Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process or routine of one who trains.
- noun The state of being trained.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Practical education in some profession, art, handicraft, or the like; instruction coupled with practice in the use of one's powers: as, manual training; a sound business training.
- noun The act or process of developing the physical strength and powers of endurance, or of rendering the system capable of performing some notable feat; also, the condition of being so prepared and capable.
- noun In gardening, the art or operation of forming young trees to a wall or espalier, or of causing them to grow in a desired shape.
- noun Drill; practice in the manual of arms and in simple manœuvers, such as is provided for militia. Compare train-band, training-day.
- noun Synonyms Nurture, Education, etc. (see
instruction ); drill, schooling, breeding, tuition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education.
- noun (Hort.) the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan.
- noun (Hort.) the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall spread out laterally in a horizontal direction.
- noun See Normal school, under
Normal , a. - noun [U. S.] a day on which a military company assembles for drill or parade.
- noun a vessel on board of which boys are trained as sailors.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
train . - noun
action of the verb totrain . - noun the activity of
imparting andacquiring skills . - noun the result of good
social upbringing . - noun computing the process by which two
modems determine whichprotocol andspeed to use;handshaking . - noun the
recording ofmultiple samples of auser 'svoice to aidpattern recognition .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
- noun activity leading to skilled behavior
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Examples
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In other words, having felt their early training to be mere _training_, the moment they strip off the constraint, they plunge into the opposite extreme of _no_ constraint.
Humanity in the City 1847
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But in that nobility men need training, -- _scientific training_.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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_thorough training_ to some special end, and a willingness to share the training of men both for specific and moral reasons.
A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor" A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia Caroline Healey Dall 1865
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Oh, and “died in training is close enough for me.”
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The ongoing tales of the 51 superhero teams in training is chock full of everything I love in a monthly: suspense, action, great artwork, interesting characters, and a little bit of comedy for good measure.
PULL LIST: SUMMER EDITION « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2008
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The idea of superhero kids in training is cool because it gives ample time to show a variety of super powers.
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The doula in training is the woman who I contacted on Craigslist about a stroller a few weeks back.
sometimes it's a very very small town ScienceWoman 2006
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The doula in training is a PhD student who works in the next building.
sometimes it's a very very small town ScienceWoman 2006
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The doula in training is a PhD student who works in the next building.
Archive 2006-11-01 ScienceWoman 2006
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The doula in training is the woman who I contacted on Craigslist about a stroller a few weeks back.
Archive 2006-11-01 ScienceWoman 2006
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You can also look at a game and choose not to treat it as one, and then it might turn into real work (this is often called “training”).
Game design is simple, actually Noah Falstein 2025
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