practical joke | a prank or trick played on a person (especially one intended to make the victim appear foolish) |
assertiveness training | a method of psychotherapy that reinforces you for stating negative and positive feelings directly |
autogenic therapy autogenic training autogenics | training patients in self-induced relaxation |
sea-duty service abroad shipboard duty | naval service aboard a ship at sea |
athletic training | the course of practice and exercise and diet undertaken by an athlete |
training preparation grooming | activity leading to skilled behavior |
military training | training soldiers in military procedures |
basic training | the initial period of training for new military personnel, involves intense physical activity and behavioral discipline |
toilet training | training a young child to use the toilet |
application practical application | the act of bringing something to bear, using it for a particular purpose, he advocated the application of statistics to the problem, a novel application of electronics to medical diagnosis |
reformatory reform school training school | correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders |
school ship training ship | a ship used to train students as sailors |
education training breeding | the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior), a woman of breeding and refinement |
transfer transfer of training carry-over | application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation |
vocational training vocational education | training for a specific vocation in industry or agriculture or trade |
training program | a program designed for training in specific skills |
preemployment training program | a training program to prepare you for employment |
realpolitik practical politics | politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations |
training table | planned meals for athletes in training (usually served in a mess hall) |
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center FLETC | a center in the Department of that trains law enforcement professionals for more than seventy federal agencies |
Reserve Officers Training Corps ROTC | a training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers |
training college | a school providing training for a special field or profession |
training school | a school providing practical vocational and technical training |
licensed practical nurse LPN practical nurse | a nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick |
prankster cut-up trickster tricker hoaxer practical joker | someone who plays practical jokes on others |
spring training | preseason training during the spring |
practical | having or put to a practical purpose or use, practical mathematics, practical applications of calculus |
abroad overseas | in a foreign country, markets abroad, overseas markets |
practical | concerned with actual use or practice, he is a very practical person, the idea had no practical application, a practical knowledge of Japanese, woodworking is a practical art |
hardheaded hard-nosed practical pragmatic | guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory, a hardheaded appraisal of our position, a hard-nosed labor leader, completely practical in his approach to business, not ideology but pragmatic politics |
virtual(a) practical(a) | being actually such in almost every respect, a practical failure, the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin |
for all practical purposes to all intents and purposes for all intents and purposes | in every practical sense, to all intents and purposes the case is closed, the rest are for all practical purposes useless |
abroad | to or in a foreign country, they had never travelled abroad |
overseas abroad | in a place across an ocean |
afield abroad | far away from home or one's usual surroundings, looking afield for new lands to conquer- R.A.Hall |