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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. activity leading to skilled behavior;
[syn: training, preparation, grooming]

2. the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior);
- Example: "a woman of breeding and refinement"
[syn: education, training, breeding]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Train \Train\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trained; p. pr. & vb. n. Training.] [OF. trahiner, tra["i]ner,F. tra[^i]ner, LL. trahinare, trainare, fr. L. trahere to draw. See Trail.] [1913 Webster] 1. To draw along; to trail; to drag. [1913 Webster] In hollow cube Training his devilish enginery. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call To train ten thousand English to their side. --Shak. [1913 Webster] O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note. --Shak. [1913 Webster] This feast, I'll gage my life, Is but a plot to train you to your ruin. --Ford. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation. --Milton. [1913 Webster] The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left. --Jeffrey. [1913 Webster] 6. (Mining) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. --Prov. xxii. 6. [1913 Webster] The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Training \Train"ing\, n. The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Syn: See Education. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

training n 1: activity leading to skilled behavior [syn: training, preparation, grooming] 2: the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); "a woman of breeding and refinement" [syn: education, training, breeding]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

85 Moby Thesaurus words for "training": acclimation, acclimatization, accommodation, accustoming, adaption, adjustment, apprenticeship, arrangement, basic training, breaking, breaking-in, breeding, briefing, case hardening, clearing the decks, conditioning, cultivation, development, discipline, domestication, drill, drilling, equipment, exercise, familiarization, fetching-up, fixing, fostering, foundation, grooming, groundwork, habituation, hardening, housebreaking, improvement, in-service training, instruction, inurement, makeready, making ready, manual training, manufacture, military training, mobilization, naturalization, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training, orientation, planning, practice, prearrangement, preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary act, preliminary step, prep, preparation, preparatory study, preparing, prepping, prerequisite, pretreatment, processing, propaedeutic, provision, raising, readying, rearing, rehearsal, schooling, seasoning, sloyd, spadework, taming, teaching, treatment, trial, tryout, tuition, tutelage, upbringing, vocational education, vocational training, warm-up