train
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From Middle English, from Old French train (“a delay", "a drawing out”), from trainer (“to pull out", "to draw”), from Vulgar Latin *tragināre, from *tragere, from Latin trahere (“to pull", "to draw”). The verb was derived from the noun in Middle English.
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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.
- (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.
- 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.
- (sex) an act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a woman or bottom, often also a gang rape but may also be consensual (especially a tagteaming)
- 1988, X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (New York, N.Y.), Bomb: Issues 26-29, link
- Then Swooney agreed, "Yeah, let's run a train up the fat cunt."
- 2005, Violet Blue, Best Women's Erotica 2006: Volume 2001, link
- “You want us to run a train on you?”
- 2010, Diesel King, A Good Time in the Hood, page 12
- We eventually began to decide that with the endless supply of men we had there was no need to only run trains, or gangbang, the insatiables.
- 1988, X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (New York, N.Y.), Bomb: Issues 26-29, link
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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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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.
- (transitive, video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
- 2000, "Sensei David O.E. Mohr - Lord Ronin from Q-Link", WTB:"The Last V-8" C128 game -name correction (on newsgroup comp.sys.cbm)
- I got a twix on the 128 version being fixed and trained by Mad Max at M2K BBS 208-587-7636 in Mountain Home Idaho. He fixes many games and puts them on his board. One of my sources for games and utils.
- 2000, "Sensei David O.E. Mohr - Lord Ronin from Q-Link", WTB:"The Last V-8" C128 game -name correction (on newsgroup comp.sys.cbm)
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terms derived from train (verb)
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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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train
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From trainer, from Vulgar Latin *traginare.
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train m. (plural trains)
- a railroad train
- pace
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