Instruct vs Snort - 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
The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.
(slang) A dose of a drug to be snorted. Here, "drug" includes snuff (i.e., pulverized tobacco). A snort also may be a drink of whiskey, as "Let's have a snort".
(slang) An alcoholic drink.
* 1951 , Indiana Historical Society Publications (volumes 16-17, page 157)
To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.
(slang) To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.
(obsolete) To snore.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between instruct and snort
is that instruct is to teach by giving instructions while snort is to make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.As nouns the difference between instruct and snort
is that instruct is instruction while snort is the sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.As an adjective instruct
is arranged; furnished; provided.instruct
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(en verb)Synonyms
* guideAdjective
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snort
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Noun
(en noun)- Everybody tipped up the jug and took a snort of whisky and followed it with a gourd of cool water. We thought a snort of whisky now and then braced us up some and put a little more lift in us.
Verb
(en verb)- She snorted with laughter.
- to snort cocaine
- The snorting citizens.