different between procure vs learn

English

Etymology

From Old French procurer, from Late Latin pr?c?r?re, present active infinitive of Latin pr?c?r? (“I manage, administer”), from pr? (“on behalf of”) + c?r? (“I care for”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???kj??/, /p???kj??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???kj??/, /p???kj?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

procure (third-person singular simple present procures, present participle procuring, simple past and past participle procured)

1. (transitive) To acquire or obtain.
   • Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill. How these were to be procured, no one was able to imagine.

2. (transitive) To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.
3. (transitive, criminal law) To induce or persuade someone to do something.
4. (obsolete) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.
   • 1551, Ralph Robinson (translator), Thomas More, Utopia

     By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach.

5. (obsolete) To solicit; to entreat.
6. (obsolete) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.

Synonyms

• (acquire): obtain
• (obtain a prostitute): buy, purchase

Related terms

• procurement
• procurer
• procuress
• proxy

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “procure”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• crouper

French

Verb

procure

1. first-person singular present indicative of procurer
2. third-person singular present indicative of procurer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of procurer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of procurer
5. second-person singular imperative of procurer

Italian

Noun

procure f

1. plural of procura

Portuguese

Verb

procure

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of procurar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of procurar
3. first-person singular imperative of procurar
4. third-person singular imperative of procurar

Spanish

Verb

procure

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of procurar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of procurar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of procurar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of procurar.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lûn, IPA^(key): /l??n/
• (General American) enPR: lûrn, IPA^(key): /l?n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Etymology 1

From Middle English lernen, from Old English leornian (“to acquire knowledge”), from Proto-Germanic *liznan?. Cognate with German lernen (“to learn”).

Verb

learn (third-person singular simple present learns, present participle learning, simple past and past participle learned or (chiefly UK) learnt)

1. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Every day I learn more about this great city.

2. To attend a course or other educational activity.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     For, as he took delight to introduce me, I took delight to learn.

3. To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.

4. To study.

5. To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.

Conjugation

Usage notes

• See other, dated and regional, sense of learn below.

Synonyms

• study

Antonyms

• forget
• teach

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

learn (plural learns)

1. The act of learning something

Etymology 2

Possibly related to Middle English leren, from Old English l?ran (“to teach, instruct, indoctrinate”), from Proto-West Germanic *lai?ijan, from Proto-Germanic *laizijan? (“to teach”), from *laiz? (“lore, teaching", literally, "track, trace”), from Proto-Indo-European *leys- (“to track, furrow”).

Cognate with Scots lere, leir, Saterland Frisian leere, West Frisian leare, Dutch leren, German lehren, Swedish lära. See also lear, lore. But normally the Middle English word would give lere, not learn.

Verb

learn (third-person singular simple present learns, present participle learning, simple past and past participle learned or learnt)

1. (now only in non-standard speech and dialects) To teach.

   Give him a clip round the ear. That'll learn him!

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 1

     Sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.

   • circa 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act I Scene 5:

     Have I not been / Thy pupil long? Hast thou not learn’d me how / To make perfumes?

   • 1993, The Simpsons, (18 Feb. 1993) Lisa's thoughts:

     That'll learn him to bust my tomater.

Usage notes

Now often considered non-standard.

Derived terms

• learned

Related terms

• larn
• lore

References

• learn in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• learn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913..
• Family Word Finder, Readers Digest Association Inc. NY 1975

Anagrams

• Laren, Larne, laner, neral, renal

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• learnan (Timau)

Etymology

From Old High German lern?n, lirn?n, from Proto-Germanic *liznan?. Compare German lernen, English learn, Dutch leren.

Verb

learn

1. (Sappada, Sauris) to learn

References

• “learn” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Scots

Etymology

From Old English leornian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?rn/

Verb

learn (third-person singular present learns, present participle learnin, past learnt, past participle learnt)

1. To learn.
2. To teach.