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[lurnt]

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verb

a simple past tense and past participle of learn.

Example Sentences

The next generation will have learnt predominantly from them.

Teaching is always a lot more fun if you come away feeling that you have learnt something too.

The chaebol have mostly learnt their lesson, but some lapses continue.

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The next generation will have learnt predominantly from them.

Teaching is always a lot more fun if you come away feeling that you have learnt something too.

The chaebol have mostly learnt their lesson, but some lapses continue.

Kimmy learnt never to take something that isn't hers.

No they learnt the traits, meaning intelligence traits are learntand not inherited.

We've already learnt twice how harmful a war against other world power is for a country.

We've learnt a lot along the way as well, and have updated a few of our radio controlled car guides.

The irony was not lost on the guest moderator when she learnt of it and said she herself experienced it many times.

Sure, anytime educators ridicule others because they haven't learnt the subject matter, it's a problem.

Yet the reductions in response time showed that they learnt faster when the pattern was present than when it was not.

We have learnt the bad things that have come out of doing this, let's not go over it again.

Inflammation is a complex process and a lot needs to be learnt about it, which may then answer many questions.

Europe has learnt from its experience of trying to constrain emissions, and is getting better at it.

The crew had learnt a lesson from yesterday and allocated people to take care of the actors.

We have learnt something of building upward spirals and of dealing with adversity, often with fun and joy.

Mathematical thought derives both from this natural ability and from concepts learnt culturally.

Most people think of tariffs as the main instrument of protectionism, but we've learnt during the crisis that there are many more.

These threats would be worrying enough if the banks had learnt how to lend properly.

But the government has learnt its lesson: since the protests, fuel duty has been frozen in every budget but one.

Today's central bankers learnt their trade in a world where the main danger was inflation.

But although this finding is widely accepted, even by ambitious managers, they often retort that they have learnt their lesson.

But both have learnt the cost of allowing duels to become brawls.

These are things fast-food firms have learnt to cope with and to deflect.

Much has since been learnt about what makes magnets behave as they do, right down to the quantum details.

He himself had learnt those meanings from the lives of his parents.

It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others, and it is also a sign of genius".

It was there he had learnt to thrive under the patient discipline and sound instruction of his masters.

Regulators will have learnt that they cannot, by prescribing ever more complex or.

Musicians use unique mental processes when it comes to recognising a tune but this trait is learnt rather than inherent.

It said in the paper about the clothes, and he remembered because he'd learnt it off.

Consequently, a third test was necessary to see if these abilities could have been learnt.

They also know that they've learnt a skill that puts them at the top of the pile in their community for jobs now.

The defence lawyer learnt of the charges only when they were read out in court.

Once our ancestors learnt to speak, something unusual and frightening would give rise to all sorts of rumours and legends.

But world has proven time and again that history repeats itself and some lessons are never learnt.

Consider having learnt a lesson and let go of the heartache.

It is spoken on every continent, is learnt as a second language by schoolchildren and is the.

She learnt to fly and became his co-pilot and navigator.

After much trial and error it seems to have learnt how to carry it off.

But somehow she learnt manners, along with a wry self-knowledge.

Buses, metro and trains are all run by different bodies, which have never learnt to co-ordinate their schedules.

She had learnt the piano as a child and had hoped to be a dancer.

And, once in office, she quickly learnt the power of racial politics.

It also raises productivity: one big supermarket chain noted that its stackers made many fewer mistakes once they learnt to read.

America's largest banks learnt how they did in the government's stress tests.

Brazilian executives tend to put their adventurousness down to an adaptability learnt during the wild inflationary days.

And the administration has learnt to learn from others.

It is also partly because the car firms have learnt that they have to be on the spot in order to understand local conditions.

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verb (used with object)

to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience: to learn French; to learn to ski.

to become informed of or acquainted with; ascertain: to learn the truth.

to memorize: He learned the poem so he could recite it at the dinner.

to gain (a habit, mannerism, etc.) by experience, exposure to example, or the like; acquire: She learned patience from her father.

(of a device or machine, especially a computer) to perform an analogue of human learning with artificial intelligence.

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Nonstandard. to instruct in; teach.

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verb (used without object)

to acquire knowledge or skill: to learn rapidly.

to become informed (usually followed by of): to learn of an accident.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English lernen, Old English leornian to learn, read, ponder (cognate with German lernen); akin to lesan to glean (cognate with German lesen to read). See lear

Related forms

learn·a·ble, adjective

mis·learn, verb, -learned or -learnt, -learn·ing.

out·learn, verb (used with object), -learned or -learnt, -learn·ing.

re·learn, verb, -learned or -learnt, -learn·ing.

Can be confused: learn, teach (see synonym note at the current entry; see synonym note at teach).

Synonyms
1. Learn, ascertain, detect, discover imply adding to one's store of facts. To learn is to add to one's knowledge or information: to learn a language. To ascertain is to verify facts by inquiry or analysis: to ascertain the truth about an event. To detect implies becoming aware of something that had been obscure, secret, or concealed: to detect a flaw in reasoning. To discover is used with objective clauses as a synonym of learn in order to suggest that the new information acquired is surprising to the learner: I discovered that she had been married before.

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learnt (lɜːnt)

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	a past tense and past participle of learn

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learn

O.E. leornian "to get knowledge, be cultivated," from P.Gmc. *liznojan (cf. O.Fris. lernia, O.H.G. lernen, Ger. lernen "to learn," Goth. lais "I know), with a base sense of "to follow or find the track," from PIE *leis- "track." Related to Ger. Gleis "track," and to O.E. læst "sole of the foot"

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(see last (n.)). The transitive sense (He learned me how to read), now vulgar, was acceptable from c.1200 until early 19c., from O.E. læran "to teach" (cf. M.E. lere, Ger. lehren "to teach;" see lore), and is preserved in the adj. learned "having knowledge gained by study" (c.1340).

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