trained
adjective
[ treɪnd ]
• having been taught a particular skill or type of behaviour through practice and instruction over a period of time.
• "the first officer was also a trained pilot"
train
verb
• teach (a person or animal) a particular skill or type of behaviour through practice and instruction over a period of time.
• "the scheme trains people for promotion"
Similar:
instruct,
teach,
coach,
tutor,
give lessons to,
school,
educate,
upskill,
edify,
prime,
drill,
demonstrate something to,
make something clear to,
inculcate,
indoctrinate,
condition,
• point or aim something, typically a gun or camera, at.
• "the detective trained his gun on the side door"
Similar:
aim,
point,
direct,
level,
line something up,
turn something on,
fix something on,
sight,
position,
focus,
take aim,
zero in on,
• go by train.
• "Charles trained to London with Emma"
• entice (someone).
Origin:
late Middle English: 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’.
