(v. t.) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head.
(v. i.) To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company.
(v. i.) To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.
(v.) That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement.
(v.) Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare.
(v.) That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear.
(v.) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.
(v.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.
(v.) The tail of a bird.
(v.) A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite.
(v.) A consecution or succession of connected things; a series.
(v.) Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement.
(v.) The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
(v.) A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.
(v.) A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad.
(v.) A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.
(v.) A roll train; as, a 12-inch train.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
(3) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
(4) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(5) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(6) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(7) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
(8) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
(9) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(10) Consequently, the present data indicate that training-induced changes in the CS-evoked activity of PFCm cells are significantly related to aversively conditioned bradycardia in rabbits.
(11) Thus, brain NE levels after training were not predictive of retention performance in amygdala-implanted or -stimulated animals.
(12) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
(13) Before training, SV at VO2max was 9% lower than during exercise at 50% VO2max (P less than 0.05).
(14) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
(15) Participants were selected from existing classes forming a weight training, aerobic exercise and activity control group.
(16) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
(17) Little difference exists between the proportion of programs that offer training in first-trimester techniques and the proportion that train in second-trimester techniques.
(18) There was no significant correlation between mitochondrial volume and number of SO fibers following endurance exercise training.
(19) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
(20) Neuromuscular transmission was measured using "train-of-four" stimulation.
Trainable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue.
Example Sentences:
(1) The personnel selected for a dosing service need not have advanced pharmacy degrees but must be highly trainable.
(2) Finally, she says: “I’m un-media-trainable.” Recently, Gould found herself giving advice to a friend whose insecurities resembled her own.
(3) The purpose of the present study was to determine whether the fast-twitch (FT) fiber composition in muscle was a) correlated with performance capacities, b) related to the trainability of the subjects, and c) whether the FT fiber composition could be predicted with standard laboratory tests.
(4) Further evaluations should be carried out to discover to what degree scoliotic patients are trainable without increasing the danger of pulmonary vascular obstruction.
(5) Behaviour patterns such as temperament, aggressiveness, and nervousness showed relatively high h2-values; other behaviours like trainability, emotionality, and pre-laying showed relatively low values.
(6) Forty trainable and 40 educable retarded adolescents were shown slides containing arrays of 2, 3, 4, or 5 chromatic pictures to be recalled after varying periods (0, 18, 36, and 140 sec) of filled or unfilled activity.
(7) Experiments involving chronic introduction of ethanol (36 per cent of caloric value) as a part of a specially devised liquid ration demonstrated the trainability of rats to sharply decrease, their antistress resistance to significantly decline, especially in rats kept on a low-protein diet.
(8) The trainability of endurance seems to depend on the biological maturity level of growing children.
(9) Existing literature also does not clearly support a relationship between training intensity and the degree of cardiac enlargement, or changes in the heart's trainability with age.
(10) During the most stressful training weeks of prolonged strength training the level of biologically active unbound testosterone as well as the balance between the androgenic-anabolic activity and the catabolizing effect of glucocorticoids may be of great importance for the trainability of muscular strength.
(11) These observations together with the findings about the specific effects of heavy resistance strength and power training on the neuromuscular performance may also have some implications for the more accurate determination of the trainability status of an individual athlete at a given time in order to optimize the training process.
(12) It is shown that, using online real-time analysis, differences in the AR time-series parameters can be observed for different trainable patterns of muscle activation, at the same electrode location, even at the same ME power levels, as long as considerable cross-talk exists at the electrode site.
(13) The results indicate that visual field increases are not trainable.
(14) It can be concluded that in training for fast force production considerable neural and selective muscular adaptations may occur to explain the improvement in performance, but that genetic factors may determine the ultimate potential of the trainability of this aspect of the neuromuscular performance.
(15) Trainable retarded subjects had fewer hypotheses, and initially chose position hypotheses predominantly.
(16) Even fewer results are available on the trainability of anaerobic capacity.
(17) The children classed as educable produced more correct responses than those termed trainable for declarative, question, and single-adjectival structures.
(18) The moral judgment of 135 normal, educable retarded, and trainable retarded boys and girls (ages 6-10, 11-13, and 14-16) was individually assessed to determine the significance of chronological age and IQ on moral development.
(19) This study investigated the effectiveness of three instruments to discriminate autistic from trainable mentally retarded children.
(20) The auditory skill known as 'absolute pitch' is discussed, and it is shown that this differs greatly in accuracy of identification or reproduction of musical tones from ordinary discrimination of 'tonal height' which is to some extent trainable.