To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
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the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
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The act or process of acquiring.
Used in the same subject area: Education, Learning.The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
Used in the same subject area: Education, Learning.The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.
Used in the same subject area: Education, Learning.To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.
Used in the same subject area: Education, Learning.The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion.
Used in the same subject area: Education, Learning.A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
Used in the same subject area: Education, Learning.The act of discerning.
Used in the same subject area: Education, Learning.response to an inquiry or experiment
Used in the same subject area: Education, Learning.The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition.
Used in the same subject area: Education, Learning.gain knowledge or skills; "She learned dancing from her sister"; "I learned Sanskrit"; "Children acquire language at an amazing rate"
Used in the same subject area: Education, Learning.To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in th…
Used in the same subject area: Education, Learning.of Learn
Used in the same subject area: Education, Learning.The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
Used in the same subject area: Education, Learning.The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
Used in the same subject area: Education, Learning.the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
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The science of the structure and functions of the human body.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognitive, condition, understands, virtually, understanding.A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of bui…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognitive, condition, understands, virtually, understanding.To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognitive, condition, understands, virtually, understanding.Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognitive, condition, understands, virtually, understanding.(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognitive, condition, understands, virtually, understanding.(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognitive, condition, understands, virtually, understanding.The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognitive, condition, understands, virtually, understanding.Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognitive, condition, understands, virtually, understanding.Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognitive, condition, understands, virtually, understanding.A recognised phase in how people grow and change.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognitive, condition, understands, virtually, understanding.Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognitive, condition, understands, virtually, understanding.(anthropology) the distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or a social group
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognitive, condition, understands, virtually, understanding.To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognitive, condition, understands, virtually, understanding.The act of facilitating or making easy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognitive, condition, understands, virtually, understanding.One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognitive, condition, understands, virtually, understanding.To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognitive, condition, understands, virtually, understanding.Virtually involved or included; involved in substance; inferential; tacitly conceded; -- the correlative of express, or expressed. See…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: cognitive, condition, understands, virtually, understanding.To infold or involve; to wrap up.
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