Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to tutors or a tutor.
- n. Something that provides special, often individual instruction, especially:
- n. A book or class that provides instruction in a particular area.
- n. Computer Science A program that provides instruction for the use of a system or of software.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of, pertaining to, or exercised by a tutor or instructor.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.
- n. A self-paced learning exercise; a lesson prepared so that a student can learn at their own speed, at their convenience.
- n. Interactive class taught by a tutor to students at university or college, individually or in small groups.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.
- n. A class{6} or short series of classes in which one or more instructors provide intensive instruction on some subject to a small group. Such short courses of instruction may be held at an institution of learning, or in any other place where a small group may desire a brief but thorough introduction to a topic.
- n. (Computers) A set of instructions on how to use a particular computer program, built into the software package itself, displayed on the computer screen, and organized in a stepwise manner so as to familiarize a new user with all of or the most important features of the program.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a session of intensive tuition given by a tutor to an individual or to a small number of students
- adj. of or relating to tutors or tutoring
Etymologies
- From Latin tutorius, with -ial suffix. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The tutorial is excellent and I recommend it for your edification.”
“Â Determining proper position size, which was covered in an earlier trading tutorial, is also extremely important.”
“If you missed how to make Jelly Rolls, the multiple part tutorial is located here.”
“I really hope you'll give it a try when the tutorial is done.”
“The massage candle tutorial is totally done - in my head.”
“The tutorial is free to use, and aims to help students develop Internet research skills to help with university courses in Geography.”
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“I'm watching the 15-min tutorial - looks pretty impressive.”
“Bearing the importance of a common meeting ground in mind, I have decided that the tutorial is to be devoted to the close reading of a poem, that it should be in other words an opportunity for the students to encounter the poem itself (as opposed to critical writings about the poem).”
“I openly sympathise and defend my handful of Muslim students who silently fume during their observance of Ramadan, when they're faced with end-of-term tutorial parties with snacks like ham-laden pizzas.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tutorial’.
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Words related to knowledge
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Johnnie words
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Meta
Because in this crazy place, technical feedback on site bugs goes on the page for the word 'bugs'. See also Meta Squared, plethora's list of meta lists.
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for tutorial.
vanishedone There have been suggestions along these lines before (see tagging tutorial), but thus far FAQ is the most we've come up with. A tutorial would be good provided it's easy for newcomers to find: maybe a landing page for new accounts.
Edit: see also the Wordie for Dummies list. Jan 19, 2009
rolig Would a Wordie "Tutorial" page be a good idea to supplement the faq page? Some people seem to be finding it hard to figure out Wordie, probably because it is so unexpectedly simple. A few pointers might be in order. I seem to recall that when I started on Wordie, there was such a page, wasn't there? Jan 19, 2009