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• n  a speech that is open to the public
  he attended a lecture on telecommunications
• n  a lengthy rebuke
  a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline
• n  teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
• v  deliver a lecture or talk
  Did you ever lecture at Harvard?
• v  censure severely or angrily

• Eyewitness: All it took was six minutes for a college lecture course to become a killing field.
• University of Illinois AP Santos, 20, was sitting on Row 7 of the Cole Hall lecture room at Northern Illinois University, not far from his girlfriend of five months, Monique .
• And thanks to YouTube, his lecture doesn't require any tuition checks.

• public lecture
• talk
• speech
• talking to
• lecturing
• call on the carpet
• take to task
• rebuke
• rag
• trounce
• reproof
• reprimand
• jaw
• dress down
• call down
• scold
• chide
• berate
• bawl out
• remonstrate
• chew out
• chew up
• have words
• lambaste
• lambast

News & Articles

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• Ramage Museum hosts lecture series
  The James A. Ramage Civil War Museum Summer Lecture Series will continue at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 23, at the museum, 1402 Highland Ave.
  June 17, 2013 - The Cincinnati Enquirer
• Make room for mushrooms with grow-at-home kits
  BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — College students Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora were just a few months short of careers in corporate banking when they learned in a class lecture that it was possible to grow gourmet mushrooms on leftover coffee grounds.
  June 17, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Award-winning quilter to lecture at festival
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Anita Shackelford, a nationally recognized quilting teacher and judge, will provide a lecture and trunk show of quilts at the 2013 West Virginia Quilt Festival, June 20-22 at the Summersville Arena and Conference Center. The festiva...
  June 16, 2013 - The Charleston Gazette

Quotes

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• Bob Crow in The Guardian
  The leftwing union leader said: "This government are launching the biggest attack on the trade union movement since Margaret Thatcher set out to break the National Union of Mineworkers and the idea that we should sit there and take a lecture on...
• Condoleezza Rice in Reuters Canada
  I didn't lecture him, he didn't lecture me,said Rice.