Main entry: lecture, lecturing
Definition: teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
Main entry: speech, talking to, lecture
Definition: a lengthy rebuke
Usage: a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline; the teacher gave him a talking to
Main entry: lecture, talk, public lecture
Definition: a speech that is open to the public
Usage: he attended a lecture on telecommunications
Main entry: call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, rag, rebuke, scold, dress down, take to task, trounce, have words, lambast, lambaste, lecture, jaw, berate, bawl out
Definition: censure severely or angrily
Usage: 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
Definition: deliver a lecture or talk
Usage: She will talk at Rutgers next week; Did you ever lecture at Harvard?