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Instruction vs Instructive - What's the difference?

instruction | instructive |

As nouns the difference between instruction and instructive

is that instruction is the act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge while instructive is a case in the Finnish language. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.

As an adjective instructive is

conveying knowledge, information or instruction.

instruction

Noun

  • (lb) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.
  • :
  • :
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=5, title= 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.”}}
  • (lb) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:If my instructions may be your guide.
  • (lb) An order or command.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    instructive

    English

    (wikipedia)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
  • Well, that was an instructive lesson.

    Synonyms

    * informative

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) A case in the Finnish language. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.