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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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pronounce
English
Etymology
Recorded since c.1330 as Middle English pronouncen (“to utter, declare officially”), from Old French prononcier, from Latin pr?n?nti?, itself from pr?- (“forth, out, in public”) + n?nti? (“I announce”) from n?ntius (“messenger”).
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p???na?ns/
- Rhymes: -a?ns
Verb
pronounce (third-person singular simple present pronounces, present participle pronouncing, simple past and past participle pronounced)
- (transitive) To declare formally, officially or ceremoniously.
- (transitive) To declare authoritatively, or as a formal expert opinion.
- (transitive) To pronounce dead.
- 2015, April 30, Carol H. Allan, David R. Fowler (medical examiners), Freddie Gray autopsy: excerpt from the report, published in The Baltimore Sun, June 24, 2015
- Despite resuscitative efforts, Mr. Gray was pronounced on 4/19/2015.
- 2015, April 30, Carol H. Allan, David R. Fowler (medical examiners), Freddie Gray autopsy: excerpt from the report, published in The Baltimore Sun, June 24, 2015
- (transitive) To pronounce dead.
- (intransitive) To pass judgment.
- (transitive) To sound out (a word or phrase); to articulate.
- 1869, Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, page 182:
- They spell it "Vinci" and pronounce it "Vinchy". Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
- (in passive) To sound like.
- 1869, Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, page 182:
- (intransitive) To produce the components of speech.
- (transitive) To read aloud.
Derived terms
Related terms
- pronouncement
- pronunciation
Translations
Anagrams
- couponner
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