Learn vs Learning - What's the difference?
learn | learning |
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.
(uncountable) An act in which something is learned.
(uncountable) Accumulated knowledge.
(countable) Something that has been learned
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As verbs the difference between learn and learning
is that learn is to acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something while learning is present participle of lang=en.As a noun learning is
an act in which something is learned.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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Usage notes
Now often considered non-standard.Derived terms
* (l)References
* * * Family Word Finder Readers Digest Association Inc. NY 1975learning
English
Verb
(head)- I'm learning to ride a unicycle.
Noun
(en-noun)- Learning to ride a unicycle sounds exciting.
- The department head was also a scholar of great learning .
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