A Topical Dictionary: Search for instruction

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Instruction \In*struc"tion\, n. [L. instructio: cf. F.
instruction.]
[1913 Webster]
1. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with
knowledge; information.
[1913 Webster]

2. That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the
intelligence or information imparted; as:
(a) Precept; information; teachings.
(b) Direction; order; command. "If my instructions may be
your guide." --Shak.

3. (Computers) a segment of coded data that is interpreted by
a computer as a command to perform an operation or series
of operations. The term instruction is applied to both the
electronic form of the data as represented in and executed
by the computer, and to any line of written computer code
which is interpreted as one instruction by a compiler. A
computer program is comprised of one or more
instructions.

Note: Instructions as contained in a program are formulated
in a programming language, which may be an {assembly
language}, in which one instruction corresponds to one
command executed by the coputer, or in a {higher-level
programming language}, in which one instruction may
represent one of many instructions in {assembly
language}. Higher-level programming languages include,
for example, FORTRAN, ALGOL, ADA, C, "C++", COBOL, and
JAVA; each of these languages have their own
distinctive set of allowable instructions.

Syn: command, statement, line of code, program line.
[PJC]

Syn: Education; teaching; indoctrination; information;
advice; counsel. See Education.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet instruction
n 1: a message describing how something is to be done; "he gave
directions faster than she could follow them" [syn: direction]
2: the activities of educating or instructing or teaching;
activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no
formal education"; "our instruction was carefully
programmed"; "good teaching is seldom rewarded" [syn: education,
teaching, pedagogy, educational activity]
3: the profession of a teacher; "he prepared for teaching while
still in college"; "pedagogy is recognized as an important
profession" [syn: teaching, pedagogy]
4: (computer science) a line of code written as part of a
computer program [syn: command, statement, {program
line}]

Moby Dictionary
accomplishments , account , acquaintance , acquisition of knowledge ,
acquisitions , admonition , advice , advising , advocacy , announcement ,
assignment , attainments , blue book , brief , briefing , bulletin ,
catechization , caution , caveat , chalk talk , charge , classes ,
coaching , command , commission , communication , communique ,
consultation , council , counsel , data , datum , dictate , didactics ,
direction , directive , directory , discourse , dispatch , disquisition ,
drill , drilling , edification , education , enlightenment , evidence ,
exercise , exhortation , exposition , expostulation , facts ,
factual information , familiarization , gen , general information ,
general orders , guidance , guidebook , guideline , handout , harangue ,
hard information , homework , homily , hortation , idea , illumination ,
incidental information , indoctrination , info , information ,
injunction , instructions , intelligence , knowledge , learning ,
lecture , lecture-demonstration , lesson , lessons , liberal education ,
light , mention , message , monition , moral , moral lesson , morality ,
moralization , notice , notification , object lesson , opinion , order ,
parley , pedagogics , pedagogy , preachment , precept , preparation ,
prescript , prescription , presentation , private teaching ,
programmed instruction , promotional material , proof , proposal ,
publication , publicity , recital , recitation , recommendation ,
reeducation , regulation , release , remonstrance , report , rule ,
schooling , self-instruction , self-teaching , sermon , set task ,
sidelight , skull session , sophistication , spoon-feeding , statement ,
store of knowledge , suggestion , talk , task , teaching , the dope ,
the goods , the know , the scoop , thought , training , transmission ,
tuition , tutelage , tutorage , tutorial , tutoring , tutorship ,
warning , white book , white paper , word

INSTRUCTION, French law. This word signifies the means used and formality employed to prepare a case for trial. it is generally applied to criminal cases, and is then called criminal, instruction; it is then defined the acts and proceedings which tend to prove positively a crime or delict, in order to inflict on the guilty person the punishment which he deserves.