| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  tr n |
| NOUN: | 1. A series of connected railroad cars pulled or pushed by one or more locomotives. 2. A long line of moving people, animals, or vehicles. 3. The personnel, vehicles, and equipment following and providing supplies and services to a combat unit. 4. A part of a gown that trails behind the wearer. 5. A staff of people following in attendance; a retinue. 6a. An orderly succession of related events or thoughts; a sequence. See synonyms at series. b. A series of consequences wrought by an event; aftermath. 7. A set of linked mechanical parts: a train of gears. 8. A string of gunpowder that acts as a fuse for exploding a charge. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: trained, train·ing, trains
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To coach in or accustom to a mode of behavior or performance. 2. To make proficient with specialized instruction and practice. See synonyms at teach. 3. To prepare physically, as with a regimen: train athletes for track-and-field competition. 4. To cause (a plant or one's hair) to take a desired course or shape, as by manipulating. 5. To focus on or aim at (a goal, mark, or target); direct. See synonyms at aim. 6. To let drag behind; trail. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To give or undergo a course of training: trained daily for the marathon. 2. To travel by railroad train. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, trailing part of a gown, from Old French, from trainer, to drag, from Vulgar Latin *trag nre, from *tragere, to pull, back-formation from tractus, past participle of Latin trahere. | | OTHER FORMS: | train a·bil i·ty —NOUN
traina·ble —ADJECTIVE
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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