Training vs Trainings - What's the difference?
training | trainings |
Action of the verb to train .
The activity of imparting and acquiring skills.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Stephen Ledoux
, title=Behaviorism at 100
, volume=100, issue=1, page=60
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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.
(attention)
(label) Mental focus.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.}}
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, title= (label) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
* 1818 , (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley), (Frankenstein); or, the Modern Prometheus , ch. 3,
* 1910 , (Stephen Leacock), " ,
A state of alertness in the standing position.
As nouns the difference between training and trainings
is that training is action of the verb to train while trainings is plural of lang=en.As a verb training
is present participle of lang=en.training
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(-) (wikipedia training)citation, passage=Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training .}}
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 wheelstrainings
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*attention
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(wikipedia attention)Noun
(en-noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
The British Longitude Act Reconsidered, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}
- She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper.
- For some time past I have been the recipient of very marked attentions from a young lady.