learn
IPA: ɫˈɝn
noun
- The act of learning something
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
verb
- To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
- To attend a course or other educational activity.
- To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
- To study.
- To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
- (now only in non-standard speech and dialects) To teach.
- 1993, The Simpsons, (18 Feb. 1993) Lisa's thoughts:
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Examples of "learn" in Sentences
- They evinced the learnings.
- I learned about the tetragon at school.
- She learned how to write poetics in school.
- After leaving school he learned the machinist trade.
- It is gratifying to see someone learn from the course.
- He attended the common schools, and learned the trade of tanner.
- I pursued my study in depth and learned the give and take of disputation.
- He attended public and private schools and learned the trade of machinist.
- Balzac had difficulty adapting to the rote style of learning at the school.
- He learned to write in a handsome script and studied technical draftsmanship.
- J-Lo thinks Caleb is cute, which we soon learn is code for "You're going to Hollywood."
- They best way for me to learn is to engage in discussion and argument about the subject.
- One perfectly valid way to learn is to put your thinking out there and let people comment on it.
- The easiest way to learn is to be taught by the actual master herself, Paula Kates from PJ's soaps.
- I'm glad to have had the opportunity to put this through the mill because it seems the only way to learn is to do.
- Basically, writers, the lesson to learn is to tie up your loose ends, and make sure that if you raise the stakes in your plot, you show how bad the devastation will be or what there is to lose, etc.
- If you're a scientist working in the proprietary labs of industry I've heard that the very first thing you have to learn is to UN-learn what you've been taught about the brick wall around causation.
- Precious as are the words which drop from His lips, which are spirit and are life, His life itself is more than all His teachings; and it is when we learn, not _from_ Him, but when we _learn_ Him, that we see the Father.
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- He beat all Ireland in the Intermediate examinations, and when I met him in America years afterwards he said: ‘There is nothing I cannot learn and nothing that I want to learn’.534 Some instinct drew us together, it was to him I used to read my poems.