train /ˈtɹeɪn/noun 34verb 15forms 5phrases 4 noun34 •a line of connected vehicles that moves along a metal track, carrying people or goodsThe train for Edinburgh will leave in 5 minutes.The train arrived at the station. •A series of specified vehicles (originally tramcars in a mine as usual, later especially railway carriages) coupled together. •A service on a railway line. •A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something.Failure to acknowledge an A.T.C. warning or excessive speed starts the same train of events until correction is made. — 1960 •A series of electrical pulses. •Elongated or trailing portion. •The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.Unfortunately, the leading bridesmaid stepped on the bride's train as they were walking down the aisle. •A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.[E]mancipation is put into such a train that in a few years there will be no slaves Northward of Maryland. — 1785 •The tail of a bird.Let frantike Talbot triumph for a while, And like a Peacock sweepe along his tayle, Wee’le pull his Plumes, and take away his Trayne, If Dolphin and the rest will be but rul’d. — 1591 •A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere or accompanying a comet as it nears the sun; tail....the comet expands, its vapours are developed and escape in jets towards the radiant star; then we see them driven back on each side of the head and the caudal train commencing. — 2014 •(literary) The elongated body or form of something narrow and winding, such as the course of a river or the body of a snake. •Connected sequence of people or things. •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. •The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege. •A set of things, events, or circumstances that follow after or as a consequence; aftermath, wake.Thus the development of reason is accompanied by no inner blight or withering. It does not bring in its train loss of faith or weakening of sympathies. — 1907 •A group of people following an important figure such as a king or noble; a retinue, a group of retainers.Sir, I invite your Highness and your train / To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest /For this one night — 1610 •A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence. •A software release schedule.What steps do development engineers follow when adding new feature code? How do they support different software versions or release trains? — 2008 •(informal) A specified topic, behavior, interest or inclination.She doesn't come around any more, cuz she had a kid. She's on the family train now. •(slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape.“You want us to run a train on you?” — 2005 •(literary, figurative) A group or class of people.These are the cruel pirates of Argier, That damned train, the scum of Affrica, […] — 1587 •A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc. •(no longer used) The tail of an animal in general. •(no longer used) An animal's trail or track. •(no longer used) A clue or trace. •(no longer used) Treachery; deceit.In the meane time, through that false Ladies traine / He was surprisd, and buried under beare, / Ne ever to his worke returnd againe [...]. — 1590 •(no longer used) A trick or stratagem. •(no longer used) A trap for animals, a snare; (figuratively) a trap in general. •(no longer used) Something dragged or laid along the ground to form a trail of scent or food along which to lure an animal. •(no longer used) A lure; a decoy. •(no longer used) A live bird, handicapped or disabled in some way, provided for a young hawk to kill as training or enticement. •(no longer used) Gait or manner of running of a horse. •(no longer used) State of progress, status, situation (in phrases introduced by in a + adjective); also proper order or situation (introduced by in or in a alone).As we had been in a good train for several days past, I thought it not prudent to break with him, for little matters. — 1748 •(no longer used) train oil, whale oil verb15 •To practice an ability.She trained seven hours a day to prepare for the Olympics. •To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).You can't train a pig to write poetry. •To feed data into an algorithm, usually based on a neural network, to create a machine learning model that can perform some task.At least 10 lawsuits have been filed this year against A.I. companies, accusing them of training their systems on artists’ creative work without consent. — 2023 •To improve one's fitness.I trained with weights all winter. •To travel by train.As I trained westward across Europe, I read newspaper articles from the Sixties describing placards on the pub’s walls that explained to patrons how to order lager, brandy, and gin in Esperanto. — 2026 •To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.The assassin had trained his gun on the minister. •To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.The vine had been trained over the pergola. •To transport (something) by train.Colson was to truck the 'plane to Alice Springs, where it would be trained to Adelaide for repairs. — 1931 •To proceed in sequence. •To create a trainer (cheat patch) for; to apply cheats to (a game).In the mid-1980s, demoparties were also copyparties, where the first so called hot releases of cracked and trained games changed hands. However, illegal software copying later disappeared […] — 2021 •To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head. •(no longer used) To draw (something) along; to trail, to drag (something).[I]t pleased the grekes at that tyme to se yͤ body of Hector so trayned by Achilles⸝ bycause he was wont to be so redoubtab[l]e to them⸝ […] — 1530 •(no longer used) To trail down or along the ground. •(no longer used) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.If but a dozen French / Were there in arms, they would be as a call / To train ten thousand English to their side. — 1596 •(informal, no longer used) To be on intimate terms with. formstrained · training · traineth · trains · trainest Phrases with train back that train upSaid to a person who is speaking or acting too hastily. gravy trainAn occupation or situation that generates considerable income or benefits while requiring little effort and carrying little risk. train upTo train or educate. train wreckA train crash.
