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English

Pronunciation

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Verb form

training


Noun

training

  1. action of the verb to train.
  2. the activity of imparting and acquiring skills.
  3. the result of good social upbringing.
  4. the process by which two modems determine which protocol and speed to use; handshaking.
  5. (voice recognition) the recording of multiple samples of a user's voice to aid pattern recognition.


Translations

fa:training fr:training ko:training io:training id:training it:training hu:training nl:training ja:training ta:training vi:training

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Train \Train\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trained; p. pr. & vb. n.
Training.] [OF. trahiner, tra["i]ner,F. tra[^i]ner, LL.
trahinare, trainare, fr. L. trahere to draw. See Trail.]
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1. To draw along; to trail; to drag.
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In hollow cube
Training his devilish enginery. --Milton.
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2. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract
by stratagem; to entice; to allure. [Obs.]
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If but a dozen French
Were there in arms, they would be as a call
To train ten thousand English to their side. --Shak.
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O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note.
--Shak.
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This feast, I'll gage my life,
Is but a plot to train you to your ruin. --Ford.
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3. To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to
discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual
exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms.
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Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most
proper strength of a free nation. --Milton.
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The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train.
--Dryden.
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4. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
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5. (Hort.) To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier;
to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or
pruning; as, to train young trees.
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He trained the young branches to the right hand or
to the left. --Jeffrey.
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6. (Mining) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to
its head.
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To train a gun (Mil. & Naut.), to point it at some object
either forward or else abaft the beam, that is, not
directly on the side. --Totten.

To train, or To train up, to educate; to teach; to form
by instruction or practice; to bring up.
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Train up a child in the way he should go; and when
he is old, he will not depart from it. --Prov. xxii.
6.
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The first Christians were, by great hardships,
trained up for glory. --Tillotson.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Training \Train"ing\, n.
The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising,
disciplining, etc.; education.
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Fan training (Hort.), the operation of training fruit
trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall
radiate from the stem like a fan.

Horizontal training (Hort.), the operation of training
fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall
spread out laterally in a horizontal direction.

Training college. See Normal school, under Normal, a.


Training day, a day on which a military company assembles
for drill or parade. [U. S.]

Training ship, a vessel on board of which boys are trained
as sailors.
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Syn: See Education.
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WordNet training
n 1: activity leading to skilled behavior [syn: preparation, grooming]
2: the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of
correct social behavior); "a woman of breeding and
refinement" [syn: education, breeding]
Moby Dictionary
acclimation , acclimatization , accommodation , accustoming , adaption ,
adjustment , apprenticeship , arrangement , basic training , breaking ,
breaking-in , breeding , briefing , case hardening ,
clearing the decks , conditioning , cultivation , development ,
discipline , domestication , drill , drilling , equipment , exercise ,
familiarization , fetching-up , fixing , fostering , foundation ,
grooming , groundwork , habituation , hardening , housebreaking ,
improvement , in-service training , instruction , inurement ,
makeready , making ready , manual training , manufacture ,
military training , mobilization , naturalization , nurture ,
nurturing , on-the-job training , orientation , planning , practice ,
prearrangement , preliminaries , preliminary , preliminary act ,
preliminary step , prep , preparation , preparatory study , preparing ,
prepping , prerequisite , pretreatment , processing , propaedeutic ,
provision , raising , readying , rearing , rehearsal , schooling ,
seasoning , sloyd , spadework , taming , teaching , treatment , trial ,
tryout , tuition , tutelage , upbringing , vocational education ,
vocational training , warm-up


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