Word Finder - learning

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To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.

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To attend a course or other educational activity.

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To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.

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learn from one's mistakes

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To study.

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I learn medicine.

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To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.

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He just learned that he will be sacked.

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To teach.

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Give him a clip round the ear. That'll learn him!

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An act in which something is learned.

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Accumulated knowledge.

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The department head was also a scholar of great learning.

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Something that has been learned

You are learning about them today.

I'm learning a lot.

I want you to start learning what it means to be in charge of something.

He reiterated his concern about anyone outside our group learning of what we were doing.

She had always feared learning to love a child, only to have the mother change her mind.

I started learning to shoot a laser gun today, she said.

Learning which ones probably took experience – a lot of it.

Learning about Ed Plotke is still the best lead we have on finding the identity of Martha's bones.

The parents and guardians were called upon to select whether each child should learn English or Italian next after learning reading, writing and arithmetic in Maltese.

The Deans were learning the sport of ice climbing is critically dependent on equipment, unique and not inexpensive.

I know it's not easy for you, but there's bound to be a learning curve.

We never will have the opportunity to learn from the details of their lives and the trillions upon trillions of trial-and-error learning that humankind has repeated again and again.

He began to understand her reluctance to be involved with him and how thick the walls around her heart were, if she spent the years since the Schism learning how to shut people and emotion out.

He was also a man of learning and culture.

His father was his first teacher, and took pains to instruct him in all the learning of the time, especially in medicine.

The hour from twelve to one is devoted to the learning of new words.

She placed a checkmark next to the first of her ideas for learning to use her power.

She gripped the hourglass, a symbol of her hope at leaving, even after learning that there was no real hope.

I never knew she existed until a day ago, and I'm only now learning how awful of a person she was.

I don't know much about the plants and wildlife out here, but I'm learning.

At Leiden, Utrecht, Groningen, Franeker, Breda, Nimeguen, Harderwyk, Duisburg and Herborn, and at the Catholic university of Louvain, Cartesianism was warmly expounded and defended in seats of learning, of which many are now left desolate, and by adherents whose writings have for the most part long lost interest for any but the antiquary.

It was immediately answered from the side of the " old learning " by Gardiner.

The period of the revival of learning, which was also that of a renewed study of nature, is marked by a considerable amount of speculation respecting the origin of the universe.

Ideas as well as learning are largely Montaigne's.

Athens has thus become a centre of learning, a meeting-place for scholars and a basis for research in every part of the Greek world.

Owing to the numbers and activity of its institutions, both native and foreign, for the prosecution of research and the encouragement of classical studies, Athens has become Scientific once more an international seat of learning.

Girolamo was a precocious child, with an early passion for learning.

There is no proof that any book or painting of real merit was sacrificed, and Savonarola was neither foe to art nor to learning.

In the 5th and 6th centuries Gaza was held in high repute as a place of learning.

Charlotte was occupied in September 1780 by Cornwallis, who left it after learning of the battle of King's Mountain, and subsequently it became the principal base and rendezvous of General Greene.

In his own days Aldo's learning won the hearty acknowledgment of ripe scholars.

At the age of twenty-one he had acquired a solid reputation for scholarship and learning.

I was only just learning to speak, and had previously repeated her name until I could say it perfectly.

Helen is learning adjectives and adverbs as easily as she learned nouns.

But someday I shall have finished learning, and then I will do something.

In the universities of the Netherlands and of lower Germany, as yet free from the conservatism of the old-established seats of learning, the new system gained an easy victory over Aristotelianism, and, as it was adapted for lectures and examinations, soon became almost as scholastic as the doctrines it had supplanted.

Fortified by this exhaustive preparation, Aquinas began his Summa Theologiae, which he intended to be the sum of all known learning, arranged according to the best method, and subordinate to the dictates of the church.

The doctors were to teach the faithful in sound learning, to guard purity of doctrine, and to be amenable to discipline.

It was a council created by parliament to give advice in church matters at a great crisis in the nation's history; but its acts, though from the high character and great learning of its members worthy of deepest respect, did not per se bind parliament or indeed anyone.

A monastery founded here by St Carthagh in 633 became so celebrated as a seat of learning that it is said no fewer than twenty churches were erected in its vicinity.

He encouraged learning to the extent of admitting Sir Thomas More into his household, and writing a Latin history of Richard III., which More translated into English.

He also studied the first six books of Euclid and some algebra, besides reading a considerable quantity of Hebrew and learning the Odes of Horace by heart.

He appointed visitors for the universities and great public schools, and defended the universities from the attacks of the extreme sectaries who clamoured for their abolition, even Clarendon allowing that Oxford "yielded a harvest of extraordinary good and sound knowledge in all parts of learning."

After the revival of learning Plautus was reinstated, and took rank as one of the great dramatists of antiquity; cf.

Although Cairoli, upon learning of the Anglo-Ottoman convention in regard to Cyprus, had advised Count Corti of the possibility that Great Britain might seek to placate France by conniving at a French occupation of Tunisia, neither he nor Count Corti had any inkling of the verbal arrangement made between.

The course taken by Cranmer in promoting the Reformation exposed him to the bitter hostility of the reactionary party or " men of the old learning," of whom Gardiner and Bonner were leaders, and on various occasions - notably in 1543 and 1 545 - conspiracies were formed in the council or elsewhere to effect his overthrow.

His vehicle (vahana) is a goose or swan (hamsa), whence he is also called Harnsavahana; and his consort is Sarasvati, the goddess of learning.

Throughout the middle ages the sancta civitas Trevirorum abounded in religious foundations and was a great seat of monastic learning.

Comparative anatomists have been learning to refrain from basing the diagnosis of a species, or the description of the condition of an organ, on the evidence of a single specimen.

It should be remembered that, from the latter part of the 3rd century, the leading bishops had generally been trained in secular learning.