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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Train \Train\, n. 1. A heavy long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like 2. (Mil.) The aggregation of men, animals, and vehicles which accompany an army or one of its subdivisions, and transport its baggage, ammunition, supplies, and reserve materials of all kinds. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Train \Train\, v. i. 1. To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company. 2. To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as to train for a boat race. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Train \Train\, n. [F. train, OF tra["i]n, trahin; cf (for some of the senses) F. traine. See {Train}, v.] 1. That which draws along especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. [Obs.] ``Now to my charms, and to my wily trains.'' --Milton. 2. Hence something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also a trap for an animal; a snare. --Halliwell. With cunning trains him to entrap un wares. --Spenser. 3. That which is drawn along in the rear of or after something that which is in the hinder part or rear. Specifically : a That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer. b (Mil.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail. c The tail of a bird. ``The train steers their flights, and turns their bodies, like the rudder of ship.'' --Ray. 4. A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite. The king's daughter with a lovely train. --Addison. My train are men of choice and rarest parts --Shak. 5. A consecution or succession of connected things a series. ``A train of happy sentiments.'' --I. Watts. The train of ills our love would draw behind it --Addison. Rivers now Stream and perpetual draw their humid train. --Milton. Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order --Locke. 6. Regular method; process; course; order as things now in a train for settlement. If things were once in this train, . . . our duty would take root in our nature. --Swift. 7. The number of beats of a watch in any certain time. 8. A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like 9. A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad. 10. A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like 11. (Rolling Mill) A roll train; as a 12-inch train. {Roll train}, or {Train of rolls} (Rolling Mill), a set of plain or grooved rolls for rolling metal into various forms by a series of consecutive operations. {Train mile} (Railroads), a unit employed in estimating running expenses, etc., being one of the total number of miles run by all the trains of a road, or system of roads, as within a given time, or for a given expenditure; -- called also {mile run}. {Train of artillery}, any number of cannon, mortars, etc., with the attendants and carriages which follow them into the field. --Campbell (Dict. Mil. Sci.). {Train of mechanism}, a series of moving pieces, as wheels and pinions, each of which is follower to that which drives it and driver to that which follows it {Train road}, a slight railway for small cars, -- used for construction, or in mining. {Train tackle} (Naut.), a tackle for running guns in and out Syn: Cars. Usage: {Train}, {Cars}. Train is the word universally used in England with reference to railroad traveling; as I came in the morning train. In the United States, the phrase the cars has been extensively introduced in the room of train; as the cars are late; I came in the cars. The English expression is obviously more appropriate, and is prevailing more and more among Americans, to the exclusion of the cars. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Train \Train\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trained}; p. pr & vb n. {Training}.] [OF. trahiner, tra["i]ner,F. tra[^i]ner, LL trahinare trainare fr L. trahere to draw. See {Trail}.] 1. To draw along to trail; to drag. In hollow cube Training his devilish enginery. --Milton. 2. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure. [Obs.] If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call To train ten thousand English to their side --Shak. O, train me not sweet mermaid, with thy note. --Shak. This feast, I'll gage my life, Is but a plot to train you to your ruin. --Ford. 3. To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms. Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation. --Milton. The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train. --Dryden. 4. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen. 5. (Hort.) To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as to train young trees. He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left --Jeffrey. 6. (Mining) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head. {To train a gun} (Mil. & Naut.), to point it at some object either forward or else abaft the beam, that is not directly on the side --Totten. {To train}, or {To train up}, to educate; to teach; to form by instruction or practice; to bring up Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it --Prov. xxii. 6. The first Christians were by great hardships, trained up for glory. --Tillotson. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Accommodation \Ac*com`mo*da"tion\, n. [L. accommodatio, fr accommodare: cf F. accommodation.] 1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to ``The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.'' --Sir M. Hale. 2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. 3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as the accommodations -- that is lodgings and food -- at an inn. --Sir W. Scott. 4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. ``To come to terms of accommodation.'' --Macaulay. 5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. --Paley. 6. (Com.) a A loan of money. b An accommodation bill or note. {Accommodation bill}, or {note} (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. {Accommodation coach}, or {train}, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. {Accommodation ladder} (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from or descending to small boats. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: train n 1: a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive; "express trains don't stop at Princeton Junction" [syn: {railroad train}] 2: a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding: "a string of islands"; "train of mourners"; "a train of thought" [syn: {string}] 3: a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file; "we were part of a caravan of almost a thousand camels"; "they joined the wagon train for safety" [syn: {caravan}, {wagon train}] 4: a series of consequences wrought by an event; "it led to a train of disasters" 5: long back section of a gown that is drawn along the floor; "the bride's train was carried by her two young nephews" 6: a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed; "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain" [syn: {gearing}, {gears}, {geartrain}, {power train}] v 1: prepare for a future task or career; "I am training young minds"; "develop leaders" [syn: {develop}, {prepare}, {educate}] 2: undergo training or instruction [syn: {prepare}] 3: train by instruction and practice; esp. to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children" [syn: {discipline}, {check}, {condition}] 4: prepare for a future role or function; "He is grooming his son to become his successor" [syn: {prepare}, {groom}] 5: train to be discriminative; as of taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: {educate}, {school}, {cultivate}, {civilize}] 6: aim or direct at as of blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment; "Please don't aim at your little brother!" "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent" [syn: {aim}, {take}, {take aim}, {direct}] 7: teach and supervise, as in sports or acting [syn: {coach}] 8: exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition; "She is training for the Olympics" 9: train a plant to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it 10: travel by train
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