learn : Idioms & Phrases
Index
- Book learning
- book-learned
- developmental learning
- half-learned
- language learning
- learned person
- learned profession
- learned reaction
- learned response
- learning ability
- learning curve
- learning disability
- learning disorder
- lust for learning
- rote learning
- sleep-learning
- The learned
- To learn by heart
- To learn by rote
Book learning
- learning acquired from books, as distinguished from practical knowledge. "Neither does it so much require book learning and scholarship, as good natural sense, to distinguish true and false." Burnet.
Webster 1913
book-learned
Book"-learned` adjective
Definitions
Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books. Often in a disparaging sense.Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play. Dryden.
Webster 1913
developmental learning
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noun learning that takes place as a normal part of cognitive development
WordNet
half-learned
Half"-learned` adjective
Definitions
Imperfectly learned.
Webster 1913
language learning
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noun learning to use a language
WordNet
learned person
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noun someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
initiate; savant; pundit.
WordNet
learned profession
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noun one of the three professions traditionally believed to require advanced learning and high principles
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learned reaction
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noun a reaction that has been acquired by learning
learned reaction.
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learned response
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noun a reaction that has been acquired by learning
learned reaction.
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learning ability
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noun mental ability
mental capacity; mentality; brainpower; brain; wit.
- he's got plenty of brains but no common sense
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learning curve
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noun a graph showing the rate of learning (especially a graph showing the amount recalled as a function of the number of attempts to recall)
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learning disability
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noun a disorder found in children of normal intelligence who have difficulties in learning specific skills
learning disability.
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learning disorder
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noun a disorder found in children of normal intelligence who have difficulties in learning specific skills
learning disability.
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lust for learning
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noun curiosity that motivates investigation and study
desire to know; thirst for knowledge.
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rote learning
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noun memorization by repetition
rote.
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sleep-learning
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noun teaching during sleep (as by using recordings to teach a foreign language to someone who is asleep)
hypnopedia.
WordNet
The learned
- learned men; men of erudition; scholars.
Webster 1913
To learn by heart
- . See
By heart , underHeart .
Webster 1913
To learn by rote
- to memorize by repetition without exercise of the understanding.
