Learned vs Found - What's the difference?
learned | found |
(US) (learn): taught
Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
* 1854 , Charles Edward Pollock, Lake v. Plaxton , 156 Eng. Rep. 412 (Exch.) 414; 10 Ex. 199, 200 (Eng.)
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(learn)
Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
Food and lodging, board.
(find)
To begin building.
To start some type of organization or company.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
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To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
* Milton
As verbs the difference between learned and found
is that learned is past tense of learn: taught while found is past tense of find.As an adjective learned
is having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.As a noun found is
food and lodging, board.learned
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lerned, from (etyl)Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell [...].
- My learned Brother Cresswell directed the jury to make the calculation [...].
- My learned friend (a formal, courteous description of a lawyer)
Alternative forms
*Usage notes
* This adjectival sense of this word is sometimes spelled with a grave accent. This is meant to indicate that the second ‘e’ is pronounced as , rather than being silent, as in the verb form. This usage is largely restricted to poetry and other works in which it is important that the adjective’s disyllabicity be made explicit.Synonyms
* (having much knowledge) brainy, erudite, knowledgeable, scholarly, educated * See alsoAntonyms
* (having little knowledge) ignorant, stupid, thick, uneducatedDerived terms
* learnedly * learnednessEtymology 2
From (etyl)Alternative forms
* learntVerb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct.
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English
Etymology 1
see find.Noun
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Verb
(head)Derived terms
* found footage * lost and foundEtymology 2
From (etyl) founder (French: fonder), from (etyl) fundare.Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=“… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded . …”}}
Synonyms
* (to start organization) establishAntonyms
* (to begin building) ruin * (to start organization) dissolve, abolishReferences
* Oxford Online Dictionary, found * WordNet 3.1: A Lexical Database for English, Princeton UniversityEtymology 3
From (etyl) fondre.Verb
(en verb)- Whereof to found their engines.
