Teached vs Though - What's the difference?
teached | though |
(nonstandard, colloquial, dialectal) (teach)
* {{quote-book, year=1850, author=Unknown Author, title=Jemmy Stubbins, or The Nailer Boy, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I always like to be there to teach or to be teached . }}
* {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Ruth McEnery Stuart, title=Sonny, A Christmas Guest, chapter=, edition=
, passage=His Sam failed to pass at the preliminar' examination, an' wasn't allowed to try for a diplomy in public; an' Enoch an' his wife, why, they seem to hold it ag'in' me thet Sonny could step in at the last moment an' take what their boy could n't git th'oo the trials an' tribulations of a whole year o' bein' teached lessons at home an' wrestled in prayer over. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1936-1938, author=Works Projects Administration, title=Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Ole Missus and Marse learn't me to never tell a lie, and she teached me dat's de way to git along well. }}
(lb) Despite that; however.
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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (lb) Used to intensify statements or questions; indeed.
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Despite the fact that; although.
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
(lb) If, that, even if.
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* 1945 , (Oscar Hammerstein II), “ (musical)
*:Walk on through the wind, / Walk on through the rain, / Though your dreams be tossed and blown.
As a verb teached
is (nonstandard|colloquial|dialectal) (teach).As an adverb though is
(lb) despite that; however.As a conjunction though is
despite the fact that; although.teached
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Usage notes
The correct past of teach is taught.Anagrams
*though
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Alternative forms
* tho *Adverb
(-)Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.