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Date "UNLEARNING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Negative learning phase during which the system randomly samples states according to their Boltzmann distribution and Hebbian learning occurs with a negative coefficient. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | We are unlearning certain things, and we do well, provided that while unlearning one thing we are learning another. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Many of the currently popular therapy programs for persistent stuttering focus on relearning how to speak or unlearning faulty ways of speaking. (references) | |
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| "UNLEARNING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "UNLEARNING" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "UNLEARNING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | aflæring (reverse learning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | omgekeerd leren (reverse learning), afleren (break of a habit, break oneself of a habit, forget, get out of a habit, teach, unlearn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | opitun unohtaminen (reverse learning), käänteinen oppiminen (reverse learning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | désapprentissage, apprentissage inversé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verlernend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αντίστροφη εκμάθηση (reverse learning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | apprendimento inverso (reverse learning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | earningunlay desaprendizagem (reverse learning), aprendizagem inversa (reverse learning). (various references) desaprendizaje (reverse learning), aprendizaje inverso (reverse learning). (various references) avlärning (reverse learning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"UNLEARNING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unalarming. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-n-n-r-u" | |
-2 letters: learning, ungenial. | |
-3 letters: aginner, aligner, aneling, aneurin, anguine, eanling, earning, engrail, engrain, enuring, grannie, granule, guanine, leaning, linguae, nargile, nearing, nurling, realign, reginal, running, unagile, unlearn. | |
-4 letters: aliner, angler, annuli, earing, gainer, genial, ginner, glaire, gluier, guanin, guinea, gunnel, gunnen, gunner, inaner, lagune, langue, langur, lanner, larine, ligure, linage, linear, linger, lingua, lungan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-n-n-r-u" | |
+3 letters: nonregulation, unreasoningly. | |
+4 letters: nonregulations. | |
+5 letters: understandingly. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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