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learn S1 W1 /lɜːn $ lɜːrn/ verb (past tense and past participle learned or learnt /lɜːnt $ lɜːrnt/ especially British English) [Word Family: noun: learner, learning, unlearn; verb: learn; adverb: learnedly; adjective: learned] [Language : Old English; Origin : leornian] 1. SUBJECT/SKILL [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE]to gain knowledge of a subject or skill, by experience, by studying it, or by being taught ⇨ teach: ▪ What’s the best way to learn a language? learn (how) to do something ▪ I learnt to drive when I was 17. ▪ Hector spent the winter learning how to cope with his blindness. ▪ The teacher’s task is to help the pupil learn. learn (something) from somebody ▪ I learned a lot from my father. learn about ▪ Kids can have fun and learn about music at the same time. learn what ▪ Youngsters must learn what is dangerous and what is not to be feared. ▪ The student will learn from experience about the importance of planning. ► Do not say that you ‘learn someone something’ or ‘learn someone how to do something’. Use teach: I taught him how to send an email.
2. FIND OUT [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE] formal to find out information or news by hearing it from someone else or reading it SYN discover: ▪ I didn’t tell her the truth. She would learn it for herself soon enough. learn of/about ▪ He learned about his appointment by telephone yesterday. learn (that) ▪ Last week I learned that I was pregnant. ▪ She was surprised to learn that he was a lot older than she had thought. learn whether/who/why ▪ I waited to learn whether I’d secured a college place. ▪ We have yet to learn who will be the new manager.
3. REMEMBER [TRANSITIVE]to get to know something so well that you can easily remember it SYN memorize: ▪ The actors hardly had time to learn their lines before filming started.
4. CHANGE YOUR BEHAVIOUR [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE]to gradually understand a situation and start behaving in the way that you should learn (that) ▪ They have to learn that they can’t just do whatever they like. learn to do something ▪ Young hairdressers must learn to treat the client as a person, not a head of hair. ▪ I’ve told him a hundred times not to bully people, but he never learns. learn from ▪ You have to learn from your mistakes (=understand why what you did was wrong). ▪ the lessons learned in the Gulf War
5. somebody has learned their lesson used to say that someone will not do something wrong or stupid again, because they suffered as a result: ▪ I’ve learned my lesson; I’ve now got a burglar alarm and a guard dog.
6. learn (something) the hard way to understand a situation or develop a skill by learning from your mistakes and bad experiences
7. that’ll learn somebody! spoken used when something bad has just happened to someone as a result of their actions, especially when they ignored a warning ⇨ live and learn at live1(20) • • • THESAURUS ▪learn to gain knowledge of a subject or skill, especially by being taught or trained : ▪ How long have you been learning Italian? ▪ What age can you learn to drive in America? ▪study to learn about a subject by reading books, going to classes etc, especially at school or university : ▪ She’s studying music at Berkeley College in California. ▪train to learn the skills and get the experience that you need in order to do a particular job : ▪ Julie’s training to be a nurse. ▪pick something up to learn something without much effort, by watching or listening to other people : ▪ It’s easy to pick up a language when you’re living in a country. ▪ The rules of the game are easy – you’ll soon pick them up. ▪get the hang of something informal to learn how to do or use something that is fairly complicated, especially with practice : ▪ It took me a while to get the hang of all the features on my new camera. ▪revise British English, review American English to study facts again, especially on your own, in order to learn them before an examination : ▪ Jenny’s upstairs revising for her Maths exam tomorrow. ▪master to learn something so well that you have no difficulty with it, especially a skill or a language : ▪ She gave me a book called ‘Mastering the Art of French Cooking’. ▪ I learnt Spanish for years but I never really mastered it.
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a learning outcome (=what someone is supposed to learn from something) ▪ It is important to set teaching objectives and learning outcomes. a lot to do/learn/say etc ▪ I still have a lot to learn. ▪ It’s a great city, with lots to see and do. a working/learning environment ▪ Most people prefer a quiet working environment. astonished to see/find/hear/learn etc ▪ We were astonished to find the temple still in its original condition. be gratified to see/hear/learn etc ▪ John was gratified to see the improvement in his mother’s health. dismayed to see/discover/learn etc ▪ Ruth was dismayed to see how thin he had grown. distance learning disturbed to find/see/discover/learn etc ▪ She was disturbed to learn he had bought a motorbike. fascinated to see/hear/learn etc ▪ Ed was fascinated to see gorillas in the wild. intrigued to know/learn etc ▪ She was intrigued to know what he planned to do next. know/learn from experience ▪ Janet knew from experience that love doesn't always last. learn a craft ▪ As a girl, she had to learn the craft of hand sewing. learn a language ▪ Immigrants are expected to learn the language of their new country. learn a poem (=learn it so that you can remember it without reading it) ▪ Hugh had learned the whole poem by heart as a boy. learn a skill (also acquire a skillformal) ▪ People can acquire new skills while they are unemployed. learn a technique ▪ We will help the beginner learn these basic techniques. learn from your mistakes ▪ I’m sure he will learn from his mistakes. learn poetry ▪ He made us learn a lot of poetry by heart. learn the piano ▪ He wanted his children to learn the piano. learn the truth ▪ When she learns the truth, she may decide to help us. learn to cope ▪ In this job, you'll have to learn to cope with pressure. learn to play an instrument (also learn an instrument) ▪ All students at the school have the opportunity to learn an instrument. learn to talk ▪ How do babies learn to talk? learn vocabulary ▪ What's the best way of learning new vocabulary? learned the hard way ▪ He learned the hard way about the harsh reality of the boxing world. learned this lesson the hard way ▪ Make sure you put the baby’s diaper on before you start feeding her. I learned this lesson the hard way. Learning and Skills Council, the learning curve ▪ Everyone in the centre has been through a very steep learning curve they had to learn very quickly. learning difficulties ▪ a school for children with learning difficulties learning disability learning disabled (=children who have problems learning) ▪ teachers who work with learning disabled children learning the ropes ▪ I spent the first month just learning the ropes. learning...by rote ▪ In old-fashioned schools, much learning was by rote. learning/physical/mental etc disability ▪ children with severe learning disabilities learn...lines ▪ It always took me ages to learn my lines. programmed learning rote learning ▪ the rote learning of facts shock sb to hear/learn/discover etc that ▪ They had been shocked to hear that the hospital was closing down. ▪ It shocked me to think how close we had come to being killed. sorry to hear/see/learn ▪ I was sorry to hear about your accident. steep learning curve (=they had to learn very quickly) ▪ Everyone in the centre has been through a very steep learning curve . the learning process ▪ The student is actively involved in the learning process. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADVERB about ▪ More than 200 years later, we still have much to learn about the species. ▪ Needless to say, I learned about getting things done, the hard way. ▪ It is quite a new badge and involves learning about seven animals and seven plants. ▪ He learned about where the money came from and where it went, its exciting Protestant predictability. ▪ I would like to suggest that poetry helps the writer to learn about three things. ▪ We have been reared like our brothers to develop our potential, not to mind younger siblings and learn about infant care. ▪ And families need to help each other because, in the end, it's all about learning to love. ▪ There he learned about diet, exercise, yoga, meditation, relationships, and the importance of talking out his frustrations. how ▪ I had to learn how to compromise. ▪ The families of Oneida really did seem to be learning how to overcome exclusive feelings. ▪ Teachers will learn how to evaluate materials in the light of the theoretical background. ▪ Now I know that you need to learn how to fight. ▪ They can be made adaptive so that each packet learns how to work with others and how to perform its task better. ▪ We learned how many voice mail messages you had. ▪ It is misleading if it means simply that students learn how to acquire conventional encyclopaedia-like knowledge for themselves. ▪ I told him that I hoped someday to learn how to speak Sioux. more ▪ And an information day is being planned for anyone wanting to learn more about the day care centre appeal. ▪ I phoned to learn more and discovered Yedida Nielsen. ▪ I learned more about coaching sprinters by reading this book than I have in the past 30 years in the sport. ▪ We need to learn more about what we can do for the elderly patient. ▪ I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I'd been at school. ▪ Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking children. ▪ Further knowledge is necessary if historians are to learn more about the standard of living of ordinary workers. ▪ The research and clinical communities are scrambling to learn more, try new ideas, and explore new treatments. never ▪ It is obvious that you will never learn it correctly. ▪ An eccentric nobleman has never learned how to read a clock. ▪ Without their efforts, pupils would never learn that all-important principle of science, the controlled fair test. ▪ Red learned never to stray from the path or talk to strangers again. ▪ Is not it a fact that he never learns from experience? ▪ He was in the Eighth Grade but he had never learned to read. ▪ You never learn, do you? ▪ I never learned why the Vanyas singled me out to receive this gift. NOUN child ▪ This is the process of carrying through what is said so that the child learns that parents mean what they say. ▪ From their father, Marvin, the children learned the vagaries of business. ▪ Girl children learn these messages in subtle ways. ▪ As a child she learned cooking at her grandmother's side, and, indeed, a toque was born. ▪ Within social services, respite care for children with learning difficulties was provided by the local specialist units. ▪ They argue that the legislated-excellence movement is wrong not only about how children learn, but also about what they should learn. ▪ A regular bowel training programme has to be implemented so that the child learns to pass a normal soft stool. ▪ Watching us, our children learn that people write to keep in touch, and that letters are usually answered. experience ▪ The crowd is an experience that people can learn from. ▪ However, invariably, it is not only bad experiences of learning that are committed to memory. ▪ More than a few of us got our first work experience and learned positive work habits in this manner. ▪ The event will offer opportunities for partnerships new and old to share experiences and learn from each other. ▪ For many boys, competitive games represent one of their critical formative learning experiences. ▪ Informal as it was, this feedback greatly enhanced the managers' ability to learn from experience. language ▪ Behaviourism, with its reduction of language learning to habit formation, is another example. ▪ Because language learning is so universal, one is tempted to believe that acquisition of spoken language is automatic or innate. ▪ And as they learn their native language, they also use language to learn other things. ▪ Following a stroke, some one might speak only a language that she learned as an exchange student. ▪ There were three languages to learn and I was getting nowhere with all of them. ▪ It is not the easiest language to learn, but it has structure and legibility. ▪ For language learning is essentially learning how grammar functions in the achievement of meaning and it is a mistake to suppose otherwise. lesson ▪ A wide variety of valuable lessons is learned at such times when the pupils strengthen their ties with the School Community. ▪ But it was a lesson worth learning. ▪ They hope by sharing their agony, the lessons will be learned. and a tragedy like this will never happen again. ▪ The primary lesson plan is that learning should be fun, and that nostalgia rocks. ▪ In practice the lesson must be learned anew. ▪ The first lesson to be learned from these studies is that the extinctions were indeed devastating. ▪ Projects in different parts of the country have gained valuable experience and useful lessons have been learned. ▪ When a product or service takes off unexpectedly, there are inevitably important lessons to be learned. lot ▪ My senior management team is important to me and I learn a lot from them. ▪ You will learn a lot from this book, but expect your socks to stay resolutely in place. ▪ They said they had learned a lot. ▪ By the end of the sixties, I had learned a lot about Britain from watching television. ▪ Very quickly, I learned a lot about the company. ▪ Radio journalists learned to carry lots of change because a pay phone was a necessity when a story was breaking. ▪ I did the tutorial that came with the package deal and learned a lot through trial and error. mistake ▪ As time proceeds they will learn from their mistakes. ▪ Such systems would have to learn from their mistakes, their observations and experiences of the world. ▪ So long as we learn something from every mistake we make, time hasn't been wasted. ▪ The doctor was quick to learn from his mistakes, and had a certain cavalier courage that served him well. ▪ What is important is to learn by our mistakes soas to avoid future problems. ▪ You can only hope they learned from their mistakes. ▪ We'd grown up in television together, learning from our mistakes, trying out new ideas. ▪ Rather than give up, the program developers began to learn from these mistakes. opportunity ▪ Secondment is an opportunity for them to learn at first hand about the world of work to which their students are aspiring. ▪ Working in the kitchen to prepare a meal provides opportunities to learn about weights, measures, and fractions-and cooperation. ▪ Everyone has a contribution to make to ward teaching and the student should take every possible opportunity to learn. ▪ Trips provide opportunities for learning geography and map reading. ▪ He took every opportunity to learn while arranging pillows and giving comfort. ▪ The company that provides adequate opportunities for new learning will nurture employability security and loyalty. ▪ The bird in this treatment would have the opportunity to learn the skill by imitation. ▪ My involvement with counseling was marked by continuing opportunity to learn and by a strange draw toward more and more troubled people. people ▪ Our attempts to support young people in their learning are paying off. ▪ Few people learn about politics through direct experience. ▪ We were shown photographic slides of people enthusiastically learning how to read and write. ▪ Sometimes people have learning problems and they use visual means to help them understand. ▪ Is it primarily a handbook for managers or a review of developments in services for people with learning difficulties? ▪ For instance, many people learn in high school that alcohol is a depressant-a kind of chemical sledgehammer for the mind. ▪ With fewer rungs on the ladder, people have to learn to move sideways. ▪ These are things that people learn as they are working at the side of others. school ▪ The way local people used the facilities at Kirkleatham Hall School for pupils with learning difficulties impressed the assessors. ▪ Unfortunately, many schools have yet to learn this, and the consequences are disastrous. ▪ A substantial amount of the training will be done in teaching practice at local schools and using distance learning methods. ▪ When I was in school I learned about two kinds of freedom. ▪ Joseph Dods has begun setting up clubs in County Durham schools to help youngsters learn about the natural world around them. ▪ In fact Sabour had arrived at City College with almost no school learning at all. skill ▪ This also develops technical skills as the pupils learn to use the microcomputer while carrying out the project. ▪ Companies are already paying for training programs to give employees the basic skills they should have learned in high school. ▪ The upgrade path is simple and can be undertaken whenever the relevant skills have been learned. ▪ Education must necessarily be about skill acquisition and content learning as well as development. ▪ It is a skill predators will readily learn. ▪ These days the most valuable skill you can learn in any job is how to read the handwriting on the wall. ▪ What extra skills have I learned through doing those jobs? ▪ Positive coping skills are learned when parents are able to establish clear limits by saying no and meaning it. student ▪ As students we wanted to learn about Mandela and how the land was taken from black farmers. ▪ Medical records are also useful in helping the student to learn about all aspects of a patient's care. ▪ In Tampa, Fla., he posed with elementary school students learning how to run businesses. ▪ Long before going solo the student should have learned the mnemonic by heart. ▪ Tri-County and high school faculty collaborated with employers to determine the competencies that students will learn on the job. ▪ The identification of objectives: what must the students learn? 2. ▪ He insisted that his students learn the theory behind each instrumental technique. things ▪ But listening does more than that, it gives you a chance to learn and to get things into context. ▪ I think i learned some really important things from bad leaders. ▪ I mean you learn things off the others. ▪ You learn these things for yourself. ▪ And as they learn their native language, they also use language to learn other things. ▪ Active learning, doing real things, being real scientists, these things typify classroom and school communities that work. ▪ If we want to understand another person we have to learn how to see things from their point of view. ▪ This is one of those submerged concepts that is normally learned as an incidental consequence of learning other things. trade ▪ He joined Anglo in 1968, learning the mining trade in the firm's diamond, gold and uranium divisions. ▪ I was learning Hugh's trade, and helping my granny with her flower stall at the harbour. ▪ He tried hard to wean them away from crime by persuading them to learn a trade instead. ▪ She had joined a world-famous company, learning her trade well until finally starting her own business. ▪ He has always played at being the happiest guy on earth, because he learned that the first trade is the hardest. ▪ Graham knows his defender should be learning his trade by the occasional appearance in a winning team to breed confidence. ▪ I started to learn a trade so many times, and never finished. VERB help ▪ The comments that follow are intended to help in learning to identify and reject unusable answers. ▪ Your goal is to help your child learn to take charge herself. ▪ The society, a national charity, aims to help people with learning difficulties reach their full potential. ▪ It also helped her to learn about, give a name to, and normalize this postpartum condition. ▪ Poetry can help children to learn about themselves, about the world around them and about their relationship to the world. ▪ To help him learn to regulate his motor system, games that combine slow and fast movements work well. ▪ Gradually the parent is helped to learn how to play with, talk to, and enjoy their child. need ▪ Men too may need to learn to delegate duties both at work and at home. ▪ They needed a mighty wake-up call as much as they needed to learn the parts of speech. ▪ That is what we need to learn from sects. ▪ None of the current network models discussed in this book incorporates all of the properties needed true for autonomous learning. ▪ Mme Deloche taught me the basics I needed to learn. ▪ Still, you can experience a lot of the fun of guitar playing without all the work needed to learn how. ▪ To do this, you will need to learn a technique called scribing. ▪ It is intended to offer the under-standing that parents and caregivers need to learn from, and help, their challenging children. surprise ▪ He seemed surprised to learn that Sir John Lawrence was still in place. ▪ She was quite surprised to learn the gadgets were on sale that week at $ 49. 95, batteries not included. ▪ It wouldn't even surprise me to learn that you set it up! ▪ He was surprised to learn they were plainclothes Jerusalem city police officers. ▪ It didn't surprise her to learn that he was extremely knowledgeable where his subject was concerned. ▪ I was prepared to find lots on him but am surprised and gratified to learn of her existence. ▪ At least one dancer was surprised to learn that Alvin had a brother, so secretive was he about his life. ▪ Women are often surprised to learn that we have benefited from affirmative action programs. teach ▪ Here we see technology really used to improve teaching and learning. ▪ This type of knowledge can neither be taught nor learned. ▪ By the simple act of hiding the desk something is clearly said about teaching and learning. ▪ This, combined with lively illustrations, provides material that is easy to teach and fun to learn. ▪ To many, the distinction between rote memorization and understanding is unclear and leads to confused teaching and learning. ▪ Such formalities as this are easily taught and can even be fun to teach and learn. ▪ These three steps can begin to break down even the largest schools into more genuine teaching and learning communities. want ▪ I want to learn how to repair shoes. ▪ Grammar, reading, dictation, and conversation. l want to learn a minimum of twenty-five words a day. ▪ A child's education - they would teach it things I didn't want it to learn, at school. ▪ For climbers who want to learn, no local outfitter can legally teach them. ▪ Only I do want to learn. ▪ But you will wait in vain if you want to learn anything more detailed about tornadoes, floods, hurricanes or blizzards. ▪ We do not want to learn that. ▪ Now he has her wanting to learn how to tat lace. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES independent study/learning ▪ Councillors will discuss the possibility of funding an independent study into the mine's viability. ▪ In the spring semester Gordon taught two seminars and took on more than a dozen students for independent study projects. ▪ It will make provision for mixed-ability groups much easier to organise, and encourage independent study. ▪ Other recent examples of comparative studies are those of Lowe - independent study modules and lecture tours, in 1981. ▪ The course manual can be used for independent study. ▪ The increased use of independent learning at higher levels within the pathway is reflected in the assessment pattern within the modules. ▪ Two independent studies since the 1968 election confirm the trend. ▪ Would you like to do this as an independent study? know/find out/learn etc sth to your cost learn/be taught sth at your mother's knee learned books/works etc my learned friend seat of learning ▪ It would be sad if our own seats of learning were behind-hand in this confusion. ▪ Leave this seat of learning and you come into the newly renamed Marianské Square. ▪ She spoke of Oxford, that ancient seat of learning, to which universities all over the world still looked for example. you live and learn EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ As an actor, she always had trouble learning her lines. ▪ Before you sail, you need to learn about basic boat controls. ▪ By sharing their problems, sufferers of the disease learn to cope with the symptoms. ▪ Dad taught us a Sanskrit prayer, and we had to learn it off by heart and say it every day. ▪ Do you think you can learn this tune for Friday's performance? ▪ Gradually, I learned to trust her. ▪ Have you learned anything from the experience? ▪ He felt that his son needed to learn some hard lessons about life. ▪ His daughter's learning to drive. ▪ How long did it take you to learn how to do this? ▪ How long have you been learning German? ▪ I'm going to try to learn 12 new words each week. ▪ I've been trying to learn my lines, but I haven't gotten very far. ▪ I doubt if we will ever learn the truth. ▪ I had learnt that as a woman, if your talents are ignored at work, you must be assertive. ▪ I soon learned that it was best to keep quiet. ▪ If you have a good memory you can learn things by rote, but can you apply it in practice? ▪ Never lend money to your friends - that's something I learnt the hard way. ▪ On this course, you will learn how to deal with communication problems. ▪ Our children attend the group twice a week to learn about Sikhism.
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