Learning vs Recognition - What's the difference?
learning | recognition |
(uncountable) An act in which something is learned.
(uncountable) Accumulated knowledge.
(countable) Something that has been learned
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the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
an awareness that something observed has been observed before
acceptance as valid or true
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official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country
honour, favourable note, or attention
As nouns the difference between learning and recognition
is that learning is an act in which something is learned while recognition is the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized.As a verb learning
is present participle of lang=en.learning
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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Usage notes
Countable sense “thing learned” often used in plural form (m); see for details.Derived terms
* book-learning * higher learning * learning curve * learning disability * learning by doingrecognition
English
Noun
(en-noun)- He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.
- Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition ; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.
- The law was a recognition of their civil rights.
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.
