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📚 To gain knowledge 📰 To find out 🧠 To memorize 🤖 To train (computer)
to learn

to learn

121 5.8
Make a computer program better by training it with data
  • verb
  • /lɜrn/
  • Specialized
translation icon : aprender
  • If teachers are to experience professional growth, they must learn to evaluate and improve their own teaching.
  • learn to adapt
  • computers learn
  • learn from errors

Otherwise the AI won't learn how to tell nonsense from no nonsense.

Examples

  • So we're trying to learn the PC model.

  • The model will learn to improve its predictions based on the provided data.

  • Much research is still needed to learn how best to apply the computer to instruction.

    Academic text (1993)

  • We cannot give them the ability to learn, to react to the living world around them.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • The more you use it, the more accurately it learns to respond to your needs.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The agent doesn't play against itself, but they learn from expert games.

  • Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who are learning to live without drugs.

    Master Gardener (2023)

  • In the Tri-County area, developers are also learning that smart growth communities are more profitable and sell better.

    Academic text (2008)

  • In addition, the MINDSTORMS software delivers a simple and easy-to-learn programming environment.

    Academic text (2011)

  • With enough training, the AI can learn to identify patterns in user behavior.

Antonyms

to stagnate
19 6.8

To stop growing or changing and stay the same, like water in a pond

Idioms

to learn one's lesson
  • Informal
34 3.4

A person notices they made a mistake and does things differently to avoid it again

to learn the hard way
  • Informal
22 6.0

Find out by going through a difficult or painful experience instead of being warned

to learn the ropes
  • Informal
9 3.4

To begin to understand how to do a job by gaining basic skills

to learn one's place
  • Informal
1 8.2

To accept your position in a group, often lower in status

learn to walk before you can run
  • Informal
4.2

Start with basic skills before trying harder tasks

Phrasal Verbs

to learn the truth
31 3.0

To find out what really happened

How Well

to generalize
  • Specialized
1 5.6
to learn
  • Specialized
121 5.8
to improve
∞ 1.0
to adapt
178 3.2
to train
  • Specialized
5 4.2

Surface Forms

learn infinitive
learned past
learned past participle
learning present participle
learns third person singular

Etymology

Learn is used in computing as a modern use of the old English leornian, which meant 'to get knowledge'. So when a program 'learns' from data, it is like a student getting better by practice and making new patterns part of its 'knowledge'.