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    • lecture :a speech that is open to the public
      • he attended a lecture on telecommunications

    • lecture :deliver a lecture or talk
      • She will talk at Rutgers next week|Did you ever lecture at Harvard?

    • lecture :a lengthy rebuke
      • a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline|the teacher gave him a talking to

    • lecture :censure severely or angrily
      • 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

    • lecture :teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)

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