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Lecture vs Minilecture - What's the difference?

lecture | minilecture |

As nouns the difference between lecture and minilecture

is that lecture is (a spoken lesson) A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group while minilecture is a short lecture.

As a verb lecture

is (to teach) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.

lecture

English

(wikipedia lecture)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.

    • Verb

    (lectur)
  • (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= 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.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * lecturer

    Related terms

    * analects * lectern * lection * lesson ----

    minilecture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short lecture.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 25, author=Sheryl Gay Stolberg, title=Bush Makes Sales Pitch for Proposal on Energy, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=After hearing a minilecture on how plants are converted into sugars, and the sugars then distilled into fuel, Mr. Bush, a former Texas oilman who has proclaimed Americans “addicted to oil,” lifted up a glass beaker of switchgrass, a perennial grass that looks like hay, and stared into a bank of television cameras to drive his point home. }}