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Teaches vs Teaching - What's the difference?

teaches | teaching |

As verbs the difference between teaches and teaching

is that teaches is (teach) while teaching is .

As a noun teaching is

something taught by a religious or philosophical authority.

teaches

English

Verb

(head)
  • (teach)
  • Anagrams

    * *

    teach

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) techen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

  • To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct.
  • * :
  • 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
  • (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;
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Rob Dorit
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= 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, instruct
    Antonyms
    * (sense) learn
    Derived terms
    * * teacher * teaching

    Etymology 2

    (probably clipping)

    Noun

    (es)
  • (pejorative) teacher
  • teaching

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something taught by a religious or philosophical authority.
  • Many follow the teachings of Confucius.
  • The profession of teaching.
  • Teaching has seen continual changes over the past decades.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

    *