Suggestion vs Instruction - What's the difference?
suggestion | instruction |
(countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for )
(uncountable) The act of suggesting.
(countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
(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.
In countable terms the difference between suggestion and instruction
is that suggestion is something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for while instruction is an order or command.In uncountable terms the difference between suggestion and instruction
is that suggestion is the act of suggesting while instruction is the act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.suggestion
English
(wikipedia suggestion)Noun
- I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.
- Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.
- Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
- He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.
Synonyms
* (something suggested) proposal * See alsoDerived terms
* autosuggestion * hypnotic suggestion * power of suggestion * suggestion boxinstruction
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.”}}