Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to tutors or a tutor.
  • noun Something that provides special, often individual instruction, especially.
  • noun A book or class that provides instruction in a particular area.
  • noun Computers A program that provides instruction for the use of a system or of software.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of, pertaining to, or exercised by a tutor or instructor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun 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.
  • noun (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.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.
  • noun A self-paced learning exercise; a lesson prepared so that a student can learn at their own speed, at their convenience.
  • noun Interactive class taught by a tutor to students at university or college, individually or in small groups.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a session of intensive tuition given by a tutor to an individual or to a small number of students
  • adjective of or relating to tutors or tutoring

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin tutorius, with -ial suffix.

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Examples

  • The tutorial is excellent and I recommend it for your edification.

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  • Â Determining proper position size, which was covered in an earlier trading tutorial, is also extremely important.

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  • I really hope you'll give it a try when the tutorial is done.

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  • The massage candle tutorial is totally done - in my head.

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  • If you missed how to make Jelly Rolls, the multiple part tutorial is located here.

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  • 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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  • 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.

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  • 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?

    January 19, 2009

  • 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.

    January 19, 2009