lecture

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Founder's wife asked Horvath out and gave her a lecture about who is the boss.

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Quick take

a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of lecture gathered in one view.

noun

a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications"

noun

a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to"

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lecture.

noun

a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications"

noun

a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to"

noun

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

verb

deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"

verb

censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"

See also: rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, reprimand, jaw, scold, chide, berate

Example sentences

Founder's wife asked Horvath out and gave her a lecture about who is the boss.

The surface pro would have been exactly what I wanted in undergrad physics for a lecture-hall machine.

"George Plya, whose lectures at ETH Zurich von Neumann attended as a student, said "Johnny was the only student I was ever afraid of.

I'm imagining Autodesk's M&A team are right now getting a lecture on what "CAM" stands for by the engineers and that there will be some facepalming.

Cargo Cult Education - Schools are built, students attend, teachers lecture, assignments turned in, tests taken and degrees granted.

If in the course of a lecture I stated an unsolved problem, the chances were he'd come to me at the end of the lecture with the complete solution scribbled on a slip of paper.

He gave a lecture to one of my classes about FOP and it was so inspiring to see how much progress he has made on a disease with only a handful of cases that was supposed to be impossible to cure.