Instruction vs Instructional - What's the difference?
instruction | instructional |
(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.
Intended for purposes of instruction, for teaching.
A book, film, etc. intended to instruct.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 18, author=Ginia Bellafante, title=Mommy’s Dearest, work=New York Times
, passage=On legitimate days off, during the summer, Klam received poolside instructionals in monied femininity from Marcia and her three sisters ? “the Jewish Gang of Four.” }}
As nouns the difference between instruction and instructional
is that instruction is the act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge while instructional is a book, film, etc. intended to instruct.As an adjective instructional is
intended for purposes of instruction, for teaching.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 alsoinstructional
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The manual might have been instructional had anybody actually taken the time to read it.
Noun
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