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1. s. Elongated portion. | |
2. s. 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. | |
3. s. A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder. | |
4. s. The tail of a bird. | |
5. s. (astronomy) A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere. | |
6. s. (now rare) An animal's trail or track. | |
7. s. Connected sequence of people or things. | |
8. s. A group of people following an important figure, king etc.; a retinue, a group of retainers. | |
9. s. 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. | |
10. s. A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something. | |
11. s. (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege. | |
12. s. A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence. | |
13. s. A series of electrical pulses. | |
14. s. A series of specified vehicles, originally tramcars in a mine, and later especially railway carriages, coupled together. | |
15. s. A line of connected railway cars or carriages considered overall as a mode of transport; (as unnoun) rail travel. | |
The train will pull in at midday. | |
16. s. A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc. | |
17. s. (computing) A software release schedule. | |
18. s. (sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape. | |
19. v. (intransitive) To practice an ability. | |
She trained seven hours a day to prepare for the Olympics. | |
20. v. To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise with discipline. | |
You can't train a pig to write poetry. | |
21. v. (intransitive) To improve one's fitness. | |
I trained with weights all winter. | |
22. v. To proceed in sequence. | |
23. v. To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction. | |
The assassin had trained his gun on the minister. | |
24. v. (transitive, horticulture) 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. | |
25. v. (mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head. | |
26. v. (transitive, video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game). | |
27. v. (obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag. | |
28. v. (obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure. | |
29. s. (obsolete) Treachery; deceit. | |
30. s. (obsolete) A trick or stratagem. | |
31. s. (obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare. | |
32. s. (obsolete) A lure; a decoy. | |