different between learning vs literature
learning
English
Alternative forms
- learnyng (obsolete)
Etymology
Corresponding to learn +? -ing, from Middle English lerninge, used in all modern senses (act of learning; accumulated knowledge; thing learned).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?l?n??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?l??n??/
- Hyphenation: learn?ing
- Rhymes: -??(?)n??
Noun
learning (usually uncountable, plural learnings)
- (uncountable) An act in which something is learned.
- (uncountable) Accumulated knowledge.
- The department head was also a scholar of great learning.
- (countable) Something that has been learned
Usage notes
- Countable sense “thing learned” often used in plural form learnings; see learnings: Usage notes for details.
Hyponyms
- game-based learning
- higher learning
Derived terms
- book-learning
- deep learning
- machine learning
- self-learning
Related terms
- learning by doing
- learning curve
- learning disability
Translations
Verb
learning
- present participle of learn
- I'm learning to ride a unicycle.
See also
- Pierian spring
References
- learning on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- langerin, relaning
learning From the web:
- what learning style am i
- what learning disability
- what learning disability do i have
- what learning styles are there
- what learning disabilities are there
- what learning theory is direct instruction
- what learning style is hands on
- what learning style enjoys reading
literature
English
Wikiquote
Wikisource
Wikibooks
Alternative forms
- literatuer (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English literature, from Old French littérature, from Latin literatura or litteratura, from littera (“letter”), from Etruscan, from Ancient Greek ??????? (diphthér?, “tablet”). Displaced native Old English b?ccræft.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l?.t?.??.t??(?)/, /?l?.t??.t??(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?l?.t?.?.t??/, /?l?.t?.?.t??/, /?l?.t???.t??/, /?l?.t?.t??/
- (Midwestern US) IPA(key): /?l?.t?.t??/
Noun
literature (usually uncountable, plural literatures)
- The body of all written works.
- The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
- (usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
- The obvious question to ask at this point is: ‘Why posit the existence of a set of Thematic Relations (THEME, AGENT, INSTRUMENT, etc.) distinct from constituent structure relations?? The answer given in the relevant literature is that a variety of linguistic phenomena can be accounted for in a more principled way in terms of Thematic Functions than in terms of constituent structure relations.
- Written fiction of a high standard.
- However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature, because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008
Derived terms
Meronyms
- See also Thesaurus:literature
Related terms
- letter
- literal
- literacy
- literate
- literary
Translations
Further reading
- "literature" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 183.
Anagrams
- literateur, literatuer
literature From the web:
- what literature did montag preserve
- what literature means
- what literature style replaced romanticism
- what literature was popular in the 1920s
- what literature can teach us
- what literature means to me
- what literary device is this
- what literature is in the public domain
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