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lecture English

Meaning lecture meaning

What does lecture mean?
Definitions in simple English

lecture Noun

— A lecture is a talk about a specific topic. Usually, it is a planned talk and it often lasts a long time. My teacher is giving a lecture on human rights tonight at the university.

lecture Verb

— If you lecture someone, you teach them something. — If you lecture someone, you scold them.

lecture

— noun a speech that is open to the public he attended a lecture on telecommunications — verb (= talk) deliver a lecture or talk She will talk at Rutgers next week Did you ever lecture at Harvard? — verb (= rag, dress down, scold) censure severely or angrily The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car The deputy ragged the Prime Minister The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup — noun (= talking to) a lengthy rebuke a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline the teacher gave him a talking to — noun teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)

Synonyms lecture synonyms

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lecture English » English

speech talk discourse address sermon reprimand lesson scold rebuke report preach berate presentation preaching chide admonish reproof lecturing dress down admonition trounce tell off teaching teach talking to take to task sermonize reprove reproach remonstrate read aloud rate rag public lecture paper oration orate meeting lambaste lambast jaw instruction instruct have words harangue give a lecture exposition explanation exhortation educate

Topics lecture topics

What do people use lecture to talk about?
Language and thought Communication

Make speech
Language and thought

Teach
Language and thought Teach

Class, lesson
Social behavior Conflict Peace

Rebuke
Language and thought Teach

School

Conjugation lecture conjugation

How do you conjugate lecture?

lecture · verb

Examples lecture examples

How do I use lecture in a sentence?

Simple sentences

When we arrived, the lecture had already begun.
I wasn't interested in that topic, so I left the lecture.
The data suggest that the optimum length of a lecture may be 30 instead of 60 minutes.
The professor gave a lecture on the Middle East.
We listened to his lecture on the radio.
Then he got dressed, stuffed his lecture notes into his briefcase, and ran down the stairs.
The anthropologist delivered a lecture on primitive cultures.
You kept nodding off during that lecture, didn't you?
So boring was the lecture that he fell asleep.
She was very bored during the lecture.
I concentrated my attention on the lecture.
I ought to have attended the lecture but I didn't.
I fell asleep in the middle of the lecture.
His lecture had a large audience.
His lecture is very long.
The students sat still, listening to the lecture.
A few people came to the lecture.
The lecture covered a lot of ground.
The scientist gave a lecture on the structure of the universe.
The lecture lasted for two hours.
The lecture started on schedule.

Movie subtitles

It's a lecture on entrepreneurship, about how the books written by Horatio Alger need not be seen as a myth.
So does the lecture.
Right, well, I'll attend the lecture then, I suppose.
Of course you'll attend the bloody lecture!
A bite to eat before our lecture?
Well, you can't be attending the lecture.
You'll be at the lecture.
The Ukrainian prince will deliver a lecture about the death of Ukraine due to the Bolsheviks. At the end of the lecture. Before respected audience's eyes he will shot himself dead with his own revolver.
The bodies we use now, dissecting them for lecture purposes, were not perfect enough for his experiments, he said.
Why don't you stay at home and send your other self to the lecture?
Dr. Von HaIlor is the eminent Austrian psychiatrist. probably the greatest authority on the subject in the world. At present, he's in this country on a lecture tour. and has graciously volunteered his services.
Your lecture.
You may have heard me lecture.
In the meantime, Henk van de Huist received an invitation from Oxford to give the famous Halley Lecture in May 1953.
In that lecture he wanted to show the first map of the distribution of hydrogen clouds in the Galaxy.
We sat there, I'd almost say, locked up in the Observatory's lecture room for a week.
After Van de Hulst's Oxford Lecture a second survey started in November 1953.
Now, let us go on with our lecture.
I wish you'd go on without your lecture.
He's here on a lecture tour and has volunteered his services.
He could lecture on wildlife and handle wild animals as never before.
What do you lecture about?
Don't start the lecture. I've had enough of that.
To lecture me.
Thanks, Schoolmaster Bacon, for that sound lecture and the sound advice.
Now, my next lecture.
You trying to lecture your dad, you little squirt?
Next lecture at half past Tuesday.
Miss Spencer said something about attending a lecture on tropical fish.
The only thing he ever gives me is a lecture on my radical views.
We'll put the lecture off.
I'm late for my lecture on Argentine ceramics, so I won't wait.
Oh, who got me into this lecture tour?
Did you know Jeff was going on a six-weeks lecture tour?
Mrs Wilson, please serve the guests. Don't lecture them.
Then one semester an old Austrian professor came to lecture.

News and current affairs

Anyone who goes to international conferences is used to hearing Americans lecture everyone else about transparency.
I delivered a lecture in Myanmar in December 2009.
Rich countries have long meddled, often with their own corruption and incompetence, in the internal affairs of the countries that they now lecture.
But if the rest of the world really wants to help, it should lecture America along the lines I suggest.
In the past, when politicians debated the EU's future, they spoke of a definitive formula for European integration, as defined in a famous lecture in 2000 by German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer.
In mid-August, at the First IISS Oberoi Lecture in Mumbai, Klaus Regling, the CEO of the European Financial Stability Facility, underscored the importance of Chinese demand for EFSF bonds and China's role in stabilizing the eurozone.
This often made it difficult to attribute authorship, because a text might consist of a copied lecture in which the copyist's comments were inserted and then perhaps altered as the book passed to other hands.
Advocates of globalization lecture incessantly about the adjustments countries must undertake in their policies and institutions in order to expand their international trade and become more attractive to investors.
Suppose that during a public lecture, some people feel hot and ask that the windows be opened; others disagree.
Yet the audience might be comprised of individuals unknown to one another, without mutual concern, brought together only by the lecture.
They therefore see its rule over them as illegitimate, which is precisely the point: the logic of popular sovereignty requires an idea of collective agency based on a sense of individual belonging that is much stronger than in our lecture audience.
I would stand before a class and give a one-hour lecture.
The Science Museum cancelled a lecture Watson was to give about his book and his career.
Rockefeller University also cancelled a lecture that Watson had been scheduled to give.
After the fall of France, Maritain decided to remain in the US, where he happened to find himself after a lecture tour (the Gestapo searched his house outside Paris in vain).
If anything, the lecture underscored how out of touch Al Qaeda's senior leaders are with the spirit of the time.
During a lecture at Uppsala University last summer, a mob attacked Vilks, a professor of art history, while crying Allahu akbar.
By 2000, European senior bureaucrats began to dread the approach of each international meeting as the likely occasion for yet another lecture by the Americans on how Europe needed to become much more like America right now.
For example, he was widely criticized for a lecture in 2008 in which he spoke about the relationship between Islamic Sharia law and the British legal system.
Even on the issue of democracy, the US prefers to lecture other dictatorships rather than the world's largest autocracy.
The extent to which concern for human rights should be a consideration in setting foreign policy is a contentious issue in most democracies, which often believe that their own record entitles them to lecture others.
On a lecture tour in the United States in November 2008, I could see that many people are now complaining about the overwhelming desire for profit in business and megalomania in politics.
Ever since I began teaching 30 years ago, it had seemed that the technology was rather fixed. I would stand before a class and give a one-hour lecture.

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