train
Synonyms:
(noun) array, arrangement, column, convoy, drill, exercise, file, practice, school.
(verb) condition, season, teach.
Related Words:
caravan, care for, chain, convoy, equip, develop, discipline, educate, entourage, focus, improve, instruct, line, qualify, set, study, track, tutor, work out.
Antonym:
decondition.
Synonym Study 1 (Dictionary.com):
Teach, instruct, tutor, train, and educate share the meaning of imparting information, understanding, or skill.
Teach is the broadest and most general of these terms and can refer to almost any practice that causes others to develop skill or knowledge:
to teach children to write; to teach marksmanship to soldiers; to teach tricks to a dog.
Instruct almost always implies a systematic, structured method of teaching:
to instruct paramedics in techniques of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Tutor refers to the giving of usually private instruction or coaching in a particular subject or skill:
to tutor a child in (a foreign language, algebra, history, or the like).
Train lays stress on the development of desired behaviors through practice, discipline, or the use of rewards or punishments:
to train a child to be polite; to train recruits in military skills; to train a dog to heel.
Educate, with a root sense of “to lead forth from,” refers to the imparting of a specific body of knowledge, especially one that equips a person to practice a profession:
to educate a person for a high-school diploma; to educate someone for the law.
Synonym Study 2 (Merriam-Webster):
Teach, instruct, educate, train, discipline, and school mean to cause to acquire knowledge or skill.
Teach applies to any manner of imparting information or skill so that others may learn:
taught us a lot about our planet.
Instruct suggests methodical or formal teaching:
instructs raw recruits in military drill.
Educate implies development of the mind:
more things than formal schooling serve to educate a person.
Train stresses instruction and drill with a specific end in view:
trained foreign pilots to operate the new aircraft:
Discipline implies training in habits of order and precision:
a disciplined mind.
School implies training or disciplining especially in what is hard to master:
schooled the horse in five gaits.
Origin:
1350–1400; (v.) late Middle English traynyn to pull or drag in the rear <Middle French trainer,Old French tra(h)iner<Vulgar Latin *tragīnāre, derivative of *tragīna something dragged or drawn (compare Medieval Latin tragīna carriage), derivative of *tragere to pull, for Latin trahere; (noun) Middle English train, traine<Old French tra(h)in (masculine) series of people, animals, or things, tra(h)ine (feminine) something dragged behind, both derivative of tra(h)iner. British dictionary: C14: from Old French trahiner, from Vulgar Latin tragīnāre (unattested) to draw; related to Latin trahere to drag. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of train: Noun (1): 14th century. Verb: 15th century. Noun (2): 14th century. History and Etymology for train: Noun (1): Middle English, from Anglo-French, from trainer to draw, drag. Verb: Middle English, from Anglo-French trainer, from Vulgar Latin *traginare; akin to Latin trahere to draw. Noun (2): Middle English traine treachery, from Anglo-French, from trahir to betray, from Latin tradere — more at traitor. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
Updated: 4 August 2020 {10:37 PM}
(noun) array, arrangement, column, convoy, drill, exercise, file, practice, school.
(verb) condition, season, teach.
Related Words:
caravan, care for, chain, convoy, equip, develop, discipline, educate, entourage, focus, improve, instruct, line, qualify, set, study, track, tutor, work out.
Antonym:
decondition.
Synonym Study 1 (Dictionary.com):
Teach, instruct, tutor, train, and educate share the meaning of imparting information, understanding, or skill.
Teach is the broadest and most general of these terms and can refer to almost any practice that causes others to develop skill or knowledge:
to teach children to write; to teach marksmanship to soldiers; to teach tricks to a dog.
Instruct almost always implies a systematic, structured method of teaching:
to instruct paramedics in techniques of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Tutor refers to the giving of usually private instruction or coaching in a particular subject or skill:
to tutor a child in (a foreign language, algebra, history, or the like).
Train lays stress on the development of desired behaviors through practice, discipline, or the use of rewards or punishments:
to train a child to be polite; to train recruits in military skills; to train a dog to heel.
Educate, with a root sense of “to lead forth from,” refers to the imparting of a specific body of knowledge, especially one that equips a person to practice a profession:
to educate a person for a high-school diploma; to educate someone for the law.
Synonym Study 2 (Merriam-Webster):
Teach, instruct, educate, train, discipline, and school mean to cause to acquire knowledge or skill.
Teach applies to any manner of imparting information or skill so that others may learn:
taught us a lot about our planet.
Instruct suggests methodical or formal teaching:
instructs raw recruits in military drill.
Educate implies development of the mind:
more things than formal schooling serve to educate a person.
Train stresses instruction and drill with a specific end in view:
trained foreign pilots to operate the new aircraft:
Discipline implies training in habits of order and precision:
a disciplined mind.
School implies training or disciplining especially in what is hard to master:
schooled the horse in five gaits.
Origin:
1350–1400; (v.) late Middle English traynyn to pull or drag in the rear <Middle French trainer,Old French tra(h)iner<Vulgar Latin *tragīnāre, derivative of *tragīna something dragged or drawn (compare Medieval Latin tragīna carriage), derivative of *tragere to pull, for Latin trahere; (noun) Middle English train, traine<Old French tra(h)in (masculine) series of people, animals, or things, tra(h)ine (feminine) something dragged behind, both derivative of tra(h)iner. British dictionary: C14: from Old French trahiner, from Vulgar Latin tragīnāre (unattested) to draw; related to Latin trahere to drag. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of train: Noun (1): 14th century. Verb: 15th century. Noun (2): 14th century. History and Etymology for train: Noun (1): Middle English, from Anglo-French, from trainer to draw, drag. Verb: Middle English, from Anglo-French trainer, from Vulgar Latin *traginare; akin to Latin trahere to draw. Noun (2): Middle English traine treachery, from Anglo-French, from trahir to betray, from Latin tradere — more at traitor. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
Updated: 4 August 2020 {10:37 PM}