hot /hotjhait (adj] food that has a hot taste seems to burn your mouth, and makes you want to drink a lot of water: Bring me the hottest curry on the menu. I The sauce had a hot peppery taste. hot - hotter - hottest
spicy spaisi [adj] spicy food has various strong hot pleasant tastes in it: Remember my mother doesn't like spicy food, so don't put too much ginger in it. I The meat is served with a spicy peanut sauce.
spicy - spicier - spiciest
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teach tirtjy |у I/T) to help someone to learn a subject or skill, by giving them lessons or instructions, especially when this is your job: She teaches at the local high school.
teach sth I got a job teaching French
and Spanish. I He was working at the
technology school, teaching classes in
computer programming.
teach sb I didn't enjoy teaching
teenagers.
teach sb sth You remember Mr Hughes
- he used to teach us history.
teach sb to do sth/how to do sth Who
taught you to drive? f It was my mother that taught me how to cook.
teaching - taught - have taught
train /trein/' [и T] to teach someone the practical skills and knowledge that they
need to do a job: She works at the flying
school, training pilots.
train sb to do sth All our staff will be
trained to use the new computer system. I
They had trained the dog to detect illegal
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drugs.
train sb in sth We train people in skills such as typing and business administration.
trained [ad/1 a shortage of trained medical staff
teaching /tiitfii]/ [n U] the work that a
teacher does, or the job of being a
teacher: Andrea took some time off from teaching when her children were small, go into teaching (=become a teacher) What made you decide to go into teaching?
professor /pr3'fes9r/ In CI a university teacher - used in Britain to mean a teacher of the highest rank, and in the US to mean any university teacher who has a higher degree such as a PhD: a /inguistics professor
+ of She's a professor of history at
Oxford.
? ' You can also use professor as a title: Our guest speaker today is Professor Julius Weissman from the University of Chicago.
training I'treinirj/ [n U] the process of teaching people the skills that are needed for a job: The equipment can only be used by people who have had special training. I military training I a training course
someone who teaches
teacher / tiitjV/ [n CJ someone who teaches, especially someone whose job is to teach children in a schooclass="underline" She's a teacher in the high school. English/science/chemistry etc teacher The school doesn't have enough French teachers.
+ of a conference for high-school teachers
of Spanish
a good/bad teacher J gave her some driving lessons, but I'm afraid I'm not a very good teacher.
tutor /'tjuitsftu:-/ [n C) someone who gives lessons to just one student or a small group of students: When she was ill she studied at home with a private tutor. I They hired a tutor to help Carlos with his Јng/ish.
instructor /instrAkt^V [n CI someone who teaches a sport or a practical skill a swimming/driving/riding etc instructor Do you know any good driving instructors? I a ski instructor
Teaching can also be used before a noun, like an adjective: Do you have any teaching experience? I a teaching job
coach /кэш// [n CI someone who trains a person or a team in a sport, and helps them to improve their skill a basketball/football/tennis coach a successful football coach
Never use professor to mean a school teacher.
lecturer /'lektj<?r9r/ [n C] BRITISH someone
who teaches at a university or college: a chemistry lecturer + in a lecturer in economics
books, games etc that teach something
/,edju keipn э 1 <«||,ed3э-/ [adj] educational books, games, television programmes etc are designed to help you to learn something: educational toys for 7 to 11 year-olds I a leading publisher of educational books and software
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television/TV /'tel^.vivn. .teli'viyn, ,ti: vi:/ [n U] the system of broadcasting pictures and sound, or the programmes that are broadcast in this way: Television brings
euenis like the Olympic Games into mil lions of homes. I the educational uses of television
watch television/TV She just sits there all day watching television, on television/TV (=shown on television) products that you see advertised on TV television/TV (also television set formal)
You can also use television or TV before anounjikean adjective: a television company 1 the television studios I a TV program
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[n C] the box-shaped thing with a glass screen on which you watch programmes: a wide-screen TV I He was sitting on the floor in front of the television.
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You can say someone works in television (not 'in TV') when they have a job in the business of making or selling television programmes. Don't confuse on television (you watch a programme on television) and in television (-in the television business).
A Don't say 'see television'. Say watch television. But you can use see to talk about a particular programme in the past: Did you see 'Star Trek' last night?
Qtelly /-teli/ [n C/Ul british spokf.n informal the programmes that are broadcast on television or the box-shaped thing with a screen on which you watch programmes: We've just bought a new telly. watch telly You can watch telly after you've done your homework, on telly (=shown on television) fs there anything good on telly tonight?