1.  teacher(n = noun.person) instructor - a person whose occupation is teaching;
is a kind of educator, pedagog, pedagogue
is a member of teacher-student relation
has particulars: art teacher, bahai, catechist, coach, private instructor, tutor, dance master, dancing-master, demonstrator, docent, english professor, english teacher, french teacher, governess, instructress, math teacher, mathematics teacher, missionary, music teacher, don, preceptor, reading teacher, riding master, school teacher, schoolteacher, science teacher, section man, teaching fellow
Derived forms verb teach₂, verb teach₁, noun teachership₁

2.  teacher(n = noun.cognition) - a personified abstraction that teaches; "books were his teachers"; "experience is a demanding teacher"
is a kind of abstract, abstraction
Derived forms verb teach₂, verb teach₁

1.  One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. [1913 Webster]

2.  One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination. [1913 Webster]
"The teachers in all the churches assembled." [1913 Webster]

teacher, n. a person who teaches, esp. in a school.

Derivative:
teacherly adj.

N  advice, counsel, adhortation, word to the wise, suggestion, submonition, recommendation, advocacy, advisement, exhortation, expostulation, admonition, guidance, instruction, charge, injunction, obtestation, Governor's message, President's message, King's message, Queen's speech, message, speech from the throne, adviser, prompter, counsel, counselor, monitor, mentor, Nestor, magnus Apollo, senator, teacher, guide, manual, chart, physician, doctor, leech, archiater, arbiter, reference, referment, consultation, conference, pourparler, recommendatory, hortative, dehortatory, admonitory, Int, go to!, give every man thine ear but few thy voice, I pray thee cease thy counsel, my guide, philosopher, and friend, 'twas good advice and meant, my son be good, verbum sat sapienti, a word to the wise is sufficient, vive memor leti, we, ask advice but we mean approbation.

N  teacher, trainer, instructor, institutor, master, tutor, director, Corypheus, dry nurse, coach, grinder, crammer, don, governor, bear leader, governess, duenna, disciplinarian, professor, lecturer, reader, prelector, prolocutor, preacher, chalk talker, khoja, pastor, schoolmaster, dominie, usher, pedagogue, abecedarian, schoolmistress, dame, monitor, pupil teacher, expositor, preceptor, guide, guru, mentor, pioneer, apostle, missionary, propagandist, munshi, example, professorship, tutelage, professorial, qui doet discet.

art teacher, english teacher, french teacher, geometry teacher, head teacher, math teacher, mathematics teacher, music teacher, piano teacher, practice teacher, reading teacher, school teacher, science teacher, student teacher

1.  pet(n = noun.animal) - a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement;
is a kind of animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna

2.  pet(n = noun.person) darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite - a special loved one;
is a kind of lover
has particulars: chosen, macushla, mollycoddle, teacher's pet
Derived forms verb pet₂, verb pet₁

3.  pet(n = noun.feeling) - a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight);
is a kind of choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness, petulance

4.  pet(n = noun.act) positron emission tomography - using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain);
is a kind of imaging, tomography

1.  pet(v = verb.contact) - stroke or caress gently; "pet the lamb"
is one way to caress, fondle
Derived form noun pet₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s somebody

2.  pet(v = verb.contact) - stroke or caress in an erotic manner, as during lovemaking;
is one way to caress, fondle
Derived forms noun pet₂, noun petter₁, noun petting₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s somebody

   pet(s = adj.all) best-loved, favored, favorite, favourite, preferent, preferred - preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child"

1.  A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand. [1913 Webster]

2.  Any person especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child. [1913 Webster]
"The love of cronies, pets, and favorites." [1913 Webster]

3.  A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

4.  Any animal kept as a companion, usually in or around one's home, typically domesticated and cared for attentively and often affectionately. Distinguished from animals raised for food or to perform useful tasks, as a draft animal. [PJC]

   Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory; a pet animal. [1913 Webster]
"Some young lady's pet curate." [1913 Webster]

   To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled. [1913 Webster]

   To be a pet. Feltham. [1913 Webster]

pet, n., adj., & v.
--n.
1 a domestic or tamed animal kept for pleasure or companionship.
2 a darling, a favourite (often as a term of endearment).
--attrib.adj.
1 kept as a pet (pet lamb).
2 of or for pet animals (pet food).
3 often joc. favourite or particular (pet aversion).
4 expressing fondness or familiarity (pet name).
--v.tr. (petted, petting)
1 treat as a pet.
2 (also absol.) fondle, esp. erotically.

Derivative:
petter n.

pet, n. a feeling of petty resentment or ill-humour (esp. be in a pet).

Etymology:
16th c.: orig. unkn.

VB  love, like, affect, fancy, care for, take an interest in, be partial to, sympathize with, affection, be in love with, have a love, for, entertain a love, for, harbor cherish a love, for, regard, revere, take to, bear love to, be wedded to, set one's affections on, make much of, feast one's eyes on, hold dear, prize, hug, cling to, cherish, pet, burn, adore, idolize, love to distraction, aimer eperdument, dote on, dote upon, take a fancy to, look sweet upon, become enamored, fall in love with, lose one's heart, desire, excite love, win the heart, gain the heart, win the affections, gain the affections, secure the love, engage the affections, take the fancy of have a place in the heart, wind round the heart, attract, attach, endear, charm, fascinate, captivate, bewitch, seduce, enamor, enrapture, turn the head, get into favor, ingratiate oneself, insinuate oneself, worm oneself, propitiate, curry favor with, pay one's court to, faire l'aimable, set one's cap at, flirt.

N  love, fondness, liking, inclination, regard, dilection, admiration, fancy, affection, sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, heart, brotherly love, benevolence, attachment, yearning, eros, tender passion, amour, gyneolatry, gallantry, passion, flame, devotion, fervor, enthusiasm, transport of love, rapture, enchantment, infatuation, adoration, idolatry, Cupid, Venus, myrtle, true lover's knot, love token, love suit, love affair, love tale, love story, the, old story, plighted love, courtship, amourette, free love, maternal love, storge, parental love, young love, puppy love, attractiveness, popularity, favorite, lover, suitor, follower, admirer, adorer, wooer, amoret, beau, sweetheart, inamorato, swain, young man, flame, love, truelove, leman, Lothario, gallant, paramour, amoroso, cavaliere servente, captive, cicisbeo, caro sposo, inamorata, ladylove, idol, darling, duck, Dulcinea, angel, goddess, cara sposa, betrothed, affianced, fiancee, flirt, coquette, amorette, pair of turtledoves, abode of love, agapemone, loving, fond of, taken with, struck with, smitten, bitten, attached to, wedded to, enamored, charmed, in love, love-sick, over head and ears in love, head over heels in love, affectionate, tender, sweet upon, sympathetic, loving, amorous, amatory, fond, erotic, uxorious, ardent, passionate, rapturous, devoted, motherly, loved, beloved well beloved, dearly beloved, dear, precious, darling, pet, little, favorite, popular, congenial, after one's mind, after one's taste, after one's fancy, after one's own heart, to one's mind, to one's taste, to one's fancy, to one's own heart, in one's good graces, dear as the apple of one's eye, nearest to one's heart, lovable, adorable, lovely, sweet, attractive, seductive, winning, charming, engaging, interesting, enchanting, captivating, fascinating, bewitching, amiable, like an angel, amantes amentes, credula res amor est, militat omnis amasius, love conquers all, omnia vincit amor, si vis amari ama, the sweetest joy, the wildest woe.

N  favorite, pet, cosset, minion, idol, jewel, spoiled child, enfant gat_e, led captain, crony, fondling, apple of one's eye, man after one's own heart, persona grata, love dear, darling, duck, duckey, honey, sugar, jewel, mopsey, moppet, princess, sweetheart, sweetie, teacher's pet, general favorite, universal favorite, idol of the people.

N  resentment, displeasure, animosity, anger, wrath, indignation, exasperation, bitter resentment, wrathful indignation, pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity, virulence, bitterness, acrimony, asperity, spleen, gall, heart-burning, heart-swelling, rankling, ill humor, bad humor, ill temper, bad temper, irascibility, ill blood, revenge, excitement, irritation, warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker, dander, ferment, ebullition, towering passion, acharnement, angry mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums, burst, explosion, paroxysm, storm, rage, fury, desperation, violence, fire and fury, vials of wrath, gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words, scowl, sulks, affront, provocation, offense, indignity, grudge, crow to pluck, bone to pick, sore subject, casus belli, ill turn, outrage, Furies, Eumenides, buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the knuckles, angry, wrath, irate, ireful, wrathful, cross, Achillean, sulky, bitter, virulent, acrimonious &c (discourteous), violent, warm, burning, boiling, boiling over, fuming, raging, foaming, foaming at the mouth, convulsed with rage, offended, waxy, acharne, wrought, worked up, indignant, hurt, sore, set against, fierce, wild, rageful, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage, relentless, flushed with anger, flushed with rage, in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way, on one's high ropes, up in arms, in high dudgeon, angrily, in the height of passion, in the heat of passion, in the heat of the moment, Int, tantaene animis coelestibus irae!, marry come up!, zounds!, 'sdeath!, one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up, fervens difficili bile jecur, the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire, the blood rising, the blood boiling, haeret lateri lethalis arundo, beware the fury of a patient man, furor arma ministrat, ira furor brevis est, quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius, What, drunk with choler?.

VB  caress, fondle, pet, dandle, pat, pat on the head, pat on the cheek, chuck under the chin, smile upon, coax, wheedle, cosset, coddle, cocker, cockle, make of, make much of, cherish, foster, kill with kindness, clasp, hug, cuddle, fold in one's arms, strain in one's arms, nestle, nuzzle, embrace, kiss, buss, smack, blow a kiss, salute, fold to the heart, press to the bosom, bill and coo, spoon, toy, dally, flirt, coquet, gallivant, galavant, philander, make love, pay one's court to, pay one's addresses to, pay one's attentions to, serenade, court, woo, set one's cap at, be sweet upon, look sweet upon, ogle, cast sheep's eyes upon, faire les yeux doux, fall in love with, win the affections, die for, propose, make an offer, have an offer, pop the question, plight one's troth, plight one's faith.

VB  flatter, praise to the skies, puff, wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax, fawn upon, faun upon, humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter, jolly, bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver, lay it on thick, overpraise, earwig, cog, collogue, truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to, court, creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of, fool to the top of one's bent, lick the dust, lay the flattering unction to one's soul, gild the pill, make things pleasant, overestimate, exaggerate.

pet food, pet name, pet peeve, pet scanner, pet shop, pet sitter, pet sitting, teacher's pet