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Definition of learn in English: learnverblearned, learnt ləːnlərn [with object]1Gain or acquire knowledge of or skill in (something) by study, experience, or being taught. they'd started learning French with infinitive she is learning to play the piano no object we learn from experience Example sentencesExamples - I can't find a moral in the story, or a worth-while lesson to be learned of it.
- One way to tell a young soul from an old soul is to observe how quickly he learns karma's lessons in life.
- You would think, after the first 11 years, that the wise guys might have learned their lesson and moved their operations somewhere else.
- She was learning American thought and culture without any criticism.
- And rather than trust the author to go on developing and learning her trade, they dumped her.
- He adds that he is no longer a dreadful student, has letters after his name, and has learnt a useful lesson from his North Sea mishap.
- A child is learning unbelievable amounts of information.
- Their author has evolved into a prose sophisticate, and clearly learnt some important lessons along the way.
- Here, a group of children are busy learning the basics of education these days through a theatre workshop.
- He had grown his intellectual ego, by learning the art of retrospection and sober second thought.
- Neither does one want to waste time learning skills and information which will soon be as useless as hats for silt.
- On board were up to 130 cadets getting a general education as well as learning seamanship from the 20 staff.
- For him, the key to settling successfully in a foreign culture is not just learning the language.
- Attitudes are learnt through observation of those in relative power or seniority.
- The gifted apprentice attaches himself early to a wise teacher, learning the craft at his hands, six or eight hours a day, every day of the week.
- He also observed the students learning an aversion to investigating patients' social and psychological problems.
- Ormond Square was my first training ground, where I learnt my craft and developed a love for the beautiful game that I still have.
- You mentioned that you could not be aware while learning a foreign language.
- Everyone gets more or less that same elementary education, learning basic history and to read and to do basic math.
- One now asks whether cultural codes are learned in some language-like way.
Synonyms acquire a knowledge of, gain an understanding of, acquire skill in, become competent in, become proficient in, grasp, master, take in, absorb, assimilate, pick up, digest, familiarize oneself with become expert in, know inside out, know backwards, comprehend study, read up on, work at, apply oneself to, be taught, have lessons in, pursue informal get the hang of, get clued up about, get the point of - 1.1 Commit to memory.
I'd learned too many grim poems in school Example sentencesExamples - There is likely to be a real zest for learning facts and information.
- Just wait and see how mobiles companies will try to make us learn a numeric user name rather than an alphabetic one.
- Name by name, she learned them so that she could remember them later on when riding.
- Previous studies of bilingual memory have primarily used word lists as materials to be learned.
- We learned a large amount of information and did a mock theory test which has prepared us all for our theory test to get our provisional licences.
- Many of the chants and songs I learned are soon to fade from campus memory.
- Your mind may contain stores of knowledge because you learn rapidly, and you retain what has been learned.
- He learns bucket-loads of information, including the brazenly anti-union pitches made by the various nations.
- There is no information about where Ellen learned her tales or from whom.
- It seems college instruction has moved or is moving back to memorization and rote learning.
- You try to concentrate on learning pertinent facts and are aware that what is now in vogue will eventually become dated.
- Well, I think part of the problem is that the students are not learning and retaining the material.
- I haven't, for instance, recommended memorising great swathes of sporting statistics, or learning the eight times tables.
Synonyms memorize, learn by heart, learn by rote, commit to memory, become word-perfect in, learn word for word, learn parrot-fashion, get off/down pat, have off/down pat, know, retain informal get off by heart archaic con - 1.2 Become aware of (something) by information or from observation.
with clause I learned that they had eaten already no object the trading standards office learned of the illegal network Example sentencesExamples - More can be learned of the conditions of prisoners in New Jersey than in either Connecticut or New York.
- I was unaware of the seriousness of her illness until I learned of her death.
- He learns that three other names have been suggested to go.
- Despite Lynn being in Honors, she was a big slacker and the teacher had learned this bit of information a long time ago.
- Being younger than her I learned loads of things by simple observation.
- I first learned of this incident more than 20 years ago.
- Their grandfather had come to rescue them when he learned of their existence.
- She was in her early fifties and her death was learned of with great regret by all who knew her during her short stay.
- He said he was shocked beyond belief when he learned that literacy students were having their course cut.
- Her family was not consulted, and only learned of her death a month later.
- She sighed when she thought about all the information that she had learned that night.
- The Leader of the House is saying that the Minister did not have enough time to discover on what date he learnt a piece of information.
- As usual there was a small turn out for the meeting but those who did attend learned a great deal of new information.
- We first learned of its existence when she was eight years old and began having vision problems.
- He learns his birth name as a teenager, but nothing more, and it is evident that this void has created a corresponding void in his soul.
- Those were the same words a second-in-command had said when learning Jasmine's name three long years ago.
- It is from him that I learned that liberation movements, revolution, terrorism live in a world of their own and create their own etymology.
- He said he deleted the names when he learned the report would be made public, as he only had one witness.
- She only learned of her death when she returned for a home visit last week.
- His passing last week was learned of with very deep and genuine regret within this community.
Synonyms discover, find out, become aware, be made aware, be informed, have it brought to one's attention, hear, be given to understand, get to know, come to know, hear tell gather, understand, ascertain, establish, realize, determine informal get wind of the fact, get wise to the fact British informal suss out North American informal dope out
2archaic, informal Teach (someone) ‘That'll learn you,’ he chuckled with object and infinitive we'll have to learn you to milk cows Example sentencesExamples - So the help you got has learned you to have faith in yourself.
Usage In modern standard English it is wrong to use learn to mean teach, as in that'll learn you (correct use is that'll teach you). This meaning has been recorded since the 13th century and has been used by writers such as Spenser, Bunyan, and Samuel Johnson, but it fell into disfavour in the early 19th century and is now found only in non-standard and dialect use Derivatives noun ləːnəˈbɪlɪti One useful tool for learnability is ‘intuitiveness’. Example sentencesExamples - In this paper, it is demonstrated, via a counterexample, that E-stability generally does not imply learnability of rational expectations equilibria.
- We explore the learnability of concepts from samples using the paradigm of sample compression schemes.
- I believe learnability is a very important factor of rhythm games.
- In contrast to ‘facility,’ (the other half of usability), learnability is almost always visual.
adjective Instead, leadership is a measurable, learnable and teachable set of behaviors that can be improved if the desire, awareness and competence are present. Example sentencesExamples - In this session you'll learn about how to design applications that are learnable, what help and documentation options work, and how to effectively integrate them.
- In proving these learnable results, crucial use is made of a theorem on the concept known as finite elasticity.
- The characterization identifies models that are definitely learnable and definitely unlearnable by the entire class of algorithms.
- The positive conclusion of this paper is that there are specific classes of concepts that are learnable in polynomial time using learning protocols of the kind described above.
Origin Old English leornian 'learn' (in Middle English also 'teach'), of West Germanic origin; related to German lernen, also to lore1. Rhymes adjourn, astern, Berne, burn, churn, concern, discern, earn, fern, fohn, kern, Lucerne, quern, Sauternes, spurn, stern, Sterne, tern, terne, Traherne, turn, urn, Verne, yearn Definition of learn in US English: learnverblərnlərn [with object]1Gain or acquire knowledge of or skill in (something) by study, experience, or being taught. they'd started learning French with infinitive she is learning to play the piano no object we learn from experience Example sentencesExamples - Everyone gets more or less that same elementary education, learning basic history and to read and to do basic math.
- One now asks whether cultural codes are learned in some language-like way.
- One way to tell a young soul from an old soul is to observe how quickly he learns karma's lessons in life.
- Ormond Square was my first training ground, where I learnt my craft and developed a love for the beautiful game that I still have.
- Neither does one want to waste time learning skills and information which will soon be as useless as hats for silt.
- Attitudes are learnt through observation of those in relative power or seniority.
- For him, the key to settling successfully in a foreign culture is not just learning the language.
- She was learning American thought and culture without any criticism.
- A child is learning unbelievable amounts of information.
- He had grown his intellectual ego, by learning the art of retrospection and sober second thought.
- On board were up to 130 cadets getting a general education as well as learning seamanship from the 20 staff.
- And rather than trust the author to go on developing and learning her trade, they dumped her.
- You would think, after the first 11 years, that the wise guys might have learned their lesson and moved their operations somewhere else.
- I can't find a moral in the story, or a worth-while lesson to be learned of it.
- Here, a group of children are busy learning the basics of education these days through a theatre workshop.
- Their author has evolved into a prose sophisticate, and clearly learnt some important lessons along the way.
- The gifted apprentice attaches himself early to a wise teacher, learning the craft at his hands, six or eight hours a day, every day of the week.
- He adds that he is no longer a dreadful student, has letters after his name, and has learnt a useful lesson from his North Sea mishap.
- He also observed the students learning an aversion to investigating patients' social and psychological problems.
- You mentioned that you could not be aware while learning a foreign language.
Synonyms acquire a knowledge of, gain an understanding of, acquire skill in, become competent in, become proficient in, grasp, master, take in, absorb, assimilate, pick up, digest, familiarize oneself with - 1.1 Commit to memory.
I'd learned too many grim poems in school Example sentencesExamples - Your mind may contain stores of knowledge because you learn rapidly, and you retain what has been learned.
- You try to concentrate on learning pertinent facts and are aware that what is now in vogue will eventually become dated.
- Just wait and see how mobiles companies will try to make us learn a numeric user name rather than an alphabetic one.
- He learns bucket-loads of information, including the brazenly anti-union pitches made by the various nations.
- Previous studies of bilingual memory have primarily used word lists as materials to be learned.
- There is no information about where Ellen learned her tales or from whom.
- Name by name, she learned them so that she could remember them later on when riding.
- Well, I think part of the problem is that the students are not learning and retaining the material.
- Many of the chants and songs I learned are soon to fade from campus memory.
- There is likely to be a real zest for learning facts and information.
- It seems college instruction has moved or is moving back to memorization and rote learning.
- We learned a large amount of information and did a mock theory test which has prepared us all for our theory test to get our provisional licences.
- I haven't, for instance, recommended memorising great swathes of sporting statistics, or learning the eight times tables.
Synonyms memorize, learn by heart, learn by rote, commit to memory, become word-perfect in, learn word for word, learn parrot-fashion, get down pat, get off pat, have down pat, have off pat, know, retain - 1.2 Become aware of (something) by information or from observation.
with clause I learned that they had eaten already no object the military learned of a plot to attack the presidential compound Example sentencesExamples - He learns his birth name as a teenager, but nothing more, and it is evident that this void has created a corresponding void in his soul.
- She sighed when she thought about all the information that she had learned that night.
- As usual there was a small turn out for the meeting but those who did attend learned a great deal of new information.
- He learns that three other names have been suggested to go.
- It is from him that I learned that liberation movements, revolution, terrorism live in a world of their own and create their own etymology.
- Being younger than her I learned loads of things by simple observation.
- More can be learned of the conditions of prisoners in New Jersey than in either Connecticut or New York.
- The Leader of the House is saying that the Minister did not have enough time to discover on what date he learnt a piece of information.
- He said he was shocked beyond belief when he learned that literacy students were having their course cut.
- Despite Lynn being in Honors, she was a big slacker and the teacher had learned this bit of information a long time ago.
- He said he deleted the names when he learned the report would be made public, as he only had one witness.
- Her family was not consulted, and only learned of her death a month later.
- She only learned of her death when she returned for a home visit last week.
- His passing last week was learned of with very deep and genuine regret within this community.
- Those were the same words a second-in-command had said when learning Jasmine's name three long years ago.
- She was in her early fifties and her death was learned of with great regret by all who knew her during her short stay.
- I was unaware of the seriousness of her illness until I learned of her death.
- We first learned of its existence when she was eight years old and began having vision problems.
- Their grandfather had come to rescue them when he learned of their existence.
- I first learned of this incident more than 20 years ago.
Synonyms discover, find out, become aware, be made aware, be informed, have it brought to one's attention, hear, be given to understand, get to know, come to know, hear tell
2informal, archaic Teach (someone) “That'll learn you,” he chuckled with object and infinitive we'll have to learn you to milk cows Example sentencesExamples - So the help you got has learned you to have faith in yourself.
Usage In modern standard English, it is wrong to use learn to mean teach, as in that'll learn you (correct use is that'll teach you). This meaning has been recorded since the 13th century and has been used by writers such as Spenser, Bunyan, and Samuel Johnson, but it fell into disfavor in the early 19th century and is now found only in nonstandard and dialect use Origin Old English leornian ‘learn’ (in Middle English also ‘teach’), of West Germanic origin; related to German lernen, also to lore. |