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train⋅ing

[trey-ning]

–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, -ing ¹ , -ing ²

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Language Translation for : Training

Spanish:

entrenamiento,

German:

das Training,

Japanese:

練習

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train (trān) Pronunciation Key
n.

A series of connected railroad cars pulled or pushed by one or more locomotives.
A long line of moving people, animals, or vehicles.
The personnel, vehicles, and equipment following and providing supplies and services to a combat unit.
A part of a gown that trails behind the wearer.
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.
A set of linked mechanical parts: a train of gears.
A string of gunpowder that acts as a fuse for exploding a charge.

v. trained, train·ing, trains

v. tr.

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

v. intr.

To give or undergo a course of training: trained daily for the marathon.
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.

train·ing (trā'nĭng) Pronunciation Key
n.

The process or routine of one who trains.
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.