nnoun.communicationa speech that is open to the publicSynset:public lecture talk
Examples:- he attended a lecture on telecommunications
Derivationally Related Form:lectureshiplecturetalk
Hypernyms:address speech
Inherited Hypernyms:lectureaddressspeech actacteventpsychological featureabstractionentity
nnoun.communicationa lengthy rebukeSynset:speech talking to
Examples:- a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline
- the teacher gave him a talking to
Derivationally Related Form:lecturespeechify
Hypernyms:rebuke reprehension reprimand reproof reproval
Inherited Hypernyms:lecturerebukecriticismdisapprovalmessagecommunicationabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:curtain lecturepreachingsermon
Full Hyponyms:curtain lecturesermon
nnoun.actteaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)Synset:lecturing
Derivationally Related Form:lectureshiplecture
Part Holonyms:class course course of instruction course of study
Hypernyms:instruction pedagogy teaching
Inherited Hypernyms:lectureteachingeducationprofessionoccupationactivityacteventpsychological featureabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:talk
Part Meronyms:lecture demonstration
Full Hyponyms:chalk talktalk
vverb.communicationdeliver a lecture or talkSynset:talk
Examples:- She will talk at Rutgers next week
- Did you ever lecture at Harvard?
Derivationally Related Form:talklecturetalkerlecturer
Hypernyms:instruct learn teach
Inherited Hypernyms:lectureteachinformcommunicateinteractact
Direct Hyponyms:preachprophesy
Full Troponyms:evangelizepreach
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s | Something ---s to somebody | Somebody ---s on something | Sam and Sue --- (apply to: talk, lecture)
vverb.communicationcensure severely or angrilySynset:bawl out berate call down call on the carpet chew out chew up chide dress down have words jaw lambast lambaste rag rebuke remonstrate reprimand scold take to task trounce
Examples:- The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
- The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
- The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
Derivationally Related Form:rebukerchidingreprimandscoldingrebukelecturescolder
Hypernyms:criticise criticize knock pick apart
Inherited Hypernyms:call on the carpetknockcommentnotestateexpress
Direct Hyponyms:brush downcastigatechastenchastisecorrectobjurgatetell off
Full Troponyms:chastiseflametell off
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | Somebody ---s PP (apply to: remonstrate, jaw, have words) | Sam cannot --- Sue (apply to: bawl out, chew up, chew out, scold, lambast, dress down, rag, rebuke, lambaste, berate)