lecture
1. a speech that is open to the public (Freq. 8)
- he attended a lecture on telecommunications
• Syn:
public lecture, talk
• Derivationally related forms:
talk (for: talk), lectureship
• Hypernyms:
address, speech
2. a lengthy rebuke
- a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline
- the teacher gave him a talking to
• Syn:
speech, talking to
• Derivationally related forms:
speechify (for: speech)
• Hypernyms:
rebuke, reproof, reproval, reprehension, reprimand
• Hyponyms:
sermon, preaching, curtain lecture
3. teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
• Syn:
lecturing
• Derivationally related forms:
lectureship
• Hypernyms:
teaching, instruction, pedagogy
• Hyponyms:
talk
• Part Holonyms:
course, course of study, course of instruction, class
• Part Meronyms:
lecture demonstration
1. deliver a lecture or talk (Freq. 4)
- She will talk at Rutgers next week
- Did you ever lecture at Harvard?
• Syn:
talk
• Derivationally related forms:
talk (for: talk), talker (for: talk), lecturer
• Hypernyms:
teach, learn, instruct
• Hyponyms:
preach, prophesy
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Something ----s to somebody
- Somebody ----s on something
- Sam and Sue lecture
2. censure severely or angrily (Freq. 1)
- 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
• Syn:
call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce,
reproof, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold,
chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up,
have words, lambaste, lambast
• Derivationally related forms:
chiding (for: chide), scolder (for: scold), scolding (for: scold), reprimand (for: reprimand), reproof (for: reproof), rebuker (for: rebuke), rebuke (for: rebuke)
• Hypernyms:
knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
• Hyponyms:
chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct,
tell off, brush down
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s PP (for: have words)
- Somebody ----s PP (for: remonstrate)
- Somebody ----s PP (for: jaw)
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