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• badly trained staff
• they train dogs to sniff out drugs.
• he trained as a teacher before becoming an actor.
• all members of the team have trained in first aid.

train

1. to teach a person or an animal the skills for a particular job or activity; to be taught in this way
• badly trained staff
• They train dogs to sniff out drugs.
• He trained as a teacher before becoming an actor.
• All members of the team have trained in first aid.
• Sue is training to be a doctor.
2. to prepare yourself/somebody for a particular activity, especially a sport, by doing a lot of exercise; to prepare a person or an animal in this way
• athletes training for the Olympics
• I train in the gym for two hours a day.
• She trains horses.
• He trains the Olympic team.
3. to develop a natural ability or quality so that it improves
• An expert with a trained eye will spot the difference immediately.
• You can train your mind to think positively.
4. to make a plant grow in a particular direction
• Roses had been trained around the door.

Extra Examples

• He’s been training seriously for over a year now.
• The team is training hard for the big match.
• All members of the team have been trained in first aid.
• I was impressed by the well trained staff.
• We watched the athletes training for the Olympics.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they train
• he / she / it trains
• past simple trained
• past participle trained
• -ing form training

Word Origin

• Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘delay’): from Old French train (masculine), traine (feminine), from trahiner (verb), from Latin trahere ‘pull, draw’. Early noun senses were ‘trailing part of a robe’ and ‘retinue’; the latter gave rise to ‘line of travelling people or vehicles’, later ‘a connected series of things’. The early verb sense ‘cause a plant to grow in a desired shape’ was the basis of the sense ‘instruct’.