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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Train \Train\, verb (used with an object) [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}.]
1. To draw along; to trail; to drag.
In hollow cube Training his devilish enginery. --Milton.
2. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure. [Obs.]
If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call To train ten thousand English to their side. --Shak.
O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note. --Shak.
This feast, I'll gage my life, Is but a plot to train you to your ruin. --Ford.
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.
Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation. --Milton.
The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train. --Dryden.
4. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
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.
He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left. --Jeffrey.
6. (Mining) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head.
{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.
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. --Prov. xxii. 6.
The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory. --Tillotson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
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}, adjective
{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}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
training
noun
1: activity leading to skilled behavior [syn: {preparation}, {grooming}]
2: the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); "a woman of breeding and refinement" [syn: {education}, {breeding}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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