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Roget-categorie 539

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
4.9. Modes of communication
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#539. Learning

zelfstandig naamwoord

learningacquisition of knowledge etc. 490, acquisition of skill etc. 698acquirement, attainmentedification, scholarship, eruditionacquired knowledge, lore, wide information self-instructionstudy, reading, perusalinquiry etc. 451.
apprenticeship, prenticeshippupilage, pupilaritytutelage, novitiate, matriculation.
docility etc. (willingness) 602aptitude etc. 698.

werkwoord

learnacquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take in knowledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge, gather knowledge, get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge, glean knowledge, glean information, glean learning.
acquaint oneself with, mastermake oneself master of, make oneself acquainted withgrind, cramget up, coach uplearn by heart, learn by rote.
read, spell, perusecon over, pore over, thumb overwade throughdip intorun the eye over, run the eye throughturn over the leaves.
studybe studious etc. adj.. [study intensely] burn the midnight oil, consume the midnight oil, mind one's bookcram.
go to school, go to college, go to the universitymatriculateserve an apprenticeship, serve one's apprenticeship, serve one's timelearn one's tradebe informed etc. 527be taught etc. 537.
[stop going to school voluntarily (intransitive)] drop out, leave school, quit schoolgraduatetransfertake a leave.
[cause to stop going to school (transitive)] dismiss, expel, kick out of school.
[stop going to school involuntarily] flunk outbe dismissed etc.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

studiousscholastic, scholarlyteachabledocile etc. (willing) 602apt etc. 698, industrious etc. 682.

bijwoord

at one's booksin statu pupillari [Lat.] etc. (learner) 541.

uitdrukking

a lumber-house of books in every head" [Pope]; ancora imparo! [Lat.]hold high converse with the mighty dead" [Thomson]; lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod" [Gay].

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