Achieve vs Learn - What's the difference?
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To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
* I. Taylor
(obsolete) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.1:
To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
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(obsolete) To conclude, to turn out.
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* (William Shakespeare), (Othello), II-i
To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
To attend a course or other educational activity.
* 1719 ,
To gain knowledge from a bad experience.
To be studying.
To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
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*:And whan she had serched hym / she fond in the bottome of his wound that therin was poyson / And soo she heled hym/ and therfore Tramtrist cast grete loue to la beale Isoud / for she was at that tyme the fairest mayde and lady of the worlde / And there Tramtryst lerned her to harpe / and she beganne to haue grete fantasye vnto hym
*1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
*:Sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.
*circa 1611 , (William Shakespeare), (Cymbeline), :
*:Have I not been / Thy pupil long? Hast thou not learn’d me how / To make perfumes?
*1993 , The Simpsons , (18 Feb. 1993)
*:That'll learn him to bust my tomater.
Achieve is a related term of learn.
As verbs the difference between achieve and learn
is that achieve is to succeed in something, now especially in academic performance while learn is to acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something or learn can be .achieve
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete )Verb
(achiev)- Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it.
- Full many Countreyes they did overronne, / From the uprising to the setting Sunne, / And many hard adventures did atchieve [...].
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- Some are born great, some achieve greatness.
- Thou hast achieved our liberty.
- Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved .
- He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description.
Synonyms
* accomplish, effect, fulfil, fulfill, complete, execute, perform, realize, obtain. See accomplishDerived terms
* achievement * achieverExternal links
* *learn
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lernen, from (etyl) . Compare (etyl) lernen.Verb
- For, as he took delight to introduce me, I took delight to learn.
- learn from one's mistakes
- He just learned that he will be sacked.
Usage notes
* See other, dated and regional, sense of below.Synonyms
* (l)Antonyms
* (l) * (l)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Compare Dutch leren, German (m).Verb
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