Instructed vs Mandatory - What's the difference?
instructed | mandatory |
(instruct)
(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
Obligatory; required or commanded by authority.
* 1999 , Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind , page 276
Of, being or relating to a mandate.
(dated, rare) A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.
As a verb instructed
is (instruct).As an adjective mandatory is
obligatory; required or commanded by authority.As a noun mandatory is
(dated|rare) a person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.instructed
English
Verb
(head)instruct
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Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* guideAdjective
(-)- (Milton)
mandatory
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Attendance at a school is usually mandatory .
- This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'.
- Mandatory Palestine
Synonyms
* compulsory * obligatoryAntonyms
* (obligatory) optional * (obligatory) electiveDerived terms
* mandatorinessNoun
(mandatories)External links
* * *Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary*
The Oxford English Dictionary