'Training' definitions:

Definition of 'training'

From: WordNet
noun
Activity leading to skilled behavior [syn: training, preparation, grooming]
noun
The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); "a woman of breeding and refinement" [syn: education, training, breeding]

Definition of 'Training'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]

Definition of 'Training'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]