train
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French train (“‘a delay", "a drawing out’”), from trainer (“‘to pull out", "to draw’”), ultimately from Latin trahere (“‘to pull", "to draw’”). The verb was derived from the noun in Middle English.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /treɪn/
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- Rhymes: -eɪn
[edit] Noun
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train (plural trains)
- A line of connected cars or carriages pushed or pulled by one or more locomotives, especially a railroad train which travels on a set of tracks.
- We rode the train to Mumbai.
- A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.
- Our party formed a train at the funeral parlor before departing for the burial.
- A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a train of events or a train of thought.
- A series of electrical pulses.
- A set of interconnected mechanical parts like the drive train of a car.
- That which is drawn along, like the part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.
- The train of her bridal gown caught on a nail.
[edit] Derived terms
terms derived from train (noun)
[edit] Translations
line of connected cars or carriages
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group of animals, vehicles, or people
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series of events or ideas which are interconnected
series of electric pulses
set of interconnected mechanical parts
that which is drawn along
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[edit] Verb
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to train (third-person singular simple present trains, present participle training, simple past and past participle trained)
- (intransitive) To practice an ability.
- She trained seven hours a day to prepare for the Olympics.
- (transitive) To teach a task.
- You can't train a pig to write poetry.
- (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
- I trained with weights all winter.
- To proceed in sequence.
- (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
- The assassin had trained his gun on the minister.
- (transitive) (Horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
[edit] Derived terms
terms derived from train (verb)
[edit] Translations
to practice an ability
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to teach a task
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to improve one's fitness
to proceed in sequence
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to move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction
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[edit] Anagrams
[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From trainer, from Vulgar Latin *traginare.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
train m. (plural trains)
- a railroad train
- pace
