'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'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acclimate,
- acclimatize,
- accommodate,
- accustom,
- adapt,
- adjust,
- afterpart,
- afterpiece,
- aim,
- aim at,
- allure,
- alternation,
- Amtrak,
- apprentice,
- army,
- army group,
- array,
- articulation,
- attend classes,
- attend school,
- attendance,
- attendant,
- attendants,
- baggage train,
- bait,
- bank,
- battalion,
- battery,
- battle group,
- bed,
- bed down,
- bend,
- body of retainers,
- break,
- break in,
- breed,
- bridle,
- brigade,
- bring up,
- brush,
- buzz,
- cable railroad,
- cadre,
- caravan,
- carriage,
- case harden,
- cast,
- catena,
- catenation,
- cavalcade,
- chain,
- chain reaction,
- chaining,
- choo-choo,
- coach,
- cog railroad,
- cog railway,
- cohort,
- column,
- combat command,
- combat team,
- company,
- concatenation,
- condition,
- confirm,
- connection,
- consecution,
- continuum,
- corps,
- cortege,
- course,
- court,
- cultivate,
- curry,
- currycomb,
- cycle,
- decoy,
- descent,
- detachment,
- detail,
- determine,
- develop,
- direct,
- directionize,
- discipline,
- division,
- domesticate,
- domesticize,
- drag,
- draggle,
- draw,
- drench,
- dress parade,
- drill,
- drone,
- edify,
- educate,
- el,
- electric,
- electric train,
- elevated,
- endless belt,
- endless round,
- entice,
- entourage,
- escort,
- establish,
- exercise,
- express,
- express train,
- familiarize,
- feed,
- fetch up,
- field army,
- field train,
- file,
- filiation,
- fit,
- fix,
- fix on,
- flier,
- flying column,
- flyover,
- fodder,
- follower,
- followers,
- following,
- form,
- foster,
- freight,
- freight train,
- freighter,
- funeral,
- funicular,
- gamut,
- garrison,
- gentle,
- go into training,
- go to school,
- goods train,
- gradation,
- groom,
- guard,
- guide,
- habituate,
- hale,
- handle,
- harden,
- harness,
- haul,
- head,
- heave,
- hitch,
- hold on,
- house-train,
- housebreak,
- household,
- hum,
- improve,
- incline,
- Indian file,
- indoctrinate,
- instruct,
- interurban,
- inure,
- inveigle,
- kitchen police,
- KP,
- lay,
- lead on,
- legion,
- level,
- level at,
- lick into shape,
- lightning express,
- limited,
- line,
- lineage,
- litter,
- local,
- lug,
- manage,
- maniple,
- march past,
- metro,
- milk,
- milk train,
- monorail,
- monotone,
- motorcade,
- mule train,
- naturalize,
- nexus,
- nurse,
- nurture,
- order,
- organization,
- orient,
- orientate,
- outfit,
- pack train,
- parade,
- parasite,
- parliamentary,
- parliamentary train,
- passenger train,
- pendulum,
- periodicity,
- phalanx,
- platoon,
- plenum,
- point,
- point at,
- point to,
- pomp,
- posse,
- powder train,
- practice,
- prepare,
- present,
- procession,
- progression,
- promenade,
- pull,
- put in tune,
- put to school,
- queue,
- rack-and-pinion railroad,
- railroad train,
- raise,
- range,
- rank,
- rattler,
- read with,
- ready,
- rear,
- receive instruction,
- recurrence,
- regiment,
- rehearse,
- retainers,
- reticulation,
- retinue,
- review,
- rolling stock,
- rotation,
- round,
- rout,
- routine,
- row,
- rub down,
- run,
- saddle,
- satellite,
- scale,
- school,
- season,
- section,
- seduce,
- send to school,
- sequence,
- series,
- serve an apprenticeship,
- set,
- shape,
- shuttle,
- shuttle train,
- sight on,
- single file,
- skimmington,
- snake,
- special,
- spectrum,
- squad,
- squadron,
- staff,
- stream,
- streamliner,
- string,
- subway,
- succession,
- suite,
- swath,
- tab,
- tactical unit,
- tag,
- tail,
- tailpiece,
- take in hand,
- take in tow,
- take lessons,
- tame,
- task force,
- teach,
- tempt,
- tend,
- thread,
- tier,
- toll,
- tow,
- trail,
- trailer,
- train upon,
- trawl,
- troll,
- troop,
- tube,
- tug,
- turn,
- turn upon,
- tutor,
- undergo schooling,
- underground,
- unit,
- wake,
- water,
- way train,
- windrow,
- wing,
- wont,
- work out,
- yoke
Words containing 'Train'
- Through train,
- To train,
- To train up,
- Trained,
- Training,
- Battering train,
- Construction train,
- Corridor train,
- Epicyclic train,
- Express train,
- Fan training,
- Forge train,
- Freight train,
- Goods train,
- Horizontal training,
- Mail train,
- Mixed train,
- Pack train,
- Parliamentary train,
- Pontoon train,
- Quenouille training,
- Rail train,
- Roll train,
- Siege train,
- To train a gun,
- Train dispatcher,
- Train mile,
- Train of artillery,
- Train of mechanism,
- Train of rolls,
- Train oil,
- Train road,
- Train tackle,
- Training college,
- Training day,
- Training ship,
- Training wheels,
- Up-train,
- Vestibule train,
- Vestibuled train,
- Way train,
- assertiveness training,
- athletic training,
- autogenic training,
- basic training,
- boat train,
- bullet train,
- car train,
- commuter train,
- connecting train,
- gravy train,
- hospital train,
- liner train,
- military training,
- passenger train,
- power train,
- railroad train,
- road train,
- sensitivity training,
- spring training,
- subway train,
- toilet training,
- train depot,
- train fare,
- train of thought,
- train set,
- train station,
- train ticket,
- trained nurse,
- trained worker,
- training program,
- training school,
- training table,
- transfer of training,
- vocational training,
- wagon train,
- wave train,
- epicyclic gear train,
- house-train,
- house-trained,
- pot-trained,
- potty-trained,
- preemployment training program,
- toilet-train,
- toilet-trained,
- reserve officers training corps,
- federal law enforcement training center