Training
['treɪnɪŋ] or ['trenɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Train
(n.) The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education.
Typist: Steven
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Instruction, teaching, education, drilling, drill, discipline, schooling, breeding, tuition, nurture.
Checker: Rene
Examples
- To talk about training a power, mental or physical, in general, apart from the subject matter involved in its exercise, is nonsense. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The boy, Hexam, was training for and with a schoolmaster. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It'll do you good; it'll freshen you up and get you into training for another turn at the Chancellor. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- These people were people like ourselves, with brains as busy and moody and inconsistent, and with even less training and discipline. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His own good sense taught him that such a training of his servants was unjust and dangerous. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Their training was legal and therefore utterly inadequate, but it was all they had. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Through a process of training which has already made them good citizens they are now to be made good legislators. Plato. The Republic.
- It was not so unlike her father's principles, and her early training, that it need startle her. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- With all possible respect both for Mr. Gradgrind and for Mr. Bounderby, I think I perceive that he has not been fortunate in his training. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The country was taut and excited like an athletic competitor at the end of his training. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In pioneer times, for example, outside occupations gave a definite and valuable intellectual and moral training. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Holmes, however, was always in training, for he had inexhaustible stores of nervous energy upon which to draw. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- So far, however, we are dealing with what may be called training in distinction from educative teaching. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Education as Training of Faculties. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Tarzan of the Apes had a man's figure and a man's brain, but he was an ape by training and environment. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
Checker: Yale