learn
Verb
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Gain knowledge or skills (synset 200599310)
"She learned dancing from her sister"; "I learned Sanskrit"; "Children acquire language at an amazing rate"subtypes:
- relearn - learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it
- catch up - learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened
- absorb, assimilate, ingest, take in - take up mentally
- hit the books, study - learn by reading books
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Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally (synset 200600349)
"I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted"subtypes:
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Commit to memory;
Learn by heart (synset 200605971)"Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?"is a type of: hit the books, study - learn by reading bookssubtypes: alternate, understudy - be an understudy or alternate for a role -
Be a student of a certain subject (synset 200601387)
"She is reading for the bar exam"subtypes:
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Impart skills or knowledge to (synset 200830768)
"I taught them French"; "He instructed me in building a boat"is a type of: inform - impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event tosubtypes:
- develop, educate, prepare, train - create by training and teaching
- indoctrinate - teach doctrines to; teach uncritically
- drill - teach by repetition
- catechise, catechize - give religious instructions to
- reinforce, reward - strengthen and support with rewards
- spoonfeed - teach without challenging the students
- induct - introduce or initiate
- mentor - serve as a teacher or trusted counselor
- tutor - be a tutor to someone; give individual instruction
- unteach - cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier
- unteach - cause to unlearn
- ground - instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject
- lecture, talk - deliver a lecture or talk
- coach, train - teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports
- edify, enlighten - make understand
- condition - establish a conditioned response
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Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort (synset 200922307)
"I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time"subtypes: test - determine the presence or properties of (a substance)
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