train
Elongated or trailing 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.
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 [...].
He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather.
A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.
The tail of a bird.
Let frantike Talbot triumph for a while, / And like a Peacock sweepe along his tayle, / Wee’le pull his Plumes, and take away his Trayne, / If Dolphin and the rest will be but rul’d.
(obsolete) The tail of an animal in general.
(poetic) The elongated body or form of something narrow and winding, such as the course of a river or the body of a snake.
(astronomy) A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere or accompanying a comet as it nears the sun; tail.
Finally, all men saw that astronomical knowledge lied not, and they awaited the comet. Its approach was not, at first, seemingly rapid; nor was its appearance of very unusual character. It was of a dull red, and had little perceptible train.
(rare) An animal's trail or track.
(obsolete, hunting) Something dragged or laid along the ground to form a trail of scent or food along which to lure an animal.
(obsolete) Gait or manner of running of a horse.
Connected sequence of people or things.
A group of people following an important figure such as a king or noble; a retinue, a group of retainers.
Sir, I invite your Highness and your train / To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest / For this one night
A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.
(figuratively, poetic) A group or class of people.
(military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.
A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something.
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.
A set of things, events, or circumstances that follow after or as a consequence; aftermath, wake.
(obsolete) State of progress, status, situation; also proper order or situation.
As we had been in a good train for several days past, I thought it not prudent to break with him, for little matters.
[…] every thing was now in a fairer train for Miss Crawford’s marrying Edmund than it had ever been before.
A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.
A series of electrical pulses.
A series of specified vehicles (originally tramcars in a mine as usual, later especially railway carriages) coupled together.
A mechanical (originally steam-powered, now typically diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track or path; a line of connected wagons considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail or road travel.
We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. […] As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.
(informal) A service on a railway line.
A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
(computing) A software release schedule.
(sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape.
To practice an ability.
To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
To improve one's fitness.
To proceed in sequence.
To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
(horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
(machine learning) To feed data into an algorithm, usually based on a neural network, to create a machine learning model that can perform some task.
To transport (something) by train.
(mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
(video games) To create a trainer (cheat patch) for; to apply cheats to (a game).
(obsolete) To draw (something) along; to trail, to drag (something).
In hollow cube / Training his devilish enginery.
(of clothing) To trail down or along the ground.
(obsolete) Treachery; deceit.
(obsolete) A trick or stratagem.
(obsolete) A trap for animals, a snare; (figuratively) a trap in general.
(obsolete) A lure; a decoy.
(obsolete, falconry) A live bird, handicapped or disabled in some way, provided for a young hawk to kill as training or enticement.
(obsolete) A clue or trace.
(obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
If but a dozen French / Were there in arms, they would be as a call / To train ten thousand English to their side.
O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note.
(obsolete, colloquial) To be on intimate terms with.
(obsolete) Train oil, whale oil.
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