different between takkie vs trainer

English

Etymology

From Afrikaans tekkie (“athletic shoe”).

Pronunciation

• (General South African) enPR: /t?k?/

Noun

takkie (plural takkies)

1. (South Africa, chiefly in the plural) An athletic shoe, a trainer, a sneaker.
   • 1948, Tom Macdonald, Jan Hofmeyr: heir to Smuts,^[1] Hurst & Blackett, page 119:

     One day in comes Jannie Hofmeyr to my shop, and he's wanting a pair of takkies to play tennis you know, and William, my son, he goes and serves him.

   • 1986, Peter Abbott and Philip Botham, Modern African Wars (1): Rhodesia 1965–80, Osprey Publishing, ?ISBN, page 43:

     Net face veils often replaced the orthodox headgear, and ‘takkies’ (canvas boots) or ‘fellies’ (veldshoen^[sic]) the regulation combat boots.

   • 2001, Gail Evans, Time Trials, iUniverse, ?ISBN, page 11:

     […] she kept getting her foot stuck in it until her right takkie was squishing on the kitchen floor.

   • 2006, Byron Loker, New Swell, iBhuku.com, ?ISBN, page 35:

     […] stood on it with one takkie that had no shoelace.

English

Etymology

train +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK): IPA^(key): /?t?e?n?/
• (US): enPR: tr??n?r, IPA^(key): /?t?e?n?/
• Rhymes: -e?n?(?)

Noun

trainer (plural trainers)

1. A person who trains another; a coach.
2. (sports) A person responsible for treating injuries sustained by players during matches; a physiotherapist.
3. (Britain) A running shoe or sneaker.
4. (video games, slang) A patch for a video game that applies cheats.
   • 2000, "Phil", I need trainer for version 1.10.021 (on newsgroup alt.games.rctycoon)

     I actually never got a trainer for RCT, but needed one for my brother when I installed it on his computer. He is 10, and is only concerned with making "cool" coasters. I also completed CF before getting trainers.

   • 2001, "LJames4728", Good C64 Game Sites? (on newsgroup alt.c64)

     Are there any sites that have original copies of games? (ie: Summer/Winter/World Games with Fast Loading). Just looking for games without the trainers/intros.

5. (cycling) A piece of indoor equipment allowing a bicycle to be ridden while stationary.
6. attributive form of trainers

   There was chewing gum stuck to my trainer soles.

Synonyms

• (person who trains another; coach): coach
• (running shoe): dap (UK), plimsoll (UK), running shoe, tennis shoe, see also Thesaurus:sports shoe

Derived terms

• personal trainer

Related terms

• train

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: trainor
  • ? English: trainor

Translations

Anagrams

• rantier, retrain, terrain

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

trainer m or f (plural trainers, diminutive trainertje n, feminine trainster)

1. trainer
2. coach

French

Verb

trainer

1. Post-1990 spelling of traîner.

Conjugation

Further reading

• “trainer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• rentrai, ternira, terrain

Old French

Alternative forms

• trahiner, traïner (diaereses are not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *trag?n?re, from *tragere (see treire), from Latin trah?, trahere (“I pull”).

Verb

trainer

1. to drag

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• French: traîner
• Norman: traîner
• ? Galician: treinar
• ? Italian: trainare
• ? Middle English: trainen, traynen
  • English: train
  • Scots: train
  • Portuguese: treinar