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.
- 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.
- n. the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge
- n. profound scholarly knowledge
“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.”
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“Before the 1960s, the term learning disabilities LD was unknown.”
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“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”.”
“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.”
“For the United States, salvation lies in learning from the mistake, in looking at it clearly and being honest about it.”
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