training

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English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɹeɪnɪŋ/
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  • Hyphenation: train‧ing
  • Rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ

Verb[edit]

training

  1. present participle and gerund of train

Noun[edit]

training (usually uncountable, plural trainings)

English Wikipedia has an article on:
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  1. Action of the verb to train. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. The activity of imparting and acquiring skills.
    • 2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, page 60:
      Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
  3. The result of good social upbringing.
  4. (computing) The process by which two modems determine which protocol and speed to use; handshaking.
  5. (voice recognition) The recording of multiple samples of a user's voice to aid pattern recognition.

Usage notes[edit]

  • The plural trainings, for more than one training session, is not often used.

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

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Anagrams[edit]

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English training.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

training f (plural trainingen, diminutive traininkje n)

  1. training (imparting or acquisition of skills, esp. in exercise and sports, also in chiefly extracurricular education)
  2. a training session

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • training” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English training.

Noun[edit]

training n (plural traininguri)

  1. training

Declension[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English training.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

training m (plural trainings)

  1. training

Usage notes[edit]

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.