Team vs Learn - What's the difference?
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A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
* Macaulay
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 111:
Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work.
(obsolete) A group of animals moving together, especially young ducks.
* Holland
* Dryden
(UK, legal, obsolete) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
* ALEXANDER M. BURRILL, LAW DICTIONARY & GLOSSARY, vol II, 1871 URL: http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924022836450
To form a group, as for sports or work.
To convey or haul with a team.
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.
As a noun team
is team.As a verb learn is
to acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something or learn can be .team
English
(wikipedia team)Etymology 1
From (etyl) teme, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighbouring farm to tug them out of the slough.
- The adjacent alleys were choked with tethered wagons, the teams reversed and nuzzling gnawed corn-ears over the tail-boards.
- We need more volunteers for the netball team .
- The IT manager leads a team of three software developers.
- a team of ducklings about her
- a long team of snowy swans on high
- TEAM, Theam, Tem, Them. Sax. [from tyman, to propagate, to teem.] In old English law. Literally, an offspring, race or generation. A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes and villeins, and their offspring or suit. They who had a jurisdiction of this kind, were said to have a court of Theme... constantly used in the old books in connection with toll, in the expression Toll & Team.
Usage notes
* When referring to the actions of a sports team, British English typically uses the third-person plural form rather than the third-person singular. However, this is not done in other contexts such as in business or politics. ** **: Manchester were unable to bring the strong team they originally intended, ** **: Leeds were champions again.Descendants
* German: (l)Verb
(en verb)- They teamed to complete the project.
- to team lumber
- (Thoreau)
Derived terms
* double-teamEtymology 2
Verb
(head)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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