tutorial

[ too-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-, tyoo- ]

adjective

1. pertaining to or exercised by a tutor:

   tutorial functions or authority.

noun

1. a class in which a tutor gives intensive instruction in some subject to an individual student or a small group of students.
2. Computers.
   1. programmed instruction provided to a user at a computer terminal, often concerning the use of a particular software package and built into that package.
   2. a manual explaining how to use a particular software package or computer system.

tutorial

/ tjuːˈtɔːrɪəl /

noun

1. a period of intensive tuition given by a tutor to an individual student or to a small group of students

adjective

1. of or relating to a tutor

Other Words From

• nontu·tori·al adjective
• nontu·tori·al·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of tutorial¹

1735–45; < Latin tūtōri ( us ) of a guardian + -al ¹

Example Sentences

Gach, meanwhile, focuses on exercises and tutorials related to yoga, as well as tips for improving flexibility.

From Popular-Science

We at MarTech Today hope this series of live discussions, presentations, tutorials and meetups will help everyone stay sharp and up to date on tactics and best practices.

From Search Engine Land

Windheim found the open-source algorithm in a YouTube tutorial and ported it into a Google Colab notebook, a free service for running code in the cloud.

From MIT Technology Review

We at Search Engine Land hope this series of live discussions, presentations, tutorials and meetups will help everyone stay sharp and up to date on tactics and best practices.

From Search Engine Land

This technical SEO tutorial takes a step-by-step approach to create your free server logs dashboard using Elasticsearch.

From Search Engine Land

He also taught himself Photoshop through a tutorial, and became actively engaged in social networking in order to meet girls.

From The Daily Beast

Clinton offered a tutorial in how to sell a legislative package in simple terms.

From The Daily Beast

Ferguson has coated the aspirin, his financial tutorial, with applesauce.

From The Daily Beast

It was enough to make the deliberations now unfolding on Capitol Hill seem like a Miss Manners tutorial.

From The Daily Beast

And I understand that he has also taken his place among the regular subjects of the tutorial lectures.

From Project Gutenberg

Bernstein had written a crypto tutorial that contained computer code that could be used to make a cipher stronger than DES-56.

From Project Gutenberg

Let them, if possible, have the advantage of a regulated tutorial, as well as the ordinary professorial system.

From Project Gutenberg

He saw himself the founder of a new and higher school of journalism, thus satisfying his undying tutorial instincts.

From Project Gutenberg

The teaching by which he partly lived was of a kind quite unknown to the respectable tutorial world.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• guide