Instruct vs Remark - What's the difference?
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(label) to teach by giving instructions
(label) to direct; to order (usage note : "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier than "advise")
(label) arranged; furnished; provided
* Chapman
(label) instructed; taught; enlightened
Act of pointing out or attentively noticing; notice or observation.
The expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; the mention of that which is worthy of attention or notice; hence, also, a casual observation, comment, or statement; as, a pertinent remark.
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, title= To make a remark or remarks; to comment.
To mark in a notable manner; to distinguish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to point out.
* Ford
* Milton
To take notice of, or to observe, mentally.
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To express in words or writing, as observed or noticed; to state; to say; -- often with a substantive clause
Instruct is a related term of remark.
As verbs the difference between instruct and remark
is that instruct is (label) to teach by giving instructions while remark is to make a remark or remarks; to comment or remark can be to mark again (a piece of work).As nouns the difference between instruct and remark
is that instruct is (label) instruction while remark is act of pointing out or attentively noticing; notice or observation or remark can be a mark that replaces another mark.As an adjective instruct
is (label) arranged; furnished; provided.instruct
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(en verb)Synonyms
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remark
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(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) remarquer, from ; see mark.Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
Verb
(en verb)- Thou art a man remarked to taste a mischief.
- His manacles remark him; there he sits.
- He remarked that it was time to go.