(n.) The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.
(n.) A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes, a familiar discourse, in contrast with a sermon.
(n.) A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority.
(n.) A rehearsal of a lesson.
(v. t.) To read or deliver a lecture to.
(v. t.) To reprove formally and with authority.
(v. i.) To deliver a lecture or lectures.
Example Sentences:
(1) The control group received the same information in lecture form.
(2) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
(3) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
(4) You can get a five-month-old to eat almost anything,” says Clare Llewellyn, lecturer in behavioural obesity research at University College London.
(5) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.
(6) The authors discuss the appropriateness of teaching clinical pharmacology (CP) to fourth-year students, lectures in CP to fourth-, fifth- and sixth-year students in accordance with the study of the main clinical specialties (therapy, surgery, pediatrics, etc.
(7) The lecture remains the dominant form of instructional method.
(8) Mark Hellowell, lecturer in global health policy at Edinburgh University and an adviser to the Treasury select committee inquiry into PFIs, said: "There are some really significant risks to affordability here."
(9) Authors have previously published April 1988 a lecture where they criticize the bad denomination "passed coma" full of ambiguity for public mind, to which "brain death" ought to be preferred.
(10) The "fly on the wall" stuff is no more for the moment but, Andy, grab the opportunities when you can – a few years down the line when Cameron is on the lecture circuit and the rest of us are hanging up our cameras for good, you should have an unprecedented photographic record of a seat of power.
(11) Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures.
(12) The Tony Abbott lecturing the American president on taxation fairness is, of course, the one who as Australian prime minister is presiding over policies of taxation amnesty for the richest Australians who have themselves offshored their hidden wealth, capping their taxable liability to merely the last four years.
(13) An English translation of the lecture is printed below.
(14) "I'm not here to lecture individuals about their private lives," he said.
(15) It was hypothesized that students receiving instruction via lectures and handouts would score significantly higher than students who only received handouts.
(16) Who better to lecture Muslims than Islam expert Donald Trump?
(17) The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of guided design and lecture teaching strategies on the clinical problem-solving performance of first quarter student nurses.
(18) You've read the book, now hear the lecture and watch the movie.
(19) It is difficult to accept lectures on outsourcing from the party that introduced the North American Free Trade Agreement – an outsourcers' charter liberalising trade between the US, Mexico and Canada.
(20) Subsequent to the questionnaire the PCCU liaison pharmacist implemented a visual display of monthly drug costs, an education program that included the presentation of questionnaire results, and drug information lectures discussing controversial therapeutic issues.
Lyceum
Definition:
(n.) A place of exercise with covered walks, in the suburbs of Athens, where Aristotle taught philosophy.
(n.) A house or apartment appropriated to instruction by lectures or disquisitions.
(n.) A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university.
(n.) An association for debate and literary improvement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Royal Lyceum (0131-473 2000), 21 August to 3 September.
(2) Just as Mary was partly motivated by Byron and her husband, the poet Shelley, so Bram Stoker, the business manager for the Lyceum theatre, was inspired by his devoted service to the great Shakespearean actor Henry Irving.
(3) During the long interview process to take over the running of the Crucible from Sam West, who had departed just before the theatre closed for renovation in 2007, it was made clear that acting was a part of the gig, along with directing and overseeing the various theatres including the Crucible main stage, the studio and the Lyceum, which plays host to touring productions.
(4) She said: “We aim to provide the best care possible and we continually review our procedures to ensure that the care we give meets the high standards we set ourselves.” Meanwhile, the firm Carewatch has built up a pot of £17.1m in interest on shareholder loans which could in future be paid through an offshore financing scheme to investment fund Lyceum Capital, where the chairman of the supervisory board is former Lehman Brothers banker and Tory donor Philip Buscombe.
(5) This will be followed by a run of shows – at London's Barbican, Sheffield Lyceum, Birmingham St Paul's and Salford Lowry – that will see him perform with various other singers The 8th , his eight-chapter narrative pop song about the seven deadly sins.
(6) He makes his apologies and strides off towards the Lyceum.
(7) Traverse at Lyceum Rehearsal Room (0131-228 1404), 3-14 August.
(8) The jury was still out, though: in London that summer I saw him play the same set at a half-full Lyceum show, and wondered if people would ever “get” him or if he was doomed to be a passing novelty fad.
(9) In the next two years he completed a draft, later expanded, of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, based on a canoe trip he and his brother John had taken in 1839, as well as composing the first draft of Walden and a long essay on Thomas Carlyle, part of which he gave as a lecture at the Concord Lyceum in 1846.
(10) Seated cross-legged on the floor of the rehearsal room under the glass and steel rafters of the Sheffield Lyceum, face fixed in an impish grin as the rest of the cast circulates about him singing about the girls they could fix him up with, he looks still, watchful.
(11) It faces Tudor Square, which is also home to the city’s two theatres, the Crucible and the Lyceum, and the Millennium Galleries.
(12) Although present, the differences between the LAHT and BAHT prevalence in the gymnasiums (4.3% and 5.4%) and lyceums (5.5% and 6.4%) are not significant and might be functions of: age, sex, psychomotor development, structure of the respective collectivities, the momentary psychoemotional reactions, lability of the blood pressure, specific to the childhood, several screening difficulties etc.
(13) In 1977 she was back in the theatre as Madame Ranevskaya, in The Cherry Orchard at the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh, and a year later was Judith Bliss in Hay Fever.