Instruction
Instruction noun - A message describing how something is to be done.
Message and instruction are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Message" instead a noun "Instruction".
Message
Message noun - A piece of conveyed information.
Usage example: answered the phone and took a message
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Synonyms for Message
Instruction and message are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Instruction" instead a noun "Message".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- lesson and instruction
- lesson and message
- charge and instruction
- charge and message
- word and instruction
- word and message
- commission and instruction
- commission and message
- knowledge and instruction
- knowledge and message
- dispatch and instruction
- dispatch and message
- information and instruction
- information and message
How words are described
| clear | clear instruction | clear message |
| special | special instruction | special message |
| similar | similar instruction | similar message |
| short | short instruction | short message |
| Other adjectives: original, single, simple, real, cryptic, wrong, little, telepathic, private, personal, secret, moral, final, basic, last, written, coded, encoded. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- This trope is when a character sends another — usually an Unwitting Pawn — to deliver a message containing the single instruction to harm the person delivering the message.
Source: Please Shoot the Messenger - However, the main instances of corruption are performed by Mertle without any instruction from Lilo (or even informing Lilo until it's too late), making the message instead "don't give your subordinates any autonomy or they'll ruin things", the exact opposite of the intended message.
Source: Broken Aesop / Western Animation - Fake Defector: Sicinnus, who carried the false message to Xerxes at the instruction of Themistocles.
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