training
/ˈtɹeɪnɪŋ/ noun A2- Action of the verb to train.
- The activity of imparting and acquiring skills.
- The result of good social upbringing.
- The process by which two modems determine which protocol and speed to use; handshaking.
- The recording of multiple samples of a user's voice to aid pattern recognition.
Plural trainings
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The news of the arrival of the Pharaon had not yet reached the old man, who, mounted on a chair, was amusing himself by training with trembling hand the nasturtiums and sprays of clematis that clambered over the trellis at his window.
Miss Stacy sometimes has us write a story for training in composition, but she won’t let us write anything but what might happen in Avonlea in our own lives, and she criticizes it very sharply and makes us criticize our own too.
The idea of using a form of poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless man who had had an Eastern training.
At ten o’clock I went round and saw that all the fellows had gone to roost, for I believe in strict training and plenty of sleep to keep a team fit.
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