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As a noun training

is training.

As a proper noun academy is

(classical studies|history) the school for advanced education founded by plato; the garden where plato taught brown, lesley, ed the shorter oxford english dictionary 5th oxford: oxford university press, 2003.

training

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (-) (wikipedia training)
  • Action of the verb to train .
  • The activity of imparting and acquiring skills.
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  • The result of good social upbringing.
  • (computing) The process by which two modems determine which protocol and speed to use; handshaking.
  • (voice recognition ) The recording of multiple samples of a user's voice to aid pattern recognition.

    • Usage notes

    The plural of training is very uncommon. Thus multiple training sessions are not referred to as "trainings", rather as "training sessions".

    Derived terms

    * training bra * training wheels

    academy

    English

    Noun

    (academies)
  • (classical studies, usually, capitalized) The garden where Plato taught. Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • (classical studies, usually, capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
  • An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
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  • A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
    • the military academy''' at West Point; a riding '''academy'''; the '''Academy of Music.
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  • A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
    • the French Academy'''; the American '''Academy''' of Arts and Sciences; '''academies of literature and philology.
  • (obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
  • Academia.
  • A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
  • (UK, education) A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.

    • Synonyms

    * (society of learned people) learned society

    Derived terms

    * academic * academical * academy figure * Academy of Sciences * laughing academy * national academy

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