/tiːt͡ʃ/
OriginFrom Middle English techen, from Old English tǣċan (“to show, declare, demonstrate; teach, instruct, train; assign, prescribe, direct; warn; persuade”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan, from Proto-Germanic *taikijaną (“to show”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show”).
Cognate with Scots tech, teich (“to teach”), German zeigen (“to show, point out”), zeihen (“accuse, blame”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (gateihan, “to announce, declare, tell, show, display”), Latin dīcō (“speak, say, tell”), Ancient Greek δείκνυμι (deíknumi, “show, point out, explain, teach”), Sanskrit दिशति (diśati, “to point out, show, tell, teach”). More at token.
- ditransitiveTo pass on knowledge to.
“Can you teach me to sew? Can you teach sewing to me?”
- intransitive, stativeTo pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
“She used to teach at university.”
- ditransitiveTo cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).
“The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its t”
“Deep Blue taught us a great deal about the power of the human mind precisely because it could not reproduce the intuitive and logical leaps of Kasparov’s mind. A truly synthetic cell, built from scrat”
“In Episode 3, Gia incorporates very distinct and strong gestures as she teaches Havelock the phrase, "Unte kowlting gut, to pochuye ke?" ("And everything will be okay, understand?")”
- ditransitiveTo cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.
“I'll teach you to make fun of me!”
- obsolete, transitiveTo show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
“‘The bliss is there’, mumbled the old man and taught to Heaven.”
“c1450, Mandeville's Travelsː
Blessed God of might (the) most.. teach us the right way unto that bliss that lasteth aye.”
“c1460, Cursor Mundiː
Till thy sweet sun uprose, thou keptest all our lay, how we should keep our belief there taught'st thou us the way.”
- informal, term-of-address, usuallyteacher
- slangNickname for a teacher.
“I'm not in trouble again, am I, Teach?”
- A surname. Most commonly associated with the pirate Blackbeard, who gave his real name as Edward Teach, Thatch, or Tack.
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