noun
a speech that is open to the public
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- he attended a lecture on telecommunications
noun
a lengthy rebuke
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- a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline
- the teacher gave him a talking to
noun
teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
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verb
deliver a lecture or talk
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- She will talk at Rutgers next week
- Did you ever lecture at Harvard?
verb
censure severely or angrily
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- 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