learn : Idioms & Phrases


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
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  1. 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.
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developmental learning

  • noun learning that takes place as a normal part of cognitive development
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half-learned

Half"-learned` adjective
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  1. Imperfectly learned.
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language learning

  • noun learning to use a language
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learned person

  • noun someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
    initiate; savant; pundit.
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learned profession

  • noun one of the three professions traditionally believed to require advanced learning and high principles
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learned reaction

  • noun a reaction that has been acquired by learning
    learned reaction.
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learned response

  • noun a reaction that has been acquired by learning
    learned reaction.
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learning ability

  • 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

  • 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

  • noun a disorder found in children of normal intelligence who have difficulties in learning specific skills
    learning disability.
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learning disorder

  • 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

  • noun curiosity that motivates investigation and study
    desire to know; thirst for knowledge.
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rote learning

  • noun memorization by repetition
    rote.
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sleep-learning

  • noun teaching during sleep (as by using recordings to teach a foreign language to someone who is asleep)
    hypnopedia.
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The learned

  • learned men; men of erudition; scholars.
Webster 1913

To learn by heart

  • . See By heart, under Heart.
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To learn by rote

  • to memorize by repetition without exercise of the understanding.
Webster 1913