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teaching

noun
/ˈtiːt͡ʃɪŋ/

Etymology

From Middle English techinge, techynge, techende, techand, from Old English tǣċende, from Proto-Germanic *taikijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *taikijaną (“to show, point out”), equivalent to teach + -ing.

  1. derived from *taikijaną✻ — “to show, point out”
  2. inherited from *taikijandz✻
  3. inherited from tǣċende
  4. inherited from techinge

Definitions

  1. Something taught by a religious or philosophical authority.

    • Many follow the teachings of Confucius.

  2. The profession of educating people

    The profession of educating people; the activity that a teacher does when he/she teaches.

    • Teaching has seen continual changes over the past decades.
    • I have found a teaching job.
    • a teaching assistant

  3. present participle and gerund of teach

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at teaching. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at teaching. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at teaching

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA