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Webster 1913 Edition


Training

Train′ing

,
Noun.
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
,
Adj.
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
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Training

TRA'INING

,
ppr.
Drawing; alluring; educating; teaching and forming by practice.

TRA'INING

,
Noun.
The act or process of drawing or educating; education. In gardening, the operation or art of forming young trees to a wall or espalier, or of causing them to grow in a shape suitable for that end.

Definition 2024


Training

Training

See also: training, lessons, and classes

German

Noun

Training n (genitive Trainings, plural Trainings)

  1. training (exercise, chiefly physical)

Declension

Syonyms

Derived terms

  • Höhentraining
  • Trainingseinheit
  • Trainingslager
  • Zirkeltraining

Related terms

training

training

See also: Training

English

Verb

training

  1. present participle of train

Noun

training (plural trainings)

  1. Action of the verb to train. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. The activity of imparting and acquiring skills.
    • 2012 January 1, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 60:
      Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
  3. The result of good social upbringing.
  4. (computing) 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.

Usage notes

  • The plural trainings, for more than one training session, is not often used.

Derived terms

Translations

See also: lessons
See also: classes

Spanish

Noun

training m (plural trainings)

  1. training