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Definition of Train

Train A heavy long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like. 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. To draw along; to trail; to drag. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure. 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. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen. 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. To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head. To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company. To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race. That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare. That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear. That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer. The after part of a gun carriage; the trail. The tail of a bird. A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite. A consecution or succession of connected things; a series. Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement. The number of beats of a watch in any certain time. A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like. A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad. A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like. A roll train; as, a 12-inch train. Related Definitions: Accompany, Accustom, After, Aggregation, All, Allure, Allurement, Along, Also, Ammunition, An, And, Animal, Any, Appearance, Arms, Army, Artifice, As, Attract, Baggage, Be, Behind, Bending, Bird, Boat, Body, Break, By, Canada, Carriage, Certain, Charge, Company, Connected, Consecution, Contest, Course, Diet, Direct, Discipline, Do, Drag, Draw, Drawn, Drilled, Duty, Educate, Entice, Enticement, Espalier, Especially, Exercise, Fire, For, Form, Gown, Gun, Gunpowder, Hawk, Head, Heavy, Hence, Hinder, In, Instruction, Is, Laid, Lead, Like, Line, Lode, Long, Lopping, Lure, Manual, Men, Merchandise, Method, Military, Militia, Mine, Mineral, Now, Number, Of, On, One, Or, Order, Oxen, Part, Persuasion, Physical, Practice, Prepare, Process, Proper, Pruning, Race, Railroad, Rear, Regular, Reserve, Retinue, Roll, Series, Settlement, Shape, Sleigh, Snare, Something, Stratagem, Succession, Suite, Supplies, Tail, Tame, Teach, That, The, Tied, Time, To, Trace, Trail, Train, Transport, Transportation, Trap, Use, Used, Wall, Watch, Wearer, Which, Wood, Young

Train Quotations The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before. Gilbert K. Chesterton I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. Oscar Wilde The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it. Gilbert K. Chesterton What is different is I am giving the kids a chance to train every day. Not only once a day, but sometimes when they do not have school, we will try to do something in the morning too. Thomas Dooley I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match. Mia Hamm

Train Translations train in Afrikaans is trein train in Danish is tog train in Dutch is gevolg train in Finnish is juna, koulia train in German is Zug, Eisenbahn train in Italian is ammaestrare, educare, allenamento, ferroviario train in Latin is comitatus train in Norwegian is tog train in Portuguese is comboio, trem train in Spanish is adiestrar, ferrocarril, entrenar, tren

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