Instruction vs Caution - What's the difference?
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(lb) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:If my instructions may be your guide.
(lb) An order or command.
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*: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.
Precept or warning against evil or danger of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction.
* Shakespeare
A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness.
Security; guaranty; bail.
* Clarendon
One who gives rise to attention or astonishment.
A formal warning given as an alternative to prosecution in minor cases.
Instruction is a related term of caution.
As nouns the difference between instruction and caution
is that instruction is (lb) the act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge while caution is precept or warning against evil or danger of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction.As a verb caution is
to warn; to alert, advise that caution is warranted.instruction
Noun
F. E. Penny
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.”}}
Synonyms
* See alsocaution
English
Noun
(en noun)- In way of caution I must tell you.
- The Parliament would yet give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be prosecuted.
- Oh, that boy, he's a caution ! He does make me laugh.