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De - Pt| English Dictionary: TRAINING | by the DICT Development Group |
| 3 results for TRAINING | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Train \Train\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trained}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Training}.] [OF. trahiner, tra[8b]ner,F. tra[8c]ner, LL. trahinare, trainare, fr. L. trahere to draw. See {Trail}.] 1. To draw along; to trail; to drag. In hollow cube Training his devilish enginery. --Milton. 2. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure. [Obs.] If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call To train ten thousand English to their side. --Shak. O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note. --Shak. This feast, I'll gage my life, Is but a plot to train you to your ruin. --Ford. 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. Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation. --Milton. The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train. --Dryden. 4. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen. 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. He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left. --Jeffrey. 6. (Mining) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head. {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. Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. --Prov. xxii. 6. The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory. --Tillotson. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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}. | |
