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Train   /treɪn/   Listen
Train

noun
1.
Public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive.  Synonym: railroad train.
2.
A sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding.  Synonym: string.  "Train of mourners" , "A train of thought"
3.
A procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file.  Synonyms: caravan, wagon train.  "They joined the wagon train for safety"
4.
A series of consequences wrought by an event.
5.
Piece of cloth forming the long back section of a gown that is drawn along the floor.
6.
Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.  Synonyms: gear, gearing, geartrain, power train.
verb
(past & past part. trained; pres. part. training)
1.
Create by training and teaching.  Synonyms: develop, educate, prepare.  "We develop the leaders for the future"
2.
Undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession.  Synonym: prepare.  "He trained as a legal aid"
3.
Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control.  Synonyms: check, condition, discipline.  "Is this dog trained?"
4.
Educate for a future role or function.  Synonyms: groom, prepare.  "The prince was prepared to become King one day" , "They trained him to be a warrior"
5.
Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment.  Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, school.  "Train your tastebuds" , "She is well schooled in poetry"
6.
Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards.  Synonyms: aim, direct, take, take aim.  "He trained his gun on the burglar" , "Don't train your camera on the women" , "Take a swipe at one's opponent"
7.
Teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports.  Synonym: coach.  "She is coaching the crew"
8.
Exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition.
9.
Cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it.
10.
Travel by rail or train.  Synonym: rail.  "She trained to Hamburg"
11.
Drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground.  Synonym: trail.  "She trained her long scarf behind her"



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"Train" Quotes from Famous Books



... magic incapacitated and overcome. 'Tis an excuse made by fallen lads since treason was writ of; 'tis a mere excuse, ennobling no traitorious act: since love, to be sure, has no precedence of loyalty in hearts of truth and manful aspiration. Love? surely it walks with glorious modesty in the train of honor—or is a brazen baggage. But, as it unhappily chanced, whatever the academic conception, the maid held the lamp too close for my salvation: so close that her blue, shadowy eyes bewildered me, and her lips, red and moist, with a gleam of white teeth ...
— The Cruise of the Shining Light • Norman Duncan

... ashes, and the victors took up their march with a train of nearly seven hundred prisoners, many of whom they killed on the way. Many more had been slain in the town and the neighboring forest, where the pursuers hunted them down, and where women, crouching for refuge among ...
— The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century • Francis Parkman

... of modern society are coming to demand greater and greater sobriety from those in responsible places, no matter whether at the head of a party or a railway train. The spiritual phase, the medical view, the moral, social, and economic sides of the question I would not, under any circumstances, assume to deal with. On all these there are various views, none of which would I undertake ...
— The Young Man and the World • Albert J. Beveridge

... tears out as many coupons as the passenger has travelled miles. This mileage system is an extremely convenient one for (say) a family, as the books are good until exhausted, and the coupons are available on any train (with possibly one or two exceptions) on any part of the system of the company issuing the ticket. Which of our enlightened British companies is going to be the first to win the hearts of its patrons by the adoption of this neat and easy device? ...
— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead

... which the question is a part. Questions of this kind only suggest to the memory the statement of the text, and do not cause the pupil to use his own thought in realizing the actual event. Hence they arouse little interest and leave little impression. They train the verbal memory, but leave imagination, thought, and understanding untouched. How much ...
— The Recitation • George Herbert Betts


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