Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act, process, or experience of gaining knowledge or skill.
- n. Knowledge or skill gained through schooling or study. See Synonyms at knowledge.
- n. Psychology Behavioral modification especially through experience or conditioning.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of acquiring knowledge.
- n. Systematic knowledge; the information gained from books and instruction; education in general: as, a branch of learning; a low state of learning.
- n. Specifically, profound or extensive literary and scientific culture; erudition: as, a man of learning.
- n. That which is learned by study of or application to a particular subject; special knowledge or skill: as, to be deeply versed in the learning of an art or a profession; military or mercantile learning.
- n. Synonyms and Scholarship, Erudition, etc. (see literature); attainments, acquirements.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of learn.
- n. uncountable An act in which something is learned.
- n. uncountable Accumulated knowledge.
- n. countable Something that has been learned
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The acquisition of knowledge or skill
- n. The knowledge or skill received by instruction or study; acquired knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature; erudition; literature; science.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge
- n. profound scholarly knowledge
Examples
“As I take the matter, neither philosophy, nor any part of learning, is more necessary to poetry, (which, if you will believe the same author, is the sum of all learning) than to know the theory of light, and the several proportions and diversifications of it in particular colours, is to a good painter.”
“And though this poor Friar does not appear to have been very successful in this particular instance; if we take into account the fact that 'the Tragedy was the thing,' and that nothing but a tragedy would serve his purpose, and that all his learning was converged on that _effect_; if we take into account the fact that this is a scientific experiment, and that the characters are sacrificed for the sake of the useful conclusions, the success will not perhaps appear so questionable as to throw any discredit upon this new theory of the applicability of _learning_ to questions of this nature.”
“•reading assignments •access the learning materials •Students know the general scope of • learning materials •access the reading the learning unit •learning activities •Students start thinking about the assignments •assignments •access the supplementary learning unit content”
“Before the 1960s, the term learning disabilities LD was unknown.”
“The term "learning" hsüeh points directly to the acquisition of knowledge with the belief that knowledge can provide humankind with the tools they need to understand themselves and their world.”
The Huffington Post: Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D.: Back To School With Confucius
“The term "learning" hsüeh points directly to the acquisition of knowledge with the belief that knowledge can provide humankind with the tools they need to understand themselves and their world.”
The Huffington Post: Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D.: Back To School With Confucius
“Yes; I was being flippant, and yes the term learning difficulties, is intended to cover as Dixon has stated “but is applied to people with very specific conditions such as Downs syndrome” and as Fergus would have it “covers a fair bit of waterfront”.”
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
“When re-thinking curriculum, how about throwing it out, putting in learning, letting the learners make the curriculum, and then analyzing whether the learning is happening?”
“But identifying and cataloging all the genes involved in learning is a daunting task.”
Scientists Identify Genes Activated During Learning And Memory | Impact Lab
“For the United States, salvation lies in learning from the mistake, in looking at it clearly and being honest about it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘learning’.
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CULT - Cedefop
The different stages of lifelong learning
access to educati..., accreditation of ..., accreditation of ..., adaptability, adult education, alternance training, apprenticeship, assessment of lea..., awarding body, basic information..., basic skills, certificate and 103 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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BIOL - the brain
tumor, retina, tremor, arousal, clot, ruptured blood ve..., pressure on a blo..., brain region, comprehension of ..., production of mea..., autonomic nervous..., conservation of t... and 564 more...
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Freedom to Read
freedom, read, liberty, success, enjoyment, learning, skill, ability, accomplishment, achievement, intellectual, joy and 11 more...
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Happy Therapy
Starting up a therapeutic service? Here are some words you can sprinkle throughout your brochure to sell your particular brand of change.
holistic, integration, nurture, exploration, acceptance, treatment, empower, supportive, teamwork, development, change, community and 14 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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Writing
immunity, reaching, ingenuity, divinity, affinity, kaleidoscopes, statistics, hope, pictures, linguistics, magenta, mist and 222 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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dont know
good direction
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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angelesb's list
education
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a few of my favorite words
these are some of my favorite words...
brilliant, delicious, lovely, ever, with, present, here, light, radiant, bright, beauty, live and 209 more...
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Diversified Obsessions
calendars, running, music, men, friends, motherhood, art, food, solitude, connection, drama, humor and 117 more...
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wurdzgurl's Words
machination, epiphany, errant, ebullient, parsimonious, egoistic, narcissitic, complaisant, neurosis, essential, compass, spontaneous and 38 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for learning.

whichbe An oddity about that infamous Bush quote, Dimélion, is that if you listen closely to the video he actually starts to say the correct word (are) but then interrupts himself to use is instead. Jan 2, 2009
dimã©lion is our children learning? Nov 21, 2008