Teachable vs Teach - What's the difference?
teachable | teach |
Capable of being taught; apt to learn.
Willing to receive instruction or to learn; docile.
That can be taught.
Facilitating teaching; instructive.
* 2011 , Marjorie Kostelnik, Kara Gregory, Anne Soderman, Guiding Children's Social Development and Learning (page 10)
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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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
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As an adjective teachable
is capable of being taught; apt to learn.As a proper noun teach is
(slang) nickname for a teacher.teachable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Common sense is not a teachable subject.
- Such natural opportunities for social learning become teachable moments, in which children are motivated to learn new strategies.
Synonyms
* docileReferences
* *Anagrams
*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.}}