English Explanatory Dictionary

train

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Elongated or trailing portion.
  2. The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
  3. A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.
  4. The tail of a bird.
  5. The tail of an animal in general.
  6. The elongated body or form of something narrow and winding, such as the course of a river or the body of a snake.
  7. 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.
  8. An animal's trail or track.
  9. Something dragged or laid along the ground to form a trail of scent or food along which to lure an animal.
  10. Gait or manner of running of a horse.
  11. Connected sequence of people or things.
  12. A group of people following an important figure such as a king or noble; a retinue, a group of retainers.
verb
  1. To practice an ability.
  2. To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
  3. To improve one's fitness.
  4. To proceed in sequence.
  5. To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
  6. To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
  7. To feed data into an algorithm, usually based on a neural network, to create a machine learning model that can perform some task.
  8. To transport (something) by train.
  9. To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
  10. To create a trainer (cheat patch) for; to apply cheats to (a game).
  11. To draw (something) along; to trail, to drag (something).
  12. To trail down or along the ground.
noun
  1. Treachery; deceit.
  2. A trick or stratagem.
  3. A trap for animals, a snare; (figuratively) a trap in general.
  4. A lure; a decoy.
  5. A live bird, handicapped or disabled in some way, provided for a young hawk to kill as training or enticement.
  6. A clue or trace.
verb
  1. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
  2. To be on intimate terms with.
noun
  1. train oil, whale oil
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɹeɪn/ [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷeɪ̯n] [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷeɪ̯n] En-uk-a train.ogg en-us-train.ogg /ˈtɹæɪ̯n/ [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷæ̝ɪ̯n] [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷæ̝ɪ̯n] Train.wav

Word forms

train trains training trained

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.? Latin trahere Vulgar Latin *tragīnāre Old French traïnerder. Old French trainder. Middle English trayne English train From Middle English trayne (“train”), from Old French train (“a delay, a drawing out”), from traïner (“to pull out, to draw”), from Vulgar Latin *traginō, from *tragō, from Latin trahō (“to pull, to draw”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to pull, draw, drag”). The verb was derived from the noun in Middle English. For the meaning to teach compare typologically Russian ната́скивать (natáskivatʹ) (akin to тащи́ть (taščítʹ)).

Related words

exercise work out

Derived words

accommodation train advanced train control system armored train automatic train control back that train up battering train bullet train cane train cat train choo choo train choo-choo train cold meat train corridor train crack train cross-train dead in the train does this train stop at Dotto train down train drivetrain drive train end-of-train field train foretrain gear train ghost train gravy train hog train hog-train house train house-train how do I get to the train station hype train in train is this train going to it ain't the whistle that pulls the train it is not the whistle that pulls the train it isn't the whistle that pulls the train it's not the whistle that pulls the train Jamaica train land train like a train local train magnetic levitation train Mexican train mixed train mule train one-man train on the hog train on-train orphan train owl train pack-train paper-train pay train person under train planetary gear train power train prism train puffer train

Translations

Abkhaz: адәыҕба Afrikaans: trein Albanian: tren Southern Altai: поезд Southern Altai: паровоз Amharic: ባቡር Arabic: قِطَار Arabic: قطر Arabic: قطار Armenian: գնացք Assamese: ৰেলগাড়ী Asturian: tren Azerbaijani: qatar Azerbaijani: قطار Bashkir: поезд Bashkir: ылау Basque: tren Belarusian: цягні́к Belarusian: по́езд Belarusian: параво́з Bengali: ট্রেন Bengali: রেলগাড়ি Bouyei: hojcey Breton: tren Bulgarian: влак Bulgarian: трен Bulgarian: желе́зница Burmese: မီးရထား Carpathian Rusyn: по́їзд Carpathian Rusyn: по́тяг Carpathian Rusyn: цуґ Catalan: tren Chechen: цӏерпошт Chinese Cantonese: 火車 /火车 Chinese Cantonese: 列車 /列车 Chinese: хуәчә Chinese: 火車 /火车 Chinese: 列車 /列车 Eastern Min Chinese: 火車 /火车 Gan Chinese: 火車 /火车 Hakka Chinese: 火車 /火车 Jin Chinese: 火車 /火车 Chinese Mandarin: 火車 /火车 Chinese Mandarin: 列車 /列车 Northern Min Chinese: 火車 /火车 Wu Chinese: 火車 /火车 Xiang Chinese: 火車 /火车 Chuvash: пуйӑс Ngazidja Comorian: gari la moshi Ngazidja Comorian: shunɗufera Cornish: tren Northern East Cree: ᐅᑖᐹᓐ Southern East Cree: ᐃᔥᑯᑌᐅᑖᐹᓐ Crimean Tatar: tren Crimean Tatar: قطار Czech: vlak Dagbani: ziliji Danish: tog Danish: slæb Arabic: دَرَّبَ Arabic: درب Armenian: վարժեցնել Asturian: entrenar Azerbaijani: təlim etmək Azerbaijani: öyrətmək Bulgarian: обучавам Catalan: ensinistrar Cornish: dyski Cornish: deski Czech: cvičit Danish: træne Dutch: trainen Dutch: oefenen Esperanto: trejni Finnish: kouluttaa Finnish: harjoittaa Finnish: opettaa French: former French: dompter Galician: adestrar German: dressieren German: lehren German: beibringen Greek: προπονώ Greek: εκπαιδεύω Hawaiian: aʻo Hebrew: תִּרְגֵּל Hungarian: kiképez Icelandic: þjálfa
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