noun
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Elongated portion.
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Connected sequence of people or things.
verb
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To practice an ability.
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She trained seven hours a day to prepare for the Olympics.
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To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
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You can't train a pig to write poetry.
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To improve one's fitness.
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I trained with weights all winter.
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To proceed in sequence.
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To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
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The assassin had trained his gun on the minister.
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To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
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The vine had been trained over the pergola.
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To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
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To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
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To draw along; to trail; to drag.
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To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
Examples of train in a Sentence
I was sent to train him, and I will complete my mission.
As slippery and twisted the man was, he knew how to train men to win a battle.
You're a train wreck.
Here is a hogshead of molasses or of brandy directed to John Smith, Cuttingsville, Vermont, some trader among the Green Mountains, who imports for the farmers near his clearing, and now perchance stands over his bulkhead and thinks of the last arrivals on the coast, how they may affect the price for him, telling his customers this moment, as he has told them twenty times before this morning, that he expects some by the next train of prime quality.
She was a train wreck.
You figure out how to train one?
He saw that his hero and commander was following quite a different train of thought.
Yes, but think of the sleigh bells and the sound of the train coming in from Ridgway, clanking and hooting, and billowing its black smoke.
I didn't train and educate you because your grandfather or someone called me.
After we had had our breakfast, Teacher asked one of the train-men in the station if the New York train was made up.
Train him how to run his own operatives.
The train crouched silent on the tracks in a feline pose, as if hovering over a kill.
Four stops later, she rose and tucked the book away, wading through the throngs of people to the door as the train slowed.
A train of events is set in motion that requires Farr to "come out" or face the consequences.
A train hit their car.
She was one of the first off the train while the kid wailed and several people around her muttered.
And then I saw how good his heart is. He's a train wreck, but he's honorable and capable of such good. Kris pulled me into this world and assumed I'd do what I was told like a good little human. But when I told Rhyn I wanted to leave him, he asked for another chance. It's like he woke up then and realized he wasn't in Hell anymore or trapped by his brothers' expectations.
It was an exciting chase of king by king, in which each covered the ground by incredible exertions, shedding their slower-going followers as they went, past Rhagae (Rai) and the Caspian gates, till early one morning Alexander came in sight of the broken train which still clung to the fallen king.
It should have arrived at Hugson's Siding at midnight, but it was already five o'clock and the gray dawn was breaking in the east when the little train slowly rumbled up to the open shed that served for the station-house.
The train drivers and orderlies harnessed and packed the wagons and tied on the loads.
He'll make a good warrior, one I can train to kill a couple pain in the asses I can't get rid of otherwise.
The first one of the group was made on the boiler fixed in the locomotive yard at Stratford, and the two remaining experiments of the group were made while the engine was working a train between London and March.
First, it must be able to exert a tractive force sufficient to start the train under the worst conditions possible on the railway over which it is to operate - for instance, when the train is stopped by signal on a rising gradient where the track is curved and fitted with a guard-rail.
Secondly, it must be able to maintain the train at a given speed against the total resistances of the level or up a gradient of given inclination.
The seats, holding two persons, are placed transversely on each side of the central passage, and have reversible backs, so that passengers can always sit facing the direction in which the train is travelling.
Their use secures a continuous passage-way through the train, but is attended with some discomfort and risk when the train is in motion.
In the United States the danger of the stoves that used to be employed for heating the interiors of the cars has been realized, and now the most common method is by steam taken from the locomotive boiler and circulated through the train in a line of piping, rendered continuous between the cars by flexible coupling-hose.
Pietro Della Vigna, accused of treasonable designs, was disgraced; and the once all-powerful favourite and minister, blinded now and in rags, was dragged in the emperor's train, as a warning to traitors, till in despair he dashed out his brains.
The train whistle blasting repeatedly; Nick with his face to the window, calling for her.
So it was with slight trepidation I boarded the train in Cardiff on Saturday morning.
Operational Conversion Units train qualified aircrew for different aircraft types.
The canal over canal aqueduct is clearly visible from the train.
We met a Hospital train here, with the patients looking very contented.
The little girl stood still to watch until the train had disappeared around a curve; then she turned to see where she was.
Then she happened to remember that in a corner of her suit-case were one or two crackers that were left over from her luncheon on the train, and she went to the buggy and brought them.
When the train at last pulled into the station at Boston it was as if a beautiful fairy tale had come true.
Almost before I knew it, the train stopped at the Tuscumbia station, and there on the platform stood the whole family.
He said no, it would not be called for about fifteen minutes; so we sat down to wait; but in a moment the man came back and asked Teacher if we would like to go to the train at once.
They said somebody had met every train for two days.
Almost every one on the train was a physician, and Dr. Keller seemed to know them all.
It was plain that she was following a train of thought independent of her sister-in-law's words.
He had been helping train her, and when she was old enough to have a foal, it would be his.
The train lurched forward, the gentle hum of electricity soon pushing her into a near-doze, until the train lurched to a halt.
If there are several driving-axles in a train, the product Tw must be estimated for each separately; then the sum of the products will be equal to RV.
Motors may be applied to every axle in the train, and their individual torques adjusted to values suitable to the weights naturally carried by the several axles.
A side wind causes excessive flange friction on the leeward side of the train, and increases the tractive resistances therefore very considerably, even though its velocity be relatively moderate.
Hence Engine resistance, R e = 80 X20 = 1600 lb Vehicle resistance, R v =200 X8.5 = 1700 „ Train resistance, R = 3300 „ The speed, 40 m.
This is the horse-power, therefore, which must be developed in the cylinders to maintain the train in motion at a uniform speed of 40 m.
Hence if a train is travelling up the gradient at a speed of V ft.
Therefore the horse-power which must be developed in the cylinders to effect this change of speed is from (21) H.P.280X2240X0 113X59 = _237 55 0 X 32 The rate of working is negative when the train is retarded; for instance, if the train had changed its speed from 41 to 40 m.