TO TRAIN

Definition: TO TRAIN

TO TRAIN

1. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO TRAIN

When I first knew him, your father was already a great pilot, but I was amazed how strongly the Force was with him. I took it upon myself to train him as a Jedi (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan)

Professor Dumbledore has granted me permission to start this little dueling club, to train you all up, in case you ever need to protect yourself, as I myself have done on countless occasions (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; writing credit: Steven Kloves)

How to Train a Dog (1936)

Five Minutes to Train Time (1901)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Quick Clicks, 40 Fast and Fun Behaviors to Train with a Clicker (reference)

• How to Train Your Doberman Pinscher (Tr-107) (reference)

• Being the Best You Can Be in Mlm: How to Train Your Way to the Top in One of the World's Fastest-Growing Industries (reference)

• How to Train Your Golden Retriever (Tr-101) (reference)

• How to Train Your Siberian Husky (Tr-105) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• It's Not the Dog...Training You to Train Your Dog (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Miami, Texas. On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Canadian, Texas and Amarillo, Texas. Rear brakeman running back to train as it gets ready to start again after having taken water. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

In the second half of the cycle, the doses are slowly decreased to zero. This is sometimes followed by a second cycle in which the person continues to train but without drugs. (references)

The project was led by Daniel Kuhn, MSW, and Anna Ortigara, MS, RN, with technical support provided by David Lindeman, PhD. The overall goal of this project was to train staff of retirement communities, assisted living facilities, senior housing developments, and case coordination agencies in the local area in order to identify and meet the needs of elderly residents with AD and related dementias. (references)

Business

Even in hospitals and ambulatory centers that are properly equipped, there is a critical need to train the staff. (references)

Chileans learn quickly and are easy to train, but emphasis must be put on this issue and on the post-sales support. (references)

In September the Ministry of Personnel launched a program to train its supervisors in collective bargaining techniques. (references)

Children

Egypt

A number of NGO's are active in efforts to train and assist persons with disabilities. (references)

Honduras

Casa Alianza continues to train police recruits at the National Police Academy in La Paz department. (references)

Sierra Leone

Although a few private agencies and organizations attempted to train persons with disabilities in useful work, there was no government policy or program directed particularly at persons with disabilities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Turkey

Under existing restrictions, including a citizenship requirement, religious communities remain unable to train new clergy. (references)

China

Official religious organizations administer local religious schools, seminaries, and institutes to train imams, Islamic scholars, and Buddhist monks. (references)

Congo

Although this law restricts the process for official recognition, officially recognized religions are free to establish places of worship and to train clergy. (references)

Economic History

Seychelles

Their primary duty is to train pilots. (references)

Democratic Republic of Congo

The principal objective of this system was to train low-level administrators and clerks. (references)

Mauritius

U.S. manufacturers should be prepared to train local staff to provide efficient servicing. (references)

Human Rights

Hungary

A book on victim protection, used to train policemen and activists, also contains a list of all NGO's that provide protection to victims of crime. (references)

Brazil

The Secretariat also administers or sponsors programs to reduce violence among the poor, to train police officials in human rights practices, and to combat discrimination against blacks, women, children, indigenous people, the elderly, and the disabled. (references)

Ethiopia

Most foreign assistance to train officers and noncommissioned officers was suspended at the same time that the rapid expansion of the military greatly increased the need for trained military lawyers and judges; this suspension in assistance continued during the year. (references)

Minorities

Macedonia

To raise the percentage of ethnic-minority police officers, the Framework Agreement calls on the international community to train 1,000 new ethnic-minority police officers by July 2003, and for the Macedonian police to incorporate these new recruits into ethnically diverse units. (references)

Political Economy

Bhutan

Programs to build a body of written law and to train lawyers are progressing. (references)

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Either a permit is not granted to an official of a company competing with a local firm, or the authorities threaten to not renew a permit because a foreign firm has not done enough to train and promote a Trinidadian into the position. (references)

Trade

Argentina

TDA offered to train air traffic controllers at FAA facilities if a project to modernize the national radar system favors a U.S. supplier. (references)

Travel

Uk

Rail transport in the United Kingdom is extensive, but poor track conditions have contributed to train derailments resulting in some fatalities in recent years. (references)

Women

Yemen

Donor-funded maternal and child health programs attempt to address these issues through programs designed to train midwives who serve rural populations. (references)

Worker Rights

Cameroon

Employers are required to train children between the ages of 14 and 18, and work contracts must contain a training provision for minors. (references)

Ghana

Often an assurance is given that after several years' service, the housemaid would be sponsored to train in dressmaking or hairdressing. (references)

Nepal

There are programs in place to train the police and the MOWCSW works closely with local NGO's to rehabilitate and otherwise assist victims. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "TO TRAIN": To train a gun ♦ To train up. Additional references.

Arabic 

مرن (to train s.o. to), دَرّبَ. (various references)

Asturian

entrenar. (various references)

Bemba

ukusambilisha. (various references)

Cebuano

mobansay. (various references)

Chinese 

�" (example, instruction, pattern, to teach), 練 (to drill, to perfect, to practice), 培養 (culture, to bring up, to groom), 培育 (to breed), 培�" (to cultivate), 培植 (to cultivate). (various references)

Danish

tilride. (various references)

Dutch

africhten (break, tame, train), aanrijden (collide, run). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

yachachina. (various references)

Faeroese

at venja. (various references)

Finnish

valmentaa (train), opettaa (instruct, teach, train), kouluttaa (educate, prick out, train, transplant). (various references)

French

dresser (to straighten, to trim). (various references)

Frisian

trene. (various references)

German

trainieren (coach, exercise, practice, to exercise, to practise, train, train up, work out), zureiten (break in, ride faster, ride on), dressieren (condition, decorate, discipline, dress, prepare, school, tame, teach, train), anlernen (train). (various references)

Greek 

εκγυμνάζω άλογο, εκπαιδεύω άλογο. (various references)

Hungarian

treníroz (to coach), kiképez (bred, drill, to breed, to drill, to front, to hew out, to nuzzle, to train sy for sg, train), képez (to compose, to constitute, to frame, to make up, to slag), előkészít (to do up, to fit, to get up, to make ready, to prepare, to ready). (various references)

Inuktitut

illiniaqtitiluni. (various references)

Italian

domare (bend, break, quell, tame). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鍛える (to discipline, to drill, to forge, to temper). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

したてる (to make, to prepare, to send, to tailor), きたえる (to discipline, to drill, to forge, to temper), しつける (to baste, to be used to a job, to begin to do, to discipline, to plant, to tack, to teach manners), し�"む (to educate, to prepare, to stock, to teach), そ� てあ�'る (to educate, to raise, to rear), つかいならす (to accustom oneself to using, to break in), もむ (to be troubled about, to coach, to crumple, to massage, to rub, to worry over, to wrinkle). (various references)

Kongo

ku-twadikisa. (various references)

Macedonian

trenira. (various references)

Pig Latin

otay aintray.(various references)

Provencal

entrainar. (various references)

Romansch

scolar. (various references)

Spanish

domar (break, break in, bust, tame). (various references)

Swedish

träna (coach, educate, exercise, groom, practice, practise, school, train), rida till, dressera (drill, train). (various references)

exerceo. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aroint, attorn, intort, ration, ratton, triton.

-2 letters: intro, nitro, noria, ottar, ratio, riant, taint, tanto, tarot, titan, train, trait, trona.

-3 letters: airn, airt, anti, inro, into, iota, iron, naoi, noir, nori, nota, rain, rani, rant, rato, riot, roan, rota, roti, tain, tarn, taro, tart, tint, tiro, toit, tora, tori, torn, tort, trio, trot.

+1 letter: antiriot, nitrator, rotating, rotation, strontia, traction.

+2 letters: anorthite, antistory, antitumor, attorning, attrition, carnotite, garotting, important, initiator, iteration, natatoria, natrolite, nitration, nitrators, nonartist, orientate, outrating, partition, protistan, rotations, stationer, striation, strontias, tarnation, throating, titration, tractions, tradition, triathlon.

+3 letters: alteration, anorthites, anorthitic, antierotic, antigrowth, antiproton, attraction, attritions, carnotites, cartoonist, castration, constraint, contradict, corotating, corotation, detraction, eructation, exorbitant, extraction, filtration, flirtation, formatting, frontality, garrotting, initiators, initiatory, instigator, integrator, intolerant, invitatory, irritation, iterations, literation, lustration, marionette, maturation, monetarist, natatorial, natatorium, natrolites, negotiator, nitrations, nonartists, obturating, obturation, orientated, orientates, outstaring, outtrading, partitions, portamenti, protistans, rattooning, recitation, refutation, reputation, retraction, rotational, saturation, starvation, stationary, stationers, stationery, stentorian, striations, tarnations, terminator, thorianite, tinctorial, titrations, tolerating, toleration, torrential, trabeation, tractional, traditions, trajection, transistor, transition, transitory, triathlons, truncation, urtication, ventilator.