Teach vs Mumble - What's the difference?
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To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct.
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(label) To pass on knowledge to.
(label) To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
(label) To cause to learn or understand.
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(intransitive) To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate.
* Shakespeare
* Otway
To chew something gently with closed lips.
A quiet or unintelligible vocalization.
A low tone of voice.
Teach is a related term of mumble.
As a proper noun teach
is (slang) nickname for a teacher.As a verb mumble is
(intransitive) to speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate.As a noun mumble is
a quiet or unintelligible vocalization.teach
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) techen, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
- So thus within a whyle as they thus talked the nyghte passed / and the daye shone / and thenne syre launcelot armed hym / and took his hors / and they taught hym to the Abbaye and thyder he rode within the space of two owrys
Rob Dorit
Making Life from Scratch, passage=Deep Blue taught' us a great deal about the power of the human mind precisely because it could not reproduce the intuitive and logical leaps of Kasparov’s mind. A truly synthetic cell, built from scratch or even from preexisting components, will be a cell without ancestry, and it, too, will ' teach us a great deal about the underlying complexities of life without actually reproducing them.}}
Synonyms
* (sense) educate, instructAntonyms
* (sense) learnDerived terms
* * teacher * teachingEtymology 2
(probably clipping)Noun
(es)mumble
English
Verb
- Please try not to mumble so I can hear you better.
- Peace, you mumbling fool.
- A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, / Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* mumblage * mumblecore * mumblenews * mumbler * mumblety pegNoun
(en noun)- All I could hear was a mumble from the next room.
- ''He spoke in a mumble .
