Impart vs Lecture - What's the difference?
impart | lecture |
To give a (l) or (l).
To (l) the (l) of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= To hold a (l) or (l).
To obtain a share of; to partake of.
(senseid) A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture , with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
A berating or scolding.
(obsolete) The act of reading.
(senseid)(ambitransitive) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
To preach, to berate, to scold.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title=
As verbs the difference between impart and lecture
is that impart is to give a (l) or (l) while lecture is (senseid)(ambitransitive) to teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.As a noun lecture is
(senseid) a spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.impart
English
Verb
(en verb)- Well may he then to you his cares impart .
- Gentle lady, / When I did first impart my love to you.
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
- (Munday)
Synonyms
* (to give a part or share) (l), (l), (l) * (to communicate knowledge of) (l), (l)Anagrams
* (l) * (l)lecture
English
(wikipedia lecture)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(lectur)Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}