Word Finder - training

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To practice an ability.

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She trained seven hours a day to prepare for the Olympics.

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To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).

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You can't train a pig to write poetry.

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To improve one's fitness.

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I trained with weights all winter.

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To proceed in sequence.

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To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.

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The assassin had trained his gun on the minister.

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To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.

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The vine had been trained over the pergola.

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To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.

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To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).

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To draw along; to trail; to drag.

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To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.

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Action of the verb to train.

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The activity of imparting and acquiring skills.

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The result of good social upbringing.

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The process by which two modems determine which protocol and speed to use; handshaking.

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(voice recognition) The recording of multiple samples of a user's voice to aid pattern recognition.

Training starts tomorrow morning at dawn.

He touched a few buttons to take it off training mode.

Alex was gentle training her to ride.

He would need all the training he could get in between now and mid-summer, even for that relatively easy tour.

Claire was the closest thing, but she never received the training because her power was too weak.

His second had training for the day.

You kidnap me, trick me into marrying you, dump me here alone without Evelyn or even a pad of paper, with instructions for your sisters to give me behavioral training, and run off to fight some battle somewhere else.

She was close to completing training to become a physical therapist and would graduate at the end of the summer.

Each received a scroll with information on their first day of training and assignments.

Judging by the training program, you've reached my level already.

I had to get her training in hacking fed systems.

He disabled the real-time mechanism, engaged the training program, and returned to the point where battle had been when nishani last adjusted the strategy.

She was strong for a woman as well, which she'd revealed during their two training sessions.

Kiera grimaced and rose, changing slowly before leaving her room for the training area.

She shouldn't have to be tough, and if he hadn't failed his people several sun-cycles before, he'd never think twice about training her for battle.

Thanks a lot for training him to hunt my chickens.

All your fancy training won't … Lana half-listened to Elise's lecture, thinking about how she could hack into her micro with Elise's.

Utilizing the best of his detective training, he deduced she was as deaf as a turnip.

She had not the training for tactics or strategies.

There is also a normal school at Winnipeg for the training of teachers.

One of his Guardians was training the enemy.

He programmed the computer to respond in training cycle mode and glanced at the communication link again.

She followed her friend to a portion of the underground site converted into a massive gym and training facility.

Crouched astride a bike was a great place to think and he surely needed training with his July week in Iowa getting closer all the time.

Colorado-based Coors beer, co­sponsor of the event, was also there with its products readily avail­able, and Dean broke his training diet to share a few Silver Bullets with Fred.

Jonny snapped, referring to the time Xander spent training the Black God to do his job.

Louis, who was the eldest of four children, received from his mother a strict religious training.

The primary and secondary schools of the town are excellent, and there is a small training college for state teachers.

Dispensations, and also the one-year voluntariat, which had become a short cut for the so-called intellectual class to employment in the civil service rather than a means of training reserve officers, were abolished.

Each department is bound to maintain two primary training colleges, one for masters, the other for mistresses of primary schools.

Wales Training Colleges.

But neither temperament nor training allowed her to make her pupil the object of any experiment or observation which did not help in the child's development.

You don't need training - especially not from the people who come up with this fashionable cluttered look.

She shoved the phone in her pocket and forced herself to smile as she faced Jonny, who'd been in training since shortly after she awoke.

The training was part of what Damian wanted her there to do, and she mixed training with good old-fashioned spy techniques.

He watched them, recalling a time he'd overseen the training of all Immortal warriors.

She hadn't protested to his touch during training.

Mr. Tim paid for my education and training.

Even though her ten year class reunion was scheduled for Saturday afternoon, Alex chose that morning to start her training.

Both were two-year-olds in training.

While it was huge and red from the outside, the inside resembled a boxing gym with several rings, training equipment and a wall of mirrors.

The Territorial Army and its reserve (members of which undergo two short periods of training) are, however, allocated to local service.

The chief naval school is the Ecole navale at Brest, which is devoted to the training of officers; the age of admission is from fifteen to eighteen years, and pupils after completing their course pass a year on a frigate school.

At Paris there is a more advanced school (Ecole superieure de la Marine) for the supplementary training of officers.

A friend of the family, Lord Foley, provided the funds for his legal training, and he became a member of Lincoln's Inn on his departure from Oxford, being called to the bar in 1730.

Among institutions are the Battersea Polytechnic, the Royal Masonic Institution for girls, founded in 1788, and Church of England and Wesleyan Training Colleges.

In consequence, in 1908, of 490,000 liable, some I 10,000 actually joined for full training and 24,000 of the new 2nd category for short training, which contrasts very forcibly with the feeble embodiments of i906 and 1907.

The hard but salutary training which they had undergone at his hands had taught them that they were the equals of the northern races both in the council chamber and on the field of battle.

In addition there are training schools for teachers, an episcopal seminary, a conservatoire and an art academy with a fine collection of pictures mainly taken from the religious houses of the city on their suppression in 1795.

The moral training which he received from his grandfather and his mother must have been all but perfect.