What's the difference between caught and taught?

Caught


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Catch
  • () imp. & p. p. of Catch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Discovery of this vectorhost-parasite system in the Americas, and the localization of promastigote flagellates (leptomonads) in the hindgut of the vector, should assist in clarifying interpretative problems associated with infection of wild-caught flies in studies on leishmaniasis in the Americas and elsewhere.
  • (2) They took 15% in 2010, with the other parties caught in a scrappy three-way struggle in which the winning Lib Dems came in below 30%.
  • (3) In families with several cases, secondary cases (children infected in the home) had a relative mortality risk of 3.00 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.55-5.80) compared with index cases who caught infection from someone outside the home.
  • (4) Morel was arrested after his car was matched with one caught on camera fleeing the scene, and was involved in a hit-and-run with a cyclist 10 minutes after the shooting .
  • (5) They caught all three of them and then proceeded to let the two white lads go."
  • (6) sp., described from wild-caught and laboratory-reared females, males, nymphs, and larvae parasitizing the Humboldt Penguin, Spheniscus humboldti Meyen, is the fifth species of the Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) capensis group to be recognized in the Neotropical Region.
  • (7) We caught snatches of a conversation with Amy Childs, star of docusoap The Only Way is Essex.
  • (8) Had not Jaggers summoned me to see him on the day of my majority some years later, I might have wondered at the psychological implausibility of an old woman training a child to be a psychopath, but luckily I was so caught up by the possibility of my benefactor's name being revealed that the thought quite slipped my mind.
  • (9) By the end of the 2nd year the average rate of growth in height had practically caught up with the American standard.
  • (10) He wasn't the first to employ such scare tactics: in late October, the mayor of the Urals city of Izhevsk was caught on video telling veterans that their government allowances would be raised if United Russia received a high percentage of the vote.
  • (11) Replays cast doubt on the penalty decision, the ball having been touched by the Australian replacement scrum-half, Nick Phipps, before the referee, Craig Joubert, adjudged the Scottish prop Jon Welsh caught it while standing in an offside position.
  • (12) Endangered species should not be used in biomedical research and a continuing supply of wild-caught vulnerable species is also out of the question.
  • (13) It may have been like punk never ‘appened, but you caught a whiff of the movement’s scorched earth puritanism in the mocking disdain with which Smash Hits addressed rock-star hedonism.
  • (14) Rats were caught, and they and their fleas were identified.
  • (15) Forty-seven badgers were caught from the eight social groups.
  • (16) People need to be seen by a doctor if cancer is to be caught early”, said Dr Rosie Loftus, joint chief medical officer at Macmillan Cancer Support.
  • (17) Somebody rashly asked if he listened to the recently reprieved 6 Music – no – or even Radio 1, which he only caught, he said, when turning the dial between Radios 3 and 4.
  • (18) Morrissey has cancelled his entire US tour, citing a respiratory infection and 'acute fever ' he claims he caught from his support act, Kristeen Young.
  • (19) Attorneys for people caught on the US’s sprawling terrorism watchlists are expressing concern that the latest tactic by gun control advocates is blessing the legitimacy of a process they say threatens civil rights.
  • (20) He just never dreamed it would be life without parole.” Obama reduces sentences of 46 inmates convicted of nonviolent drug crimes Read more As his sister put it, Bennett “got caught up” in a five-man drug ring run by an old friend, John Hansley, to pay for his addiction to crack.

Taught


Definition:

  • (a.) See Taut.
  • () imp. & p. p. of Teach.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Teach

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
  • (2) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (3) However, patients can be taught how to retard the onset of wrinkles by avoiding unprotected sun exposure, unnecessary facial movements, and certain sleeping positions.
  • (4) Fifty-one severely retarded adults were taught a difficult visual discrimination in an assembly task by one of three training techniques: (a) adding and reducing large cue differences on the relevant-shape dimension; (b) adding and fading a redundant-color dimension; or (c) a combination of the two techniques.
  • (5) These observations indicated a novel mechanism that in the absence of light-dark schedule, mothers taught the circadian rhythm to the pups as they raised them.
  • (6) The panel stressed that students be taught strategies for obtaining the training necessary for postgraduate entry into a specialty area such as early intervention.
  • (7) Since 1930 Dr. Rakowiecki has started as self-taught astronomy studies becoming soon one of seven most eminent Polish astronomers.
  • (8) "The last 13 years, no, make that 30, had taught me not to hope," he said dryly.
  • (9) You say that she taught you not to feel frightened.
  • (10) "Whether Jain or Sikh or Buddhist or Sufi or Zoroastrian or Jewish or Muslim or Baptist or Hindu or Catholic or Baha'i or Animist or any other mainstream or minor religion or movement, we are taught as a tolerant society to accept a diversity of ideologies.
  • (11) "I don't want to get too bogged down in it, but the thing is, I haven't taught my son a fraction of what he's taught me.
  • (12) After this 6-month period, each child was taught self-hypnosis and used it for 3 months.
  • (13) Children are taught to use condoms there,” Pokrovsky said, indicating that was hardly imaginable in modern Russia where the Orthodox church is growing increasingly influential.
  • (14) I had jewellery, so I pawned all that, and I taught yoga – that paid the school fees.
  • (15) Thugs are distributing leaflets threatening to "wipe us out" and children in schools are being taught that the Rohingya are different.
  • (16) The CGRP-IR levels in the rostral (gustatory) part of the insular cortex were increased significantly by strongly aversive taste stimuli such as quinine hydrochloride and conditioned taste stimuli (NaCl and sucrose) which animals had been taught to avoid.
  • (17) Behavior management in pediatric dentistry is taught as a clinical science and few dentists learn the historical basis of the techniques in use today.
  • (18) Out of remaining single-honours courses, three-quarters of Italian degrees, two-thirds of German and half of French and Spanish studies degrees are taught at Russell Group universities.
  • (19) Two individuals with severe mental retardation, employed by a janitorial supply company, were taught to use self-instruction in combination with multiple exemplar training to solve work-related problems.
  • (20) Until now, there have few analyses of what is being taught about cancer at different medical schools.