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.

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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Aristotle

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.
Tupac Shakur

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?
Steven Wright

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
Albert Camus

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
Henry Miller

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Thomas Paine

I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.
Charlie Sheen

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Morihei Ueshiba