different between training vs tuition

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?e?n??/
• Rhymes: -e?n??
• Hyphenation: train?ing

Verb

training

1. present participle of train

Noun

training (usually uncountable, plural trainings)

1. Action of the verb to train. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. The activity of imparting and acquiring skills.
3. The result of good social upbringing.
4. (computing) The process by which two modems determine which protocol and speed to use; handshaking.
5. (voice recognition) The recording of multiple samples of a user's voice to aid pattern recognition.

Usage notes

• The plural trainings, for more than one training session, is not often used.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• atrining

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English training.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tre?.n??/
• Hyphenation: trai?ning
• Rhymes: -e?n??

Noun

training m (plural trainingen or trainings)

1. training (imparting or acquisition of skills, esp. in exercise and sports, also in chiefly extracurricular education)
2. a training session

Derived terms

• trainingsbroek
• trainingskamp
• trainingspak
• voetbaltraining

Spanish

Noun

training m (plural trainings)

1. training

English

Etymology

From Old French [Term?], from Latin tuiti? (“guard, protection, defense”), from tu?ri (“to watch, guard, see, observe”). Compare intuition, tutor.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: to?o?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /tu????n/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tyo?o?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /tju?????n/
• (India) enPR: tyo?o'sh?n, IPA^(key): /?tju???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

tuition (countable and uncountable, plural tuitions)

1. (Canada, US) A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college).

   Synonym: (UK) tuition fees

2. The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
   1. (India) Paid private classes taken outside of formal education; tutoring. (also used attributively)

3. (archaic) Care, guardianship.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1 Scene 1:

     BENEDICK. I have almost matter enough in me for such an embassage; and so I commit you—

     CLAUDIO. To the tuition of God: from my house, if I had it,—

     DON PEDRO. The sixth of July: your loving friend, Benedick.

     BENEDICK. Nay, mock not, mock not.

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Further reading

• tuition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tuition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.