'Train' definitions:

Definition of 'train'

(from WordNet)
noun
Public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive; "express trains don't stop at Princeton Junction" [syn: train, railroad train]
noun
A sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding; "a string of islands"; "train of mourners"; "a train of thought" [syn: string, train]
noun
A procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file; "we were part of a caravan of almost a thousand camels"; "they joined the wagon train for safety" [syn: caravan, train, wagon train]
noun
A series of consequences wrought by an event; "it led to a train of disasters"
noun
Piece of cloth forming the long back section of a gown that is drawn along the floor; "the bride's train was carried by her two young nephews"
noun
Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed; "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain" [syn: gearing, gear, geartrain, power train, train]
verb
Create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future" [syn: train, develop, prepare, educate]
verb
Undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession; "She is training to be a teacher"; "He trained as a legal aid" [syn: train, prepare]
verb
Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained?" [syn: discipline, train, check, condition]
verb
Educate for a future role or function; "He is grooming his son to become his successor"; "The prince was prepared to become King one day"; "They trained him to be a warrior" [syn: prepare, groom, train]
verb
Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise]
verb
Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards; "Please don't aim at your little brother!"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent" [syn: aim, take, train, take aim, direct]
verb
Teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports; "He is training our Olympic team"; "She is coaching the crew" [syn: coach, train]
verb
Exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition; "She is training for the Olympics"
verb
Cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it; "train the vine"
verb
Travel by rail or train; "They railed from Rome to Venice"; "She trained to Hamburg" [syn: train, rail]
verb
Drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground; "The toddler was trailing his pants"; "She trained her long scarf behind her" [syn: trail, train]

Definition of 'Train'

From: GCIDE
  • Train \Train\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trained; p. pr. & vb. n. Training.] [OF. trahiner, tra["i]ner,F. tra[^i]ner, LL. trahinare, trainare, fr. L. trahere to draw. See Trail.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. To draw along; to trail; to drag. [1913 Webster]
  • In hollow cube Training his devilish enginery. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call To train ten thousand English to their side. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • This feast, I'll gage my life, Is but a plot to train you to your ruin. --Ford. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms. [1913 Webster]
  • Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Hort.) To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees. [1913 Webster]
  • He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left. --Jeffrey. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Mining) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head. [1913 Webster]
  • To train a gun (Mil. & Naut.), to point it at some object either forward or else abaft the beam, that is, not directly on the side. --Totten.
  • To train, or To train up, to educate; to teach; to form by instruction or practice; to bring up. [1913 Webster]
  • Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. --Prov. xxii. 6. [1913 Webster]
  • The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Train'

From: GCIDE
  • Train \Train\, v. i.
  • 1. To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Train'

From: GCIDE
  • Train \Train\, n. [F. train, OF. tra["i]n, trahin; cf. (for some of the senses) F. traine. See Train, v.]
  • 1. That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. [Obs.] "Now to my charms, and to my wily trains." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare. --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
  • With cunning trains him to entrap un wares. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear. Specifically : [1913 Webster] (a) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer. [1913 Webster] (b) (Mil.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail. [1913 Webster] (c) The tail of a bird. "The train steers their flights, and turns their bodies, like the rudder of ship." --Ray. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite. [1913 Webster]
  • The king's daughter with a lovely train. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • My train are men of choice and rarest parts. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A consecution or succession of connected things; a series. "A train of happy sentiments." --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
  • The train of ills our love would draw behind it. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • Rivers now Stream and perpetual draw their humid train. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement. [1913 Webster]
  • If things were once in this train, . . . our duty would take root in our nature. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. The number of beats of a watch in any certain time. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad; -- called also railroad train. [1913 Webster]
  • 10. A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like. [1913 Webster]
  • 11. (Rolling Mill) A roll train; as, a 12-inch train. [1913 Webster]
  • 12. (Mil.) The aggregation of men, animals, and vehicles which accompany an army or one of its subdivisions, and transport its baggage, ammunition, supplies, and reserve materials of all kinds. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • Roll train, or Train of rolls (Rolling Mill), a set of plain or grooved rolls for rolling metal into various forms by a series of consecutive operations.
  • Train mile (Railroads), a unit employed in estimating running expenses, etc., being one of the total number of miles run by all the trains of a road, or system of roads, as within a given time, or for a given expenditure; -- called also mile run.
  • Train of artillery, any number of cannon, mortars, etc., with the attendants and carriages which follow them into the field. --Campbell (Dict. Mil. Sci.).
  • Train of mechanism, a series of moving pieces, as wheels and pinions, each of which is follower to that which drives it, and driver to that which follows it.
  • Train road, a slight railway for small cars, -- used for construction, or in mining.
  • Train tackle (Naut.), a tackle for running guns in and out. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: Cars.
  • Usage: Train, Cars. At one time "train" meaning railroad train was also referred to in the U. S. by the phrase "the cars". In the 1913 dictionary the usage was described thus: "Train is the word universally used in England with reference to railroad traveling; as, I came in the morning train. In the United States, the phrase the cars has been extensively introduced in the room of train; as, the cars are late; I came in the cars. The English expression is obviously more appropriate, and is prevailing more and more among Americans, to the exclusion of the cars." [1913 Webster +PJC]

Synonyms of 'train'

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Words containing 'Train'