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LEARNING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge
Example:
the child's acquisition of language
Synonyms:
acquisition; learning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("learning" is a kind of...):
basic cognitive process (cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "learning"):
conditioning (a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment)
developmental learning (learning that takes place as a normal part of cognitive development)
digestion (learning and coming to understand ideas and information)
education (the gradual process of acquiring knowledge)
incorporation; internalisation; internalization (learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself)
imprinting (a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established)
language learning (learning to use a language)
committal to memory; memorisation; memorization (learning so as to be able to remember verbatim)
study; work (applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading))
carry-over; transfer; transfer of training (application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Profound scholarly knowledge
Synonyms:
encyclopaedism; encyclopedism; eruditeness; erudition; learnedness; learning; scholarship
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("learning" is a kind of...):
education (knowledge acquired by learning and instruction)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "learning"):
letters (scholarly attainment)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb learn
Context examples:
I know very well, how little reputation is to be got by writings which require neither genius nor learning, nor indeed any other talent, except a good memory, or an exact journal.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
"I hope I am learning to talk," he stammered.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The mental process of knowing, thinking, learning and judging; the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning.
(Cognition, NCI Thesaurus)
The mental process of thinking, learning, remembering, being aware of surroundings, and using judgment.
(Cognition, NCI Dictionary)
I had the advantage of learning which was which last night.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Using a machine learning technique, the team found a combination of biomarkers that predicted the diagnosis correctly in 70% of cases and the stage with 69% accuracy.
(Biomarker Signatures of Prostate Cancer, NIH)
This version is modified from A. Rey in 1964 and is used to evaluate verbal learning and memory abilities in both children and adults.
(Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Auditory Verbal Learning Test Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)
Immune responses to fungi are similar across vertebrates, and many animals are capable of learning to avoid natural enemies.
(Amphibians can acquire resistance to deadly fungus, NSF)
But I was learning, I was learning.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The team used a combination of machine learning and a whole blood assay known as qPCR – a relatively simple tool – to identify genetic signatures that re-created the two subgroups from their previous study.
(New prognostic test could enable personalised treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, University of Cambridge)
