Meaning of train | Babel Free

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1. Elongated or trailing portion. The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. Elongated or trailing portion.
3. The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
4. Treachery; deceit.
   obsolete, uncountable
5. A surname.
6. train oil, whale oil
   obsolete, uncountable
7. The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
8. A trick or stratagem.
   countable, obsolete
9. A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.
10. (negative untrained) having had teaching. She's a trained nurse; a well-trained dog. oplei, afrig مُدَرَّب، مُثَقَّف обучен treinado zkušený; cvičený ausgebildet uddannet; -trænet εκπαιδευμένος diplomado; cualificado, capacitado; adiestrado koolitatud, dresseeritud آموزش دیده koulutettu qualifiéמוכשר, מיומן प्रशि‍क्षित izučen, uvježban gyakorlott terlatih þjálfaður, faglærður qualificato; addestrato 訓練を受けた 훈련 받은 (ap)mokytas, treniruotas, dresiruotas kvalificēts; trenēts; dresēts terlatih gesc...
    negative
11. A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder
12. A trap for animals, a snare; (figuratively) a trap in general.
    countable, obsolete
13. The tail of a bird.
14. a person who is being trained. He's a trainee with an industrial firm; (also adjective) a trainee teacher. leerling مُتَدَرِّب، شَخْص تَحْت التَّدْريب човек, когото обучават estagiário praktikant; učňovský der/die Auszubildende; Ausbildungs-... praktikant; -praktikant εκπαιδευόμενοςaprendiz, persona que está haciendo prácticas praktikant کارآموز harjoittelija stagiaire, apprenti/-ie חניך प्रशिक्षार्थी osoba na izobrazbi gyakornok; gyakorló tanárjelölt stb. peserta latihan nemi, lærlingur tiro...
    also adjective
15. The tail of a bird
16. A lure; a decoy.
    countable, obsolete
17. The tail of an animal in general.
    obsolete
18. entrenar; entrenarse.
19. The tail of an animal in general
20. A live bird, handicapped or disabled in some way, provided for a young hawk to kill as training or enticement.
    countable, obsolete
21. The elongated body or form of something narrow and winding, such as the course of a river or the body of a snake.
    poetic
22. A series of connected railroad cars pulled or pushed by one or more locomotives.
23. A clue or trace.
    countable, obsolete
24. 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.
25. A long line of moving people, animals, or vehicles.
26. An animal's trail or track.
    archaic
27. The personnel, vehicles, and equipment following and providing supplies and services to a combat unit.
28. Something dragged or laid along the ground to form a trail of scent or food along which to lure an animal.
    obsolete
29. A part of a gown that trails behind the wearer.
30. Gait or manner of running of a horse.
    obsolete
31. A staff of people following in attendance; a retinue.
32. Connected sequence of people or things.
33. A group of people following an important figure such as a king or noble; a retinue, a group of retainers.
34. An orderly succession of related events or thoughts; a sequence. See Synonyms at series.
35. A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.
36. A set of linked mechanical parts: a train of gears.
37. A group or class of people.
    figuratively, poetic
38. The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.
39. A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something.
40. A set of things, events, or circumstances that follow after or as a consequence; aftermath, wake.
41. State of progress, status, situation (in phrases introduced by in a + adjective); also proper order or situation (introduced by in or in a alone).
    obsolete
42. A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.
43. A series of electrical pulses.
44. A series of specified vehicles (originally tramcars in a mine as usual, later especially railway carriages) coupled together.
45. A mechanical (originally steam-powered, now typically diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track or path; a line of connected wagons considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail or road travel.
46. A service on a railway line.
    informal
47. A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
48. A software release schedule.
49. An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape.
    slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Unfortunately, the leading bridesmaid stepped on the bride's train as they were walking down the aisle.”

“They called each other by their Christian name, were always arm in arm when they walked, pinned up each other's train for the dance, and were not to be divided in the set [...].”

“He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a lady does her train in bad weather.”

“Lace sleeves, a demure neckline, a full skirt and a relatively modest train.”

“[E]mancipation is put into such a train that in a few years there will be no slaves Northward of Maryland.”

“A party was sent to search, and there they found all the powder ready prepared, and, moreover, a man with a lantern, one Guy Fawkes, who had undertaken to be the one to set fire to the train of gunpowder, hoping to escape before the explosion.”

“Let frantike Talbot triumph for a while, And like a Peacock ſweepe along his tayle, Wee’le pull his Plumes, and take away his Trayne, If Dolphin and the reſt will be but rul’d.”

“The burning evening sun lighted with mellow gold the coats of the fierce little tiger-kittens — orange silk with stripes of black velvet — the broken amethysts and ruined emeralds of the poor bird's train cruelly scattered over the trampled grass”

“Fawn and pearl of the lyre-bird's train, / Sheen of the bronze-wing, blue of the crane; / Cream of the plover, grey of the dove; / These are the hues of the land I love!”

“Before the Spanish Conquest, the long, slender, green plumes of the male bird's train adorned the headgear of Aztec and Mayan kings and chieftains, as one may clearly see in modern restorations of ancient scenes.”

“Finally, all men saw that astronomical knowledge lied not, and they awaited the comet. Its approach was not, at first, seemingly rapid; nor was its appearance of very unusual character. It was of a dull red, and had little perceptible train.”

“It sometimes happens that the train is directed towards the sun, or makes a certain angle with the line joining the head and the sun; it was then called by the ancient astronomers the beard of the comet.”

“...the comet expands, its vapours are developed and escape in jets towards the radiant star; then we see them driven back on each side of the head and the caudal train commencing.”

“Sir, I invite your Highness and your train / To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest /For this one night”

“The imperial train arrived on November 22 at Te-chou, a city in western Shantung along the border of Chihli.”

“Grace was glad the citizenry did not know Katherine Gordon was in the king’s train, but she was beginning to understand Henry’s motive for including the pretender’s wife.”

“Our party formed a train at the funeral parlor before departing for the burial.”

“Theſe are the cruel pirates of Argier, That damned train, the ſcum of Affrica, […]”

“A man may be absorbed in the deepest thought, and his brow will remain smooth until he encounters some obstacle in his train of reasoning, or is interrupted by some disturbance, and then a frown passes like a shadow over his brow.”

“Failure to acknowledge an A.T.C. warning or excessive speed starts the same train of events until correction is made.”

“"Where was I?" he asked several times during the lunch, losing his train of thought.”

“Thus the development of reason is accompanied by no inner blight or withering. It does not bring in its train loss of faith or weakening of sympathies.”

“in a fair / better / worse train”

“As we had been in a good train for several days past, I thought it not prudent to break with him, for little matters.”

“I took care that my absence should neither be lamented by the poor nor the rich. I put every thing in a fair train of going on smoothly, and actually set out, with my steward, for my estate in Wales at dawning of the day.”

“1787, George Washington, letter to Alexander Hamilton dated 10 July, 1787, in The Writings of George Washington, Boston: American Stationers’ Company, 1837, Volume 9, p. 260, When I refer you to the state of the counsels, which prevailed at the period you left this city, and add that they are now if possible in a worse train than ever, you will find but little ground on which the hope of a good establishment can be formed.”

“[…] every thing was now in a fairer train for Miss Crawford’s marrying Edmund than it had ever been before.”

“The train for Edinburgh will leave in 5 minutes.”

“The train arrived at the station.”

“We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.[…]As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.”

“This winter we thought we'd go to Venice by train, for the adventure.”

“A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.”

“What steps do development engineers follow when adding new feature code? How do they support different software versions or release trains?”

““You want us to run a train on you?””

“In the meane time, through that false Ladies traine / He was surprisd, and buried under beare, / Ne ever to his worke returnd againe [...].”

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