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train
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)
- Elongated 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. [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.
- 1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey:
- 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.
- 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Richard Price:
- The tail of a bird.
- (astronomy) A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere.
- (now rare) An animal's trail or track. [from 16th c.]
- 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.]
- Connected sequence of people or things.
- 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.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 5 scene 1
- 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.]
- 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.
- 1872, Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals:
- (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege. [from 16th c.]
- (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.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, London, Volume 4, Letter 26, p. 139,[1]
- A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence. [from 18th c.]
- A series of electrical pulses. [from 19th c.]
- A series of specified vehicles, originally tramcars in a mine, and later especially railway carriages, coupled together. [from 19th c.]
- 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.
- 2009, Hanif Kureishi, The Guardian, 24 Jan 2009:
- A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
- (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?
- 2008, Michael Bushong, Cathy Gadecki, Aviva Garrett, JUNOS For Dummies (page 16)
- (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.
- 1988, X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (New York, N.Y.), Bomb: Issues 26-29, link
- A group of people following an important figure, king etc.; a retinue, a group of retainers. [from 14th c.]
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)
- (intransitive) To practice an ability.
- (transitive) To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
- (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
- To proceed in sequence.
- (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
- (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.
- 1805, Francis Jeffrey, article in The Edinburgh Review
- (mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
- (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.
- 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)
- (obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
- (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.
- c. 1626, John Ford 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
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)
- (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 [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:
- (obsolete) A trick or stratagem. [14th-19th c.]
- (obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare. [14th-18th c.]
- (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
- first-person singular present indicative of trainen
- 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)
- train (rail mounted vehicle)
- pace
- (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)
- (Jersey) train
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content
English
Etymology 1
From Middle French content (“satisfied”), from Latin contentus (“contained; satisfied”), past participle of contin?re (“to contain”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: k?nt?nt', IPA(key): /k?n?t?nt/
- Hyphenation: con?tent
Adjective
content (comparative more content or contenter, superlative most content)
- Satisfied, pleased, contented.
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.
Translations
Noun
content (uncountable)
- Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
- They were in a state of sleepy content after supper.
- 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary, Oxford 2009, p. 51:
- ‘It is very difficult to […] learn to seek content, instead of happiness.’
- 1791, Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story, Penguin 2009, p. 287:
- ‘I understand you—upon every other subject, but the only one, my content requires, you are ready to obey me.’
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2: Act 1, Scene 1
- Such is the fullness of my heart's content.
- (obsolete) Acquiescence without examination.
- 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
- The sense they humbly take upon content.
- 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
- That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2: Act 1, Scene 1
- So will I in England work your grace's full content.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2: Act 1, Scene 1
- (Britain, House of Lords) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmate vote.
- (Britain, House of Lords, by metonymy) A member who votes in assent.
Derived terms
- contentment
- contentness
- discontent
- malcontent
- to one's heart's content
Interjection
content
- (archaic) Alright, agreed.
Verb
content (third-person singular simple present contents, present participle contenting, simple past and past participle contented)
- (transitive) To give contentment or satisfaction; to satisfy; to make happy.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Mark 15:15,[1]
- And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
- 1741, Isaac Watts, The Improvement of the Mind, London: James Brackstone, Part I, Chapter 14, p. 194,[2]
- Do not content yourselves with meer Words and Names, lest your laboured Improvements only amass a heap of unintelligible Phrases, and you feed upon Husks instead of Kernels.
- 2016, Felicity Cloake, “How to make the perfect cacio e pepe,” The Guardian, 3 November, 2016,[3]
- Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy recommend rigatoni in the Geometry of Pasta, and Christopher Boswell, the chef behind the Rome Sustainable Food project, prefers wholemeal paccheri or rigatoni in his book Pasta, on the basis that “the flavour of the whole grain is strong enough to stand up to the sharp and salty sheep’s milk cheese” (as I can find neither easily, I have to content myself with brown penne instead).
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Mark 15:15,[1]
- (transitive, obsolete) To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.
- c. 1599 William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act III, Scene 2,[4]
- Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.
- c. 1599 William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act III, Scene 2,[4]
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English content (plural contentes, contence), from Latin contentus, past participle of contin?re (“to hold in, contain”), as Etymology 1, above. English apparently developed a substantive form of the adjective, which is not mirrored in Romance languages.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?n.t?nt/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?n.t?nt/
- (US) enPR: k?n't?nt, IPA(key): /?k?n.t?nt/
- Hyphenation: con?tent
Adjective
content (comparative more content, superlative most content)
- (obsolete) Contained.
Noun
content (countable and uncountable, plural contents)
- (uncountable) That which is contained.
- Subject matter; that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
- The amount of material contained; contents.
- (obsolete) Capacity for containing.
- (mathematics) The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon).
- (algebra, ring theory, of a polynomial with coefficients in a GCD domain) The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.
Derived terms
Translations
Related terms
Further reading
- content in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- content in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Connett
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin contentus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /kon?tent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kun?ten/
Adjective
content (feminine contenta, masculine plural contents, feminine plural contentes)
- content, satisfied, pleased
- Antonym: descontent
Derived terms
- descontent
Further reading
- “content” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “content” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “content” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “content” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology 1
From Middle French content, from Old French, borrowed from Latin contentus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.t??/
- Homophones: comptant, contant, contents
Adjective
content (feminine singular contente, masculine plural contents, feminine plural contentes)
- content, satisfied, pleased
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??t/
Verb
content
- third-person plural present/subjunctive of conter
Further reading
- “content” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Louisiana Creole French
Etymology
From French content (“content”), compare Haitian Creole kontan.
Verb
content
- to be contented
References
- Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French content, borrowed from Latin contentus.
Adjective
content m (feminine singular contente, masculine plural contens, feminine plural contentes)
- happy; satisfied; content
Descendants
- French: content
Norman
Alternative forms
- caontent (Guernsey)
Etymology
From Old French, borrowed from Latin contentus (“having been held together, contained”), from contine?, contin?re (“hold or keep together, surround, contain”).
Adjective
content m
- (Jersey) happy
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