different between acquaint vs teach

English

Etymology

From Middle English aqueinten, acointen, from Old French acointier, from Late Latin accognit?re, from Latin ad + cognitus, past participle of cognoscere (“to know”), from con- + noscere (“to know”). See quaint, know.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kwe?nt/
• Hyphenation: ac?quaint
• Rhymes: -e?nt

Verb

acquaint (third-person singular simple present acquaints, present participle acquainting, simple past and past participle acquainted)

1. (transitive, followed by with) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar.
2. (transitive, archaic, followed by of or that) To communicate notice to; to inform; let know.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To familiarize; to accustom.
   • October 2 1642, Isaac Basire, letter to John Evelyn

     What success it may further have I shall acquaint you at my coming over

Synonyms

• (to make familiar): familiarize
• (to communicate notice to): advise, apprise, inform; See also Thesaurus:inform
• (to familiarize; to accustom): habituate, inure

Translations

Adjective

acquaint (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Acquainted.

Related terms

• acquaintance
• acquainted

References

• acquaint in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• acquaint in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• acquaint at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?t??/
• Rhymes: -i?t?

Etymology 1

From Middle English techen, from Old English t??an (“to show, declare, demonstrate; teach, instruct, train; assign, prescribe, direct; warn; persuade”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan, from Proto-Germanic *taikijan? (“to show”), from Proto-Indo-European *dey?- (“to show”). Cognate with Scots tech, teich (“to teach”), German zeigen (“to show, point out”), zeihen (“accuse, blame”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (gateihan, “to announce, declare, tell, show, display”), Latin d?c? (“speak, say, tell”), Ancient Greek ???????? (deíknumi, “show, point out, explain, teach”). More at token.

Verb

teach (third-person singular simple present teaches, present participle teaching, simple past and past participle taught)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
   • c1450, Mandeville's Travels?

     Blessed God of might (the) most.. teach us the right way unto that bliss that lasteth aye.

   • c1460, Cursor Mundi?

     Till thy sweet sun uprose, thou keptest all our lay, how we should keep our belief there taught'st thou us the way.
2. (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.

   Synonyms: educate, instruct

3. (intransitive) To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.

   Antonym: learn

4. (ditransitive) To cause to learn or understand.
5. (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

References

• The Middle English Dictionary
• NED

Etymology 2

Clipping of teacher

Noun

teach (plural teaches)

1. (informal, usually as a term of address) teacher

Anagrams

• 'tache, Tache, Taché, Tâche, chate, cheat, he-cat, tache, theca

Irish

Alternative forms

• tigh dative; has replaced the nominative in Munster Irish
• toigh (Ulster) dative; replaced the nominative in East Ulster.

Etymology

From Old Irish tech, from Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *tegos (“cover, roof”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?ax/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /t?æ?x/

Noun

teach m (genitive singular tí, nominative plural tithe)

1. house

Declension

• Alternative genitive singular: tighe, toighe
• Alternative dative singular: toigh
• Alternative plural: tithí (Ulster)

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "teach" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “tea?” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 724.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tech, teg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “teach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “teach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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Etymology

From Middle English techen, from Old English t??an, from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan.

Verb

teach (simple past teigkt or teight)

1. to hand or give

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN