meaning of train
1. Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling.
2. To draw along; to trail; to drag.
3. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
4. 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.
5. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
6. 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.
7. To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head.
8. To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company.
9. To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc. , for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.
10. That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement.
11. Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare.
12. That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear.
13. That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.
14. The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.
15. The tail of a bird.
16. A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite.
17. A consecution or succession of connected things; a series.
18. Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement.
19. The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
20. A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.
21. A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad.
22. A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.
23. A roll train; as, a 12-inch train.
24. wheelwork consisting of 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
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