TRAINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trained mean? 

• TRAINED (adjective)
  The adjective TRAINED has 1 sense:

1. shaped or conditioned or disciplined by training; often used as a combining form

  Familiarity information: TRAINED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shaped or conditioned or disciplined by training; often used as a combining form

Context example:

well-trained servants

Similar:

disciplined (trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise)

drilled (trained in a skill by repetitious practice)

house-trained; housebroken ((of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place)

pot-trained; potty-trained; toilet-trained ((of children) trained to use the toilet)

Antonym:

untrained (not disciplined or conditioned or made adept by training)

 Context examples 

Persons who can be trained to guide and support those requiring assistance obtaining medical care.

(Patient Navigator, NCI Thesaurus)

A person trained to collect blood for transfusion, analysis, or experimental testing.

(Phlebotomist, NCI Thesaurus)

Never trained that way, you see.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It involves close, constant attention by a team of specially-trained health care providers.

(Critical Care, NIH)

Immune cells extracted from patients’ blood have been “trained” in a laboratory to recognize and destroy the virus.

(Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Developed in Australia Shows Promise, VOA)

Under ordinary circumstances, after all that I had undergone, I should have been fit for bed and a trained nurse.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth, or liberal education.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A trained counselor can help you develop strategies to regain a feeling of control.

(Coping with Chronic Illness, NIH)

A complete evaluation by a trained professional is the only way to know for sure if your child has ADHD.

(Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)

With this friendly new moon, hold on to that dream, for with your glittering star power trained on your personal life, anything is possible now.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)