Gabbed vs Lectured - What's the difference?
gabbed | lectured |
(gab)
idle chatter
The mouth or gob.
One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
(obsolete) To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
(obsolete) To speak or tell falsely.
(lecture)
(senseid) A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
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, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture , with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
A berating or scolding.
(obsolete) The act of reading.
(senseid)(ambitransitive) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
To preach, to berate, to scold.
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As verbs the difference between gabbed and lectured
is that gabbed is past tense of gab while lectured is past tense of lecture.gabbed
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(head)gab
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* gabby * gift of the gabVerb
(gabb)Anagrams
* * * * ----lectured
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(head)lecture
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(wikipedia lecture)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(lectur)Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}