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train·ing       [trey-ning] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
2.the status or condition of a person who has been trained: athletes in top training.
–adjective
3.of, pertaining to, or used in or for training: a training manual.
4.intended for use during an introductory, learning, or transitional period: a training cup for weaning a baby; a training bra.
[Origin: 1400–50; late ME (n.); see train, -ing1, -ing2]

—Synonyms 1. See education.
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train       (trān)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A series of connected railroad cars pulled or pushed by one or more locomotives.
  2. A long line of moving people, animals, or vehicles.
  3. The personnel, vehicles, and equipment following and providing supplies and services to a combat unit.
  4. A part of a gown that trails behind the wearer.
  5. A staff of people following in attendance; a retinue.
    1. An orderly succession of related events or thoughts; a sequence. See Synonyms at series.
    2. A series of consequences wrought by an event; aftermath.
  7. A set of linked mechanical parts: a train of gears.
  8. A string of gunpowder that acts as a fuse for exploding a charge.

v.   trained, train·ing, trains

v.   tr.
  1. To coach in or accustom to a mode of behavior or performance.
  2. To make proficient with specialized instruction and practice. See Synonyms at teach.
  3. To prepare physically, as with a regimen: train athletes for track-and-field competition.
  4. To cause (a plant or one's hair) to take a desired course or shape, as by manipulating.
  5. To focus on or aim at (a goal, mark, or target); direct. See Synonyms at aim.
  6. To let drag behind; trail.

v.   intr.
  1. To give or undergo a course of training: trained daily for the marathon.
  2. To travel by railroad train.


[Middle English, trailing part of a gown, from Old French, from trainer, to drag, from Vulgar Latin *tragīnāre, from *tragere, to pull, back-formation from tractus, past participle of Latin trahere.]

train'a·bil'i·ty n., train'a·ble adj.
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train·ing       (trā'nĭng)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The process or routine of one who trains.
  2. The state of being trained.

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training

noun
1. activity leading to skilled behavior 
2. the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); "a woman of breeding and refinement" [syn: education] 

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Training

Train"ing\, n. The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education.

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.

Syn: See Education.

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