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Training   /trˈeɪnɪŋ/   Listen
Training

noun
1.
Activity leading to skilled behavior.  Synonyms: grooming, preparation.
2.
The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior).  Synonyms: breeding, education.


Train

verb
(past & past part. trained; pres. part. training)
1.
Create by training and teaching.  Synonyms: develop, educate, prepare.  "We develop the leaders for the future"
2.
Undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession.  Synonym: prepare.  "He trained as a legal aid"
3.
Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control.  Synonyms: check, condition, discipline.  "Is this dog trained?"
4.
Educate for a future role or function.  Synonyms: groom, prepare.  "The prince was prepared to become King one day" , "They trained him to be a warrior"
5.
Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment.  Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, school.  "Train your tastebuds" , "She is well schooled in poetry"
6.
Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards.  Synonyms: aim, direct, take, take aim.  "He trained his gun on the burglar" , "Don't train your camera on the women" , "Take a swipe at one's opponent"
7.
Teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports.  Synonym: coach.  "She is coaching the crew"
8.
Exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition.
9.
Cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it.
10.
Travel by rail or train.  Synonym: rail.  "She trained to Hamburg"
11.
Drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground.  Synonym: trail.  "She trained her long scarf behind her"



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"Training" Quotes from Famous Books



... experience and not enough to suffer severely. The enrolling of West Indians was pleasanter. The wives of locomotive engineers and steam-shovel cranemen were not infrequently supercilious ladies who resented being disturbed during their "social functions" and lacked the training in politeness of Jamaican "mammies." Living in Paradise now under a paternal all-providing government, they seemed to have forgotten the rolling-pin days of the past. It was here in Paraiso that I first encountered that strange, that wondrous strange custom of lying about one's age. Negro ...
— Zone Policeman 88 - A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers • Harry A. Franck
... which is said to hand down from generation to generation, ever more firmly established, the individual habits of those who come before, the Megachiles of these parts, experienced in the local flora by the long training of the centuries, but complete novices in the presence of plants which their race encounters for the first time, ought to refuse as unusual and suspicious any exotic leaves, especially when they have at hand plenty of the leaves made familiar by hereditary custom. The question was deserving ...
— Bramble-bees and Others • J. Henri Fabre
... be untrue, from any other point of view perhaps than that of a New Englander bred in the country. The rural population of New England is still, happily for itself, tinctured in all its language, habits, modes of feeling and thought, by a strict Scriptural training—"Out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh." Look below the surface and you will see that there is no irreverence whatever beneath Hosea Biglow's daring use of Scripture; only that "perfect love which ...
— The Biglow Papers • James Russell Lowell
... quicker; and the sweat rolled off their faces as they ran across the rough prairie sward, up and down the long inclines, now and then shifting their heavy rifles from one shoulder to the other. But they were in good training, and they did not have to halt. At last they reached stretches of bare ground, sun-baked and grassless, where the trail grew dim; and here they had to go very slowly, carefully examining the faint dents and marks ...
— Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches • Theodore Roosevelt
... question of the church. Go to them! To the association is due the fact that thousands of laymen are to-day proclaiming the gospel in all parts of the world, successful through their simple study of the Word and the encouragement and training which they have received ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 5, May, 1884 - A Massachusetts Magazine • Various


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