Definitions for train

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train train

Spelling: [treyn]

IPA: /treɪn/

Train is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in train (ainrt).

Definitions for train

noun

1. Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
2. a line or procession of persons, vehicles, animals, etc., traveling together.
3. Military. an aggregation of vehicles, animals, and personnel accompanying an army to carry supplies, baggage, ammunition, etc.
4. a series or row of objects or parts.
5. Machinery. a connected set of three or more rotating elements, usually gears, through which force is transmitted, or motion or torque changed.
6. order, especially proper order:
7. something that is drawn along; a trailing part.
8. an elongated part of a skirt or robe trailing behind on the ground.
9. a trail or stream of something from a moving object.
10. a line or succession of persons or things following one after the other.
11. a body of followers or attendants; retinue.
12. a series of proceedings, events, ideas, etc.
13. the series of results or circumstances following or proceeding from an event, action, etc.; aftermath:
14. a succession of connected ideas; a course of reasoning:
15. Astronomy. the trace of light created by a meteor falling through the earth's atmosphere. the tail of a comet.
16. a line of combustible material, as gunpowder, for leading fire to an explosive charge.
17. Physics. a succession of wave fronts, oscillations, or the like.

verb (used with object)

1. to develop or form the habits, thoughts, or behavior of (a child or other person) by discipline and instruction:
2. to make proficient by instruction and practice, as in some art, profession, or work:
3. to make (a person) fit by proper exercise, diet, practice, etc., as for an athletic performance.
4. to discipline and instruct (an animal), as in the performance of tasks or tricks.
5. to treat or manipulate so as to bring into some desired form, position, direction, etc.:
6. Horticulture. to bring (a plant, branch, etc.) into a particular shape or position, by bending, pruning, or the like.
7. to bring to bear on some object; point, aim, or direct, as a firearm, camera, telescope, or eye.
8. to entice; allure.

verb (used without object)

1. to give the discipline and instruction, drill, practice, etc., designed to impart proficiency or efficiency.
2. to undergo discipline and instruction, drill, etc.
3. to get oneself into condition for an athletic performance through exercise, diet, practice, etc.
4. to travel or go by train:

Origin of train

1350-1400; (v.) late Middle English traynyn to pull or drag in the rear Middle French trainer, Old French tra(h)iner Vulgar Latin *tragīnāre, derivative of *tragīna something dragged or drawn

Examples for train

“We met the smuggler in the train station; he came to speak with us about the services he provided,” Yazbek says.

He is to be taken to the depot, to go to Virginia in the first train.

Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the train immediately.

The U.S. only plans to train roughly 3,000 Iraqi troops in the first year.

The lawyer left them at the next station to wait for a train back to Butte.

As the train started he swung himself off with a sad little "Be good to yourself!"

From there we took the train to Nice, France, but the French border control caught us and sent us back to Italy.

They walked rapidly to the station, but too late, of course, for the train.

The U.S. military is finally starting to train Iraqi troops to fight ISIS in restive Anbar province.

And now, as the train took her swiftly to her fate, she made the best of it.