train
Definition of train:
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part of speech: noun
That which is drawn along after something else: the part of a dress which trails behind the wearer: a retinue: a series: process: a line of gunpowder to fire a charge: a line of cars drawn by a locomotive on a railway.
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part of speech: verb
To draw along: to allure: to educate: to discipline: to tame for use, as animals: to cause to grow properly: to prepare men for athletic feats or horses for the race.
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part of speech: noun
That which is drawn along behind; the long part of a dress behind; the after- part of a gun- carriage; a number of followers or attendants; a retinue; a regular method; a course; a series; orderly company; a procession; a line of gunpowder laid to fire a charge; on a railway, a number of carriages or trucks attached behind an engine.
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part of speech: verb
To draw; to form by instruction and practice; to break or tame for use; to cause to assume a proper shape in growth, as a tree; to point a large gun in a particular direction.
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Common misspellings:
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- traine (4.3%)
- traini (0.7%)
- trian (42.1%)
- trai (0.7%)
- trrain (1.4%)
- traiing (0.7%)
- trainin (1.4%)
- trainned (0.7%)
- teain (1.4%)
- traind (0.7%)
- traing (22.1%)
- tran (7.1%)
- tain (6.4%)
- tarin (2.9%)
- tr5ain (1.4%)
- traiin (1.4%)
- trane (3.6%)
- tranin (0.7%)
Usage examples for train:
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I can go to her by train to- morrow morning.
"The Children's Pilgrimage" – L. T. Meade -
What train are you going out on?
"What's-His-Name" – George Barr McCutcheon -
" I think it is that I never fight until I'm sure of winning," he said at last; " if I found I wasn't strong enough I wouldn't go in and be beaten; I'd train hard till I was and then fight."
"Secret Bread" – F. Tennyson Jesse
