different between train vs tutor

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tut?/
• • Homophones: tooter, Tudor
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tju?t?/
• Rhymes: -u?t?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur (French tuteur), from Latin t?tor (“a watcher, protector, guardian”), from tueor (“protect”); see tuition.

Alternative forms

• tutour (archaic)

Noun

tutor (plural tutors, feminine tutoress)

1. One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.

2. (Britain) A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.
3. (obsolete or Quebec law) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.

Synonyms

• (one who teaches): preceptor

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

tutor (third-person singular simple present tutors, present participle tutoring, simple past and past participle tutored)

1. (transitive) To instruct or teach, especially an individual or small group.

2. (transitive, archaic) To treat with authority or sternness.

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “tutor”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• tutor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tutor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of Demonic tutor, name of an early Magic: The Gathering card with this effect.

Noun

tutor (plural tutors)

1. (collectible card games) A card that allows one to search one's deck for one or more other cards.

Verb

tutor (third-person singular simple present tutors, present participle tutoring, simple past and past participle tutored)

1. (collectible card games) To fetch a card from one's deck.

Anagrams

• Routt, Trout, trout

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tutor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /tu?to/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /tu?to?/

Noun

tutor m (plural tutors, feminine tutora)

1. tutor (teacher)
2. guardian (person responsible for another)

Related terms

• tutela
• tutoria

Further reading

• “tutor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tutor.

Noun

tutor

1. tutor (person)

Declension

Anagrams

• rutot, rutto, torut, turot

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu?.tor/, [?t?u?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.tor/, [?t?u?t??r]

Etymology 1

From tueor +? -tor, via the old past participle t?tus (later replaced by tuitus).

Noun

t?tor m (genitive t?t?ris, feminine t?tr?x); third declension

1. watcher, protector, defender
2. guardian (of minors)
3. tutor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Etymology 2

From tueor +? -t?, via the old past participle t?tus (later replaced by tuitus).

Verb

t?tor (present infinitive t?t?r? or t?t?rier, perfect active t?t?tus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. I guard, protect, defend

Conjugation

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested for this verb.

Descendants

References

• tutor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tutor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tutor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tutor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tutor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish

Etymology

From English tutor, from Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur, from Latin t?tor, from tueor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tu.t?r/

Noun

tutor m pers

1. tutor (university officer responsible for students in a particular hall)
2. (archaic) tutor (one who teaches another in a one-on-one or small-group interaction)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) tutorski

Further reading

• tutor in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tutor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tutor, tutorem.

Noun

tutor m (plural tutores, feminine tutora, feminine plural tutoras)

1. tutor (one who teaches in a one-on-one or small-group interaction)
2. (law) guardian (person legally responsible for a minor or incompetent person)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tutor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tû?tor/
• Hyphenation: tu?tor

Noun

t?tor m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. tutor
2. guardian

Declension

References

• “tutor” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tutor, tutorem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?to?/, [t?u?t?o?]

Noun

tutor m or f (plural tutores, feminine tutora, feminine plural tutoras)

1. guardian (person responsible for another)
2. tutor (teacher)

Related terms

• tutela
• tutoría

Further reading

• “tutor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Noun

tutor

1. indefinite plural of tuta