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Definition train

Etymology 1

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French train (“a delay, a drawing out”), from traïner (“to pull out, to draw”), from Vulgar Latin *tragin?re, from *tragere, from Latin trah?, trahere (“to pull, to draw”). The verb was derived from the noun in Middle English.

Noun

train (plural trains)

1. Elongated portion.
   1. The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground. [from 14th c.]
   2. A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder. [from 15th c.]
   3. The tail of a bird.
   4. (astronomy) A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere.
   5. (now rare) An animal's trail or track. [from 16th c.]
2. Connected sequence of people or things.
   1. A group of people following an important figure, king etc.; a retinue, a group of retainers. [from 14th c.]
   2. A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession. [from 15th c.]
   3. A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something. [from 15th c.]
   4. (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege. [from 16th c.]
   5. A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence. [from 18th c.]
   6. A series of electrical pulses. [from 19th c.]
   7. A series of specified vehicles, originally tramcars in a mine, and later especially railway carriages, coupled together. [from 19th c.]
   8. A line of connected railway cars or carriages considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail travel. [from 19th c.]
   9. A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
   10. (computing) A software release schedule.
   11. (sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape. [from 20th c.]

Verb

train (third-person singular simple present trains, present participle training, simple past and past participle trained)

1. (intransitive) To practice an ability.
2. (transitive) To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise with discipline.
3. (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
4. To proceed in sequence.
5. (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
6. (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
7. (mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
8. (transitive, video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
9. (obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
10. (obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman traine, Middle French traïne, from traïr (“to betray”).

Noun

train (plural trains)

1. (obsolete) Treachery; deceit. [14th-19th c.]
2. (obsolete) A trick or stratagem. [14th-19th c.]
3. (obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare. [14th-18th c.]
4. (obsolete) A lure; a decoy. [15th-18th c.]

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