trainer

«trainer» in Mova's school dictionary: A person who teaches people or animals to do something… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a trainer, trainers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A person who teaches people or animals to do something, especially a sport or a skill, like a football trainer or a dog trainer. tree →

2) In British, Irish and Australian English, trainers are soft sports shoes for running and games (Americans say sneakers). tree →

3) A thing used for practice, like training wheels (stabilisers) or a trainer cup for a baby. tree →

sense in the lessons

In PE and everyday life, a trainer coaches a team and keeps players fit; a dog trainer teaches dogs to sit and walk on a lead. In the UK and Ireland you wear trainers for PE; in the USA and Canada they are sneakers, and in Australia and New Zealand people also say runners or sneakers. Phrases: "a pair of trainers", "personal trainer", "dog trainer", "horse trainer", "do up your trainers".

examples

• Put your trainers on for PE. tree →
• I need new trainers because mine have a hole. tree →
• The trainer made us run three laps of the field. tree →
• The dog trainer taught Rex to sit and stay. tree →
• My big sister has a personal trainer at the gym. tree →
• The horse trainer gave the pony an apple. tree →
• Tie your trainer laces so you do not trip. tree →
• Our football trainer says practice makes progress. tree →

note

Trainers (shoes) is usually plural, "a pair of trainers" — in maths, one pair = 2 trainers. "Trainer" is a person who trains; "trainee" is the person being trained. American English: sneakers; "a trainer" in the USA is usually a person (an athletic trainer). The ending -er often means "a person who does", as in teacher, baker, trainer.

In the corpora

• Ollie asks if he should sleep with his trainers on.
• On PE day you wear or pack the sports clothes and trainers the school asks for and tie long hair back.
• Kai called his friend's new trainers ugly because he secretly wanted them, and his friend, sad, stopped wearing them.
• In Nottingham, Jolene's mates all have the new trainers, and her family is skint (has no spare money).
• True friends don't care much about trainers.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «trainer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.