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noun + training : fitness, weight
adjective + training : physical, pre-season; hard, tough
verb + training : begin, resume, start; miss SYNONYMS training NOUN 1
instruction: Each candidate is given instruction in safety.
practice: She was taking all three of her daughters to basketball practice every day.
schooling: He had little formal schooling.
grounding: The degree provides a thorough grounding in both mathematics and statistics.
trai n|ing camp (training camps ) N‑COUNT A training camp for soldiers or sports players is an organized period of training at a particular place.
trai n|ing shoe (training shoes ) N‑COUNT [usu pl] Training shoes are the same as trainers .
train|spotter /tre I nspɒtə r / (trainspotters ) also train spotter , train-spotter N‑COUNT A trainspotter is someone who is very interested in trains and spends time going to stations and recording the numbers of the trains that they see. [BRIT ]
train|spot|ting /tre I nspɒt I ŋ/ also train spotting , train-spotting N‑UNCOUNT Trainspotting is the hobby of going to railway stations and recording the numbers of the trains that you see. [BRIT ]
traipse /tre I ps/ (traipses , traipsing , traipsed )
1 VERB If you traipse somewhere, you go there unwillingly, often because you are tired or unhappy. □ [V prep/adv] If traipsing around shops does not appeal to you, perhaps using a catalogue will.
2 VERB If you talk about people traipsing somewhere, you mean that they are going there or moving about there in a way that annoys someone or gets in their way. [DISAPPROVAL ] □ [V prep/adv] You will have to get used to a lot of people traipsing in and out of your home.
trait /tre I t, tre I / (traits ) N‑COUNT A trait is a particular characteristic, quality, or tendency that someone or something has. □ Many of our personality traits are developed during those early months.
trai|tor /tre I tə r / (traitors )
1 N‑COUNT If you call someone a traitor , you mean that they have betrayed beliefs that they used to hold, or that their friends hold, by their words or actions. [DISAPPROVAL ] □ [+ to ] Some say he's a traitor to the working class.
2 N‑COUNT If someone is a traitor , they betray their country or a group of which they are a member by helping its enemies, especially during time of war. □ …rumours that there were traitors among us who were sending messages to the enemy.
trai|tor|ous /tre I tərəs/ ADJ A traitorous action will betray or bring danger to a country or to the group of people that someone belongs to. □ …the monstrous betrayal of men by their most traitorous companions. □ …the movement could be labeled as divisive, even traitorous.
tra|jec|tory /trədʒe ktəri/ (trajectories )
1 N‑COUNT The trajectory of a moving object is the path that it follows as it moves. □ [+ of ] …the trajectory of an artillery shell.
2 N‑COUNT The trajectory of something such as a person's career is the course that it follows over time. □ …a relentlessly upward career trajectory.
tram /træ m/ (trams ) N‑COUNT [oft by N ] A tram is a public transport vehicle, usually powered by electricity from wires above it, which travels along rails laid in the surface of a street. [mainly BRIT ] in AM, usually use streetcar
tram|line /træ mla I n/ (tramlines ) N‑COUNT A tramline is one of the rails laid in the surface of a road that trams travel along. [BRIT ] in AM, use streetcar line
tramp /træ mp/ (tramps , tramping , tramped )
1 N‑COUNT A tramp is a person who has no home or job, and very little money. Tramps go from place to place, and get food or money by asking people or by doing casual work.
2 VERB If you tramp somewhere, you walk there slowly and with regular, heavy steps, for a long time. □ [V prep/adv] They put on their coats and tramped through the falling snow. □ [V n] She spent all day yesterday tramping the streets, gathering evidence.
3 N‑UNCOUNT The tramp of people is the sound of their heavy, regular walking. □ [+ of ] He heard the slow, heavy tramp of feet on the stairs.
4 N‑COUNT If someone refers to a woman as a tramp , they are insulting her, because they think that she is immoral in her sexual behaviour. [mainly AM , OFFENSIVE , DISAPPROVAL ]
tram|ple /træ mp ə l/ (tramples , trampling , trampled )
1 VERB To trample on someone's rights or values or to trample them means to deliberately ignore or destroy them. □ [V + on ] They say loggers are destroying rain forests and trampling on the rights of natives. □ [V n] Diplomats denounced the leaders for trampling their citizens' civil rights.
2 VERB [usu passive] If someone is trampled , they are injured or killed by being stepped on by animals or by other people. □ [be V -ed] Many people were trampled in the panic that followed.
3 VERB If someone tramples something or tramples on it, they step heavily and carelessly on it and damage it. □ [V n] They don't want people trampling the grass, pitching tents or building fires. □ [V + on ] Please don't trample on the azaleas.
tram|po|line /træ mpəliːn/ (trampolines ) N‑COUNT A trampoline is a piece of equipment on which you jump up and down as a sport. It consists of a large piece of strong cloth held by springs in a frame.