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Custody vs Instruction - What's the difference?

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Custody is a related term of instruction.


As nouns the difference between custody and instruction

is that custody is the legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children while instruction is (lb) the act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.

custody

English

Noun

(wikipedia custody) (-)
  • The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
  • The court awarded custody to the child's father.
  • Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.
  • I couldn't pay the bill and now my passport is in custody of the hotel management.
  • The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.
  • He was mistreated while in police custody .

    Derived terms

    * joint custody * maternal custody * paternal custody * protective custody * sole custody

    instruction

    Noun

  • (lb) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.
  • :
  • :
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=5, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
  • (lb) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:If my instructions may be your guide.
  • (lb) An order or command.
  • *
  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
  • (lb) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
  • Synonyms

    * See also