different between train vs court

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English court, from Old French cort, curt, from Latin c?rtem (accusative of c?rs), ultimately from cohors. Doublet of cohort.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko(?)?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko?t/
• Homophone: caught (non-rhotic with the horse-hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

court (plural courts)

1. An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
   • 1832, Alfred Tennyson, The Palace of Art

     And round the cool green courts there ran a row / Of cloisters.
   1. (US, Australia) A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
2. (social) Royal society.
   1. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.
   2. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
      • 1819-1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan

        Love rules the court, the camp, the grove.

   3. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
3. Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone
   • 1667, John Evelyn, Diary entry 18 April, 1667

     I went to make court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle at their house in Clerkenwell.

4. (law) The administration of law.
   1. The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.

   2. The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.
   3. (often capitalized) The judge or judges or other judicial officer presiding in a particular matter, particularly as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
   4. The session of a judicial assembly.

   5. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
5. (sports) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, squash, badminton, volleyball and some other games
   1. one of the two divisions of a tennis, badminton or volleyball court, in which the player or players of each team play
      • 2010, Cara Marcus, Faulkner Hospital

        The photograph at left captures a great serve by Dr. Sadowsky, who will never forget one of Bobby Riggs's serves, which had such a great spin that it landed in his court and bounced back to the other side of the net before he had a chance to return it.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Russian: ???? (kort) (see there for further descendants)

Translations

Verb

court (third-person singular simple present courts, present participle courting, simple past and past participle courted)

1. (transitive) To seek to achieve or win.
2. (transitive) To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
3. (transitive) To try to win a commitment to marry from.
4. (transitive) To engage in behavior leading to mating.

5. (transitive) To attempt to attract.
6. (transitive) To attempt to gain alliance with.
7. (intransitive) To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.

   Synonyms: romance, solicit; see also Thesaurus:woo

8. (intransitive) To engage in courtship behavior.

9. (transitive) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

   Synonyms: charm, entrance; see also Thesaurus:allure

Translations

Further reading

• court on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Crout, Curto, Turco, Turco-, crout

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?/
• Homophones: cour, coure, courent, coures, courre, cours, courts
• Rhymes: -u?

Etymology 1

From Old French curt, from Latin curtus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.

Adjective

court (feminine singular courte, masculine plural courts, feminine plural courtes)

1. short

Derived terms

Related terms

• accourcir
• écourter

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

court

1. third-person singular present indicative of courir

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English court.

Noun

court m (plural courts)

1. (tennis) court

Derived terms

• fond de court

Further reading

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• courte

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French cort, curt.

Noun

court (plural courts)

1. court (place, building)

Descendants

• English: court

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French cort, curt, etc.

Noun

court f (plural cours)

1. court (of law)
2. court (of a palace, etc.)

Descendants

• French: cour

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (court, supplement)

Norman

Etymology

From Old French curt, from Latin curtus (“shortened, short”).

Adjective

court m

1. (Jersey) short

Derived terms

• courtément (adverb)

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French curt, from Latin curtus.

Adjective

court m (feminine singular courte, masculine plural courts, feminine plural courtes, feminine plural (before noun) courtès)

1. short