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I'm not going to be lectured and pummelled by everyone, just for a bit of a frolic. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They had been lectured at, from their tenderest years; coursed, like little hares. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- We love to hear them at it, after they have been lecturing us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He held it up and tapped on it with his long, thin fore-finger, as a professor might who was lecturing on a bone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I heard him, too, in the warm evenings, lecturing with open doors, and his name, with anecdotes of him, resounded in ones ears from all sides. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Becky was just lecturing Mrs. Osborne upon the follies which her husband was committing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then, she went on, addressing herself to Robert Jordan now as though she were speaking to a classroom; almost as though she were lecturing. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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