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▪ And that granite obelisk is the Bunker Hill Monument which you will have learnt about in school.
▪ By other forms of reproduction an image may be more or less degraded, so that nothing can be learnt from them.
▪ Never an elitist, she wanted to democratise photographic practice, and share all she had learnt.
▪ Once scornful of cable companies, telephone firms have learnt that they can be useful.
▪ One of his owners was an alchemist, whose secrets he seems to have learnt.
▪ Since then, much has been learnt about the structure and properties of proteins and about the active sites of enzymes.
▪ We learnt a few lessons on how we could have improved it but we felt very pleased with it as our first attempt.
▪ You learnt about yourself, too.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Learnt

Learn \Learn\ (l[~e]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Learned (l[~e]rnd), or Learnt (l[~e]rnt); p. pr. & vb. n. Learning.] [OE. lernen, leornen, AS. leornian; akin to OS. lin[=o]n, for lirn[=o]n, OHG. lirn[=e]n, lern[=e]n, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l[=ae]ran to teach, OS. l[=e]rian, OHG. l[=e]ran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted (in comp.); all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf. AS. leoran to go. Cf. Last a mold of the foot, lore.]

  1. To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acquire understanding of, or skill; as, to learn the way; to learn a lesson; to learn dancing; to learn to skate; to learn the violin; to learn the truth about something. ``Learn to do well.''
    --Is. i. 17.

    Now learn a parable of the fig tree.
    --Matt. xxiv. 3

  2. 2. To communicate knowledge to; to teach. [Obs.]

    Hast thou not learned me how To make perfumes ?
    --Shak.

    Note: Learn formerly had also the sense of teach, in accordance with the analogy of the French and other languages, and hence we find it with this sense in Shakespeare, Spenser, and other old writers. This usage has now passed away. To learn is to receive instruction, and to teach is to give instruction. He who is taught learns, not he who teaches.

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learnt

vb. 1 (context British New England AAVE Ireland Australia New Zealand alternative in Canada English) (en-simple past of: learn) 2 (context UK New England AAVE Ireland Australia New Zealand alternative in Canada English) (past participle of learn English)

WordNet
learn

  1. v. acquire or gain knowledge or skills; "She learned dancing from her sister"; "I learned Sanskrit"; "Children acquire language at an amazing rate" [syn: larn, acquire]

  2. get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted" [syn: hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see]

  3. commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?" [syn: memorize, memorise, con]

  4. be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the bar exam" [syn: study, read, take]

  5. impart skills or knowledge to; "I taught them French"; "He instructed me in building a boat" [syn: teach, instruct]

  6. find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "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" [syn: determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch]

  7. [also: learnt]

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Usage examples of "learnt".

This applies in quite a special degree to the manipulations to which man, led by his death-bound consciousness, has learnt to submit matter in his laboratories.

For speech depends upon an inner, intelligent human activity, which, once learnt, becomes a lasting part of man's being, quite outside the realm of his philosophizing consciousness, and yet forming an indispensable instrument for this consciousness.

Even though this too may have first been learnt through outer observation, yet it remains true that for the discovery of the fact expressed by it - valid for all plane triangles - no outer experience is needed.

Thus the event that gave science its first foundations is an occurrence in man himself of precisely the same character as the one which we have learnt to regard as necessary for building science's new foundations.

A thinking that has learnt to acknowledge the existence of levity must indeed pursue precisely the opposite direction.

This indeed is in accord with the distribution in the organism of the sulphur-salt polarity, as we learnt from our physiological and psychological studies.

Besides this kind of assimilation we have learnt to recognize a higher form which we called 'spiritual assimilation'.

Thus he had learnt from the macro-telluric realm that with decreasing density of the corporeal medium, the blue sky takes on ever deeper tones, while with increasing density of the medium, the yellow of the sunlight passes over into orange and finally red.

Yet in an optics which has learnt to reckon with both darkness and light as generators of colour, the complete spectrum phenomenon includes this colour equally with green.

Ruskin's 'light', however, is what we have learnt with Goethe to call 'colour', whereas that for which we reserve the term 'light' is called by him simply 'force'.

This tells us, in accordance with what we have learnt earlier, that in the two cases there is a different relation of space to the cosmically distant, all-embracing plane.

Since Lord Rayleigh first discussed this matter in the eighties of the last century, physicists have learnt to distinguish between the 'wave-velocity' of the light itself and the velocity of an 'impressed peculiarity', the so-called 'group-velocity', and it has been acknowledged that only the latter has been, and can be, directly measured.

In the preceding chapter we learnt that the earth's field of gravity offers a definite resistance to our visual ray.

In Chapter XII we learnt to distinguish the material happenings at the two poles of the secondary polarity by observing their appearance in the plant as 'sublimation', on the one hand, and 'assimilation' on the other.

After what we have learnt in regard to these three, we may assume that the path leading to this third stage consists in producing a condition of wide-awake, tranquil contemplation in the very region where the I is wont to unfold its highest degree of initiative on the lowest level of consciousness.