Meaning of train in English

Determine if the agency trains project staff tomaintain their skills and qualifications.

The following are examples of how agencies trained employees in new processes.

The actual style of the sculptures suggests that the sculptors had themselves been trained in the north, as had the new architect.

All members of this three-tier system are trained as a team and function as one.

They were then trained to approach the source of an odour to obtain food.

The intervention was a single motivational interview that lasted approximately 30 minutes with a doctoral-level psychologist trained and certified in motivational interviewing techniques.

Let us take as an example the trend in modern medical training away from general practice and toward surgery, high technology, and pharmacological treatments.

Ten different networks were trained with the 292 gene subset.

Moreover, they seek cost effective" competency based" training methods for their maintenance tradeforce.

They are trained on short training sessions run by the individual companies.

A simple division is between trained designer, trained workman and client, assuming that this last person is not a trained worker of some sort.

We are trained to think verbally rather than pictorially.

When training in self-instructions begins, group members are usually not aware of the types of self-statements that they customarily use.

Elizabethans, trained as they were in the discipline of formal rhetoric, often thought in such patterns.

In the late 1960s most archaeology students had followed studies in which they were trained in physical-geographical or biological modes of thought.

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