instructions
in-STRUK-shuhnz/ɪnˈstɹʌkʃənz/
- 1Plural of instruction.
The assembly instructions were missing from the package.
She wrote detailed instructions so the new hire could work alone.
Note
A plural that usually works as a set: the directions packed with a product, and the brief a client gives a lawyer, are both normally called instructions rather than an instruction. The teaching sense, instruction as an activity, has no plural. So instructions always means things given, whether orders, directions, or, in computing, the separate operations a processor carries out.
instructions is a form of instruction
instruction, noun: A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for people who use its product or service. Full entry
- Forms
- instructioninstructions plural
- Spelling
- instruction → instructions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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