1. Having acquired specific skills, knowledge, or behaviors through instruction or practice
   "a trained mind";="trained medical personnel"

1. Create by training and teaching
   "The old master is training world-class violinists";
   - develop, prepare, educate
    
2. Undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession
   "She is training to be a teacher"; "He trained as a legal aid";
   - prepare
    
3. Educate for a future role or function
   "They trained him to be a warrior";
   - prepare, groom
    
4. Teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports
   "He is training our Olympic team";
   - coach
    
5. Develop (a child's or animal's) behaviour by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
   "Is this dog trained?";
   - discipline, check, condition
    
6. Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
   "Train your tastebuds";
   - educate, school, cultivate, civilize, civilise [Brit]
    
7. Exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition
   "She is training for the Olympics"
    
8. Cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it
   "train the vine"
    
9. Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
   "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women";
   - aim, take, take aim, direct
    
10. Travel by rail or train
    "She trained to Hamburg";
    - rail
     
11. Drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
    "She trained her long scarf behind her";
    - trail

See also: disciplined, drilled, housebroken [N. Amer], house-trained [Brit], pot-trained, potty-trained, toilet-trained

Type of: check, contain, control, curb, develop, down [informal], drag, educate, exercise, fine-tune, hold, hold in, instruct, learn, moderate, polish, position, read, refine, ride, study, take, teach, work out

Antonym: untrained

Encyclopedia: Trained