0 something that someone tells you to do: --
1 advice and information about how to do or use something, often written in a book or on the side of a container: --
2 the act of teaching someone how to do something: --
The course gives you basic instruction in car maintenance and repairs.
3 an order to do something, esp. a formal order: --
[ + to infinitive ] The general received instructions to return to the base.
4 written advice and information about how to do or use something: --
5 something that someone tells you to do: --
disregard/ignore (sb's) instructions I ignored the instructions I had been given and went ahead with the deal anyway.
act on/carry out/follow (sb's) instructions The shares allow him to force the board to carry out his instructions.
give sb instructions to do sth She gave me instructions not to contact the customer directly.
give sb instructions on sth My boss gave me instructions on what to say to the press.
It was a confusing instruction, and I wasn't sure what he wanted me to do.
They were given instructions and practice in the memory task, and no mention was made of there being any subsequent test of grammar learning.
The instrumentalists are assigned significant roles, but the key protagonist is the female singer, who has to observe more than 20 instructions involving 'advanced' techniques.
No longer directly concerned with transfer of genetic instructions, information appears as a library of ready-to-serve lymphocytes.
Furthermore, verbal user instructions describing the interaction request are necessary.
Margins should be wider than usual to allow space for instructions to the typesetter.
As in all cases of this type, the jury instructions provided the ground for arguments on appeal.
The next most common response, restatement, did not explain why a child created a particular picture but merely repeated the instructions.
Thus, the instructions are type checked assuming that the type variables in are abstract.
