different between parade vs train

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French parade (“show, display, parade, parry, formerly also a halt on horseback”), from Spanish parada (“a halt, stop, pause, a parade”), from parar (“to halt, stop, get ready, prepare”), from Latin parare (“to prepare, in Medieval Latin and Rom. also to halt, stop, prevent, guard against, etc., also dress, trim, adorn”); see pare. Compare parry, a doublet of parade.

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?-r?d', IPA^(key): /p???e?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

parade (countable and uncountable, plural parades)

1. An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd of spectators.
   • 1942, Emily Carr, “British Columbia Nightingale” in The Book of Small, Toronto: Irwin Publishing, 1986, p. 67,^[2]

     The band that played in the Queen’s birthday parade died when you lost sight of it.

2. (dated) A procession of people moving down a street, organized to protest something.

   Synonyms: demonstration, march

   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, Chapter 27,^[3]

     The strikers had announced a parade for Tuesday morning, but Colonel Nixon had forbidden it, the newspapers said.

3. Any succession, series, or display of items.
   • 1652, Thomas Urquhart, Ekskybalauron: or, The Discovery of a Most Exquisite Jewel, London, p. 282,^[4]

     [...] the ravishing assault of a well-disciplined diction, in a parade of curiosly-mustered words in their several ranks and files [...]

   • 1993, Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries, Toronto: Random House of Canada, Chapter 3, p. 85,^[5]

     [...] he applied himself to his Bible morning and night. Its narratives frankly puzzled him—the parade of bearded kings and prophets, their curious ravings.

   • 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, New York: Knopf, Part 4, Chapter 5, p. 325,^[6]

     [...] there was a degree of order in the books, a parade of Loeb classics, archaeology, ancient history.

4. A line of goslings led by one parent and often trailed by the other.
5. (countable, uncountable) Pompous show; formal display or exhibition; outward show (as opposed to substance).

   Synonyms: display, exhibition, ostentation, show

   • 1659, Francis Osborne, “Conjectural Paradoxes” in A Miscellany of Sundry Essayes, Paradoxes, and Problematicall Discourses, Letters and Characters, London, p. 92,^[7]

     [...] Formes little Different from those of a Gally, to no more Thriving an Intention in reference to the Publick, Then Apothecaries paynt and adorn their Shops which is to delude the Ignorant, and hide from Inspection such Arts as lye more in Parade then Substance.

   • 1700, Mary Astell, Some Reflections upon Marriage, London: John Nutt, p. 67,^[8]

     What good Conduct does he shew! what Patience exercise! what Subtilty leave untry’d! what Concealment of his Faults! what Parade of his Vertues! what Government of his Passions!

   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, untitled poem, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, Dublin: George Faulkner, 1735, Volume 2, p. 420,^[9]

     Be rich, but of your Wealth make no Parade;

     At least, before your Master’s Debts are paid.

   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Chapter 9,^[10]

     [...] with all his good and agreeable qualities, there was a sort of parade in his speeches which was very apt to incline her to laugh.
6. (military) An assembling of troops for inspection or to receive orders.

   Synonym: muster

   • 1642, Henry Hexham, The Second Part of The Principles of Art Military, Delft, Chapter 4, p. 31,^[11]

     There is left round about the circuit of the whole quarter, a parallell on all sides some 200, or 250 foote betweene the front of the quarter and the trench, called an Alarme Place, for the souldiers to draw out into Armes, into Parade, or when any Alarme or commotion happens [...]

   • 1681, Andrew Marvell, “Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax,” stanza 39, in Miscellaneous Poems, London: Robert Boulter, p. 87,^[12]

     See how the Flow’rs, as at Parade,

     Under their Colours stand displaid:

     Each Regiment in order grows,

     That of the Tulip Pinke and Rose.

   • 1922, Willa Cather, One of Ours, Chapter 17,^[13]

     The next night the soldiers began teaching the girls to dance [...]. Claude saw that a good deal was going on, and he lectured his men at parade. But he realized that he might as well scold at the sparrows.

   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 18,^[14]

     At the bottom of the maidan the Military Policemen were drawn up, a dust-coloured rank with bayonets glittering. Verrall was facing them, but not in uniform—he seldom put on his uniform for morning parade, not thinking it necessary with mere Military Policemen.

7. (obsolete) Posture of defense; guard.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 779-782,^[15]

     And from thir Ivorie Port the Cherubim

     Forth issuing at th’accustomd hour stood armd

     To thir night watches in warlike Parade,

     When Gabriel to his next in power thus spake.

   • 1693, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: A. and J. Churchill, 7th edition, 1712, § 94, p. 121,^[16]

     [The Tutor] should accustom him to make as much as is possible a true Judgment of Men by those Marks which serve best to shew what they are, and give a Prospect into their Inside, which often shews it self in little Things, especially when they are not in Parade, and upon their Guard.

8. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.

   Synonym: parade ground

9. A public walk; a promenade; now used in street names.
   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Chapter 47,^[17]

     [...] at no great distance from them, where the shoreline curved round, and formed a long riband of shade upon the horizon, a series of points of yellow light began to start into existence, denoting the spot to be the site of Budmouth, where the lamps were being lighted along the parade.

   • 1914, G. K. Chesterton, "The God of the Gongs", in The Wisdom of Father Brown, p. 216:

     After walking a mile or two farther, they found that the shore was beginning to be formally embanked, so as to form something like a parade; the ugly lamp-posts became less few and far between and more ornamental, though quite equally ugly.

10. (zoology, collective, uncommon) A term of venery denoting a herd of elephants on the move.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ???? (parai?)
• ? Urdu: ????? (parai?)

Translations

Verb

parade (third-person singular simple present parades, present participle parading, simple past and past participle paraded)

1. (intransitive) To march in or as if in a procession.

   They paraded around the field, simply to show their discipline.

   • 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Chapter 19,^[18]

     [...] it was her favorite amusement to array herself in the faded brocades, and parade up and down before the long mirror, making stately curtsies, and sweeping her train about with a rustle which delighted her ears.

   • 1929, Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, New York: Knopf, Chapter 22,^[19]

     [...] if you’re going to parade around with that robe hanging open you’re going to get yourself some bronchitis.

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, Chapter 23, p. 166,^[20]

     [...] Mrs. Parsons, the principal’s wife, would play the graduation march while the lower-grade graduates paraded down the aisles and took their seats below the platform.

   • 2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, “April 6, 2001,” p. 381,^[21]

     Stretcher after stretcher paraded into the lot—I was aghast; there seemed no end to them.

2. (transitive) To cause (someone) to march in or as if in a procession; to display or show (something) during a procession.
   • 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, New York: Ballantine Books, Chapter 8, pp. 166-167,^[22]

     I felt a bit like a hunter who’s captured a unicorn and parades it through the town streets [...]

   • 2009, Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna, New York: Harper Luxe, p. 452,^[23]

     They’re parading ad men through Congress to convince the lawmakers that Free Market is the way to go, and that Harry Truman is in league with Karl Marx.

   • 2013, Nadeem Aslam, The Blind Man’s Garden, London: Faber & Faber, Part 2, Chapter 23,^[24]

     They kidnapped an Indian officer and beheaded him, bringing the head back to be paraded in the bazaars of Kotlin in Pakistani Kashmir.

3. (transitive) To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner.

   Synonym: show off

   • 1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan, London: John and H.L. Hunt, Canto 16, stanza 65, p. 96,^[25]

     For she was not a sentimental mourner,

     Parading all her sensibility,

   • 1942, Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road, London: Virago, 1986, Chapter 13, p. 243,^[26]

     I doubt if any woman on earth has gotten better effects than she has with black, white and red. Not only that, she knows how to parade it when she gets it on.

   • 1956, Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine, New York: Pocket Books, 1964, Chapter 16, p. 150,^[27]

     [...] I am sure neither of us cares to parade family business in a lawsuit.

4. (transitive) To march past.

   After the field show, it is customary to parade the stands before exiting the field.

5. (transitive) To march through or along; (of a vehicle) to move slowly through or along.
   • 1818, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 4,^[28]

     “What a delightful place Bath is,” said Mrs. Allen as they sat down near the great clock, after parading the room till they were tired;

   • 1971, Bessie Head, Maru, London: Heinemann, 1995, Part 1, p. 92,^[29]

     They said nothing, but stared at each other with the horror of people exposed to all the torture of the demons who parade the African continent.

   • 1991, Ben Okri, The Famished Road, London: Jonathan Cape, Section 2, Book 6, Chapter 10,^[30]

     That evening the van of the Party for the Poor also paraded our street. They too blared music and made identical claims.

6. (intransitive, military) To assemble to receive orders.
   • 1637, Robert Monro, Monro His Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment, London, p. 64,^[31]

     [...] the other three Companies were ordained by foure a clocke afternoone, to parade in the Market place, and afterwards to march to their Post [...]

   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, Chapter 26,^[32]

     Here it was we made our camp, within plain view of Stirling Castle, whence we could hear the drums beat as some part of the garrison paraded.
7. (military, transitive) To assemble (soldiers, sailors) for inspection, to receive orders, etc.
   • 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo, Chapter 28,^[33]

     In a few moments, we were paraded in the frigate’s gangway; the first lieutenant—an elderly yellow-faced officer, in an ill-cut coat and tarnished gold lace—coming up, and frowning upon us.

   • 1965, John Fowles, The Magus, Boston: Little, Brown, Chapter 53, p. 382,^[34]

     The men were paraded and briefly addressed by the colonel in my presence [...]

8. (intransitive, of geese and other waterfowl) To march in a line led by one parent and often trailed by the other.
   • 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, p. 120,^[35]

     Nearer to the water pink-footed geese and white-faced coots paraded in the groves of rhus and bamboo.

Translations

References

Further reading

• Edward Phillips, compiler (1658) , “Parade”, in The New World of English Words: Or, A General Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Tyler, for Nath[aniel] Brook […], OCLC 81730241, column 1: “Parade, (French) a Term in Military Di?cipline, being an appearance of Souldiers at a ?et time to receive Orders; al?o any great preparation, or appearance.”
• parade in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• parade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• earpad

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French parade, from Middle French parade, from Spanish parada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa??ra?.d?/
• Hyphenation: pa?ra?de
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

parade f (plural parades, diminutive paradetje n)

1. A parade; a festive or ceremonial procession.

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

Verb

parade

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of parader
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of parader
3. second-person singular imperative of parader

Anagrams

• dérapa

Norman

Alternative forms

• pathade (Jersey)

Etymology

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Noun

parade f (plural parades)

1. (Guernsey) parade

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French parade (“show, display, parade, parry, formerly also a halt on horseback”), from Spanish parada (“a halt, stop, pause, a parade”), from parar (“to halt, stop, get ready, prepare”), from Latin parare (“to prepare, in Medieval Latin and Rom. also to halt, stop, prevent, guard against, etc., also dress, trim, adorn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?????d?/
• Rhymes: -d?
• Hyphenation: pa?ra?de

Noun

parade m (definite singular paraden, indefinite plural parader, definite plural paradene)

1. display, exhibition, show

   å sitte på parade

   to be on display

   Synonyms: lit de parade, paradeseng

2. (military) line-up, especially on solemn occasions

   en flott militær flaggparade

   a great military flag parade

   Synonyms: vaktparade, flaggparade, homseparade

   1. (military) a troop department that meets for inspection or a specific service
   2. (military) parade uniform
   3. (military) punishment attendance at school or military camp

      å få parade

      to receive punishment attendance

   Synonym: paradere

3. (sports) movement of the weapon to ward off the opponent's chops or bumps

   Synonym: kvartparade

   1. (boxing or wrestling) a movement to fend off the opponent's blows
   2. (ball game) fast averting movement from a goalie

      målvakten reddet ved en lynrask parade

      the goalkeeper saved by a quick parade

4. (equestrianism) sudden stopping or slowing of a riding horse

   hel parade

   sudden stopping of the horse

   halv parade

   sudden slowing of the horse

Synonyms

• opptog

Related terms

• paradere
• paraderen
• lit de parade

Derived terms

See also

• gravfølge
• karneval
• marsjering
• prosesjon
• triumfmarsj

References

• “parade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “parade” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Anagrams

• draper

Swedish

Adjective

parade

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of parad.

Verb

parade

1. past tense of para.

Anagrams

• rapade

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English trayne (“train”), from Old French train (“a delay, a drawing out”), from traïner (“to pull out, to draw”), from Vulgar Latin *tragin?, from *trag?, from Latin trah? (“to pull, to draw”). The verb was derived from the noun in Middle English.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?n, IPA^(key): /t?e?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Hyphenation: train

Noun

train (plural trains)

1. Elongated portion.
   1. The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground. [from 14th c.]
      • 1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey:

        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 [...].

      • 2011, Imogen Fox, The Guardian, 20 Apr 2011:

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

   2. A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder. [from 15th c.]
      • 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Richard Price:

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

      • 1873, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for the little ones:

        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.

   3. The tail of a bird.
   4. (astronomy) A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere.
   5. (now rare) An animal's trail or track. [from 16th c.]
2. Connected sequence of people or things.
   1. A group of people following an important figure, king etc.; a retinue, a group of retainers. [from 14th c.]
      • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 5 scene 1

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

      • 2009, Anne Easter Smith, The King's Grace:

        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.

   2. A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession. [from 15th c.]

   3. A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something. [from 15th c.]
      • 1872, Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals:

        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.

      • 2012, Rory Carroll, The Guardian, 18 Jun 2012:

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

   4. (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege. [from 16th c.]
   5. (obsolete) State of progress, status, situation (in phrases introduced by in a + adjective). [18th-19th c.]
      • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, London, Volume 4, Letter 26, p. 139,^[1]

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

      • 1779, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Shenstone-Green: or, the New Paradise Lost, London, R. Baldwin, Volume 1, Chapter 7, p. 46,^[2]

        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,^[3]

        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.

      • 1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, London: T. Egerton, Volume 3, Chapter 6, p. 121,^[4]

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

   6. A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence. [from 18th c.]
   7. A series of electrical pulses. [from 19th c.]
   8. A series of specified vehicles, originally tramcars in a mine, and later especially railway carriages, coupled together. [from 19th c.]
   9. A line of connected railway cars or carriages considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail travel. [from 19th c.]
      • 2009, Hanif Kureishi, The Guardian, 24 Jan 2009:

        This winter we thought we'd go to Venice by train, for the adventure.
   10. A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
   11. (computing) A software release schedule.
       • 2008, Michael Bushong, Cathy Gadecki, Aviva Garrett, JUNOS For Dummies (page 16)

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

   12. (sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape. [from 20th c.]
       • 1988, X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (New York, N.Y.), Bomb: Issues 26-29, link

         Then Swooney agreed, "Yeah, let's run a train up the fat cunt."

       • 2005, Violet Blue, Best Women's Erotica 2006: Volume 2001, link

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

       • 2010, Diesel King, A Good Time in the Hood, page 12

         We eventually began to decide that with the endless supply of men we had there was no need to only run trains, or gangbang, the insatiables.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: traein
• ? Welsh: trên

Translations

Verb

train (third-person singular simple present trains, present participle training, simple past and past participle trained)

1. (intransitive) To practice an ability.

2. (transitive) To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
3. (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.

4. To proceed in sequence.
5. (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.

6. (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
   • 1805, Francis Jeffrey, article in The Edinburgh Review

     He trains the young branches to the right hand or to the left.

7. (mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
8. (transitive, video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
   • 2000, "Sensei David O.E. Mohr - Lord Ronin from Q-Link", WTB:"The Last V-8" C128 game -name correction (on newsgroup comp.sys.cbm)

     I got a twix on the 128 version being fixed and trained by Mad Max at M2K BBS 208-587-7636 in Mountain Home Idaho. He fixes many games and puts them on his board. One of my sources for games and utils.

9. (obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
10. (obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
    • c. 1626, John Ford 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

      This feast, I'll gage my life, / Is but a plot to train you to your ruin.

    • 1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman

      Thou hast been trained from thy post by some deep guile — some well-devised stratagem — the cry of some distressed maiden has caught thine ear, or the laughful look of some merry one has taken thine eye.

Derived terms

See also

• exercise
• work out

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English trayne (“treachery”), from Anglo-Norman traine, Middle French traïne, from traïr (“to betray”).

Noun

train (plural trains)

1. (obsolete) Treachery; deceit. [14th-19th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:

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

2. (obsolete) A trick or stratagem. [14th-19th c.]
3. (obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare. [14th-18th c.]
4. (obsolete) A lure; a decoy. [15th-18th c.]

Further reading

• Train on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Artin, Tarin, Tiran, Trina, atrin, intra-, riant, tairn, tarin

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

train

1. first-person singular present indicative of trainen
2. imperative of trainen

Anagrams

• tiran

French

Etymology

From Middle French train, from Old French train, from the verb trahiner (“to pull, drag”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???/

Noun

train m (plural trains)

1. train (rail mounted vehicle)
2. pace
3. (Louisiana) noise

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Spanish: tren
  • ? Moroccan Arabic: ????? (tr?n)
  • ? Tagalog: tren
  • ? Tetelcingo Nahuatl: treni?
  • ? Yaqui: tréen
• ? Sicilian: trenu

Further reading

• “train” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• riant

Norman

Etymology

From Old French train (“a delay, a drawing out”), from trainer (“to pull out, to draw”), from Vulgar Latin *tragin?re, from *tragere, from Latin trah?, trahere (“pull, draw”, verb).

Pronunciation

Noun

train m (plural trains)

1. (Jersey) train