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]

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.]
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   1. To draw along; to trail; to drag.
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            In hollow cube
            Training his devilish enginery.       --Milton.
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   2. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract
      by stratagem; to entice; to allure. [Obs.]
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            If but a dozen French
            Were there in arms, they would be as a call
            To train ten thousand English to their side. --Shak.
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            O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note.
                                                  --Shak.
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            This feast, I'll gage my life,
            Is but a plot to train you to your ruin. --Ford.
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   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.
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            Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most
            proper strength of a free nation.     --Milton.
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            The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   4. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
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   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.
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            He trained the young branches to the right hand or
            to the left.                          --Jeffrey.
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   6. (Mining) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to
      its head.
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   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.
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            Train up a child in the way he should go; and when
            he is old, he will not depart from it. --Prov. xxii.
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            The first Christians were, by great hardships,
            trained up for glory.                 --Tillotson.
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Training \Train"ing\, n.
   The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising,
   disciplining, etc.; education.
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   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.
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   Syn: See Education.
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