train
verb
[ treɪn ]
• teach (a person or animal) a particular skill or type of behaviour through practice and instruction over a period of time.
• "the scheme trains people for promotion"
Similar:
instruct,
teach,
coach,
tutor,
give lessons to,
school,
educate,
upskill,
edify,
prime,
drill,
demonstrate something to,
make something clear to,
inculcate,
indoctrinate,
condition,
• point or aim something, typically a gun or camera, at.
• "the detective trained his gun on the side door"
Similar:
aim,
point,
direct,
level,
line something up,
turn something on,
fix something on,
sight,
position,
focus,
take aim,
zero in on,
• go by train.
• "Charles trained to London with Emma"
• entice (someone).
train
noun
• a series of connected railway carriages or wagons moved by a locomotive or by integral motors.
• "a freight train"
• a number of vehicles or pack animals moving in a line.
• "a camel train"
Similar:
procession,
line,
file,
column,
convoy,
cavalcade,
caravan,
rank,
string,
succession,
progression,
array,
queue,
• a long piece of material attached to the back of a formal dress or robe that trails along the ground.
• "the bride wore a cream silk dress with a train"
• a trail of gunpowder for firing an explosive charge.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French train (masculine), traine (feminine), from trahiner (verb), from Latin trahere ‘pull, draw’. Early noun senses were ‘trailing part of a robe’ and ‘retinue’; the latter gave rise to ‘line of travelling people or vehicles’, later ‘a connected series of things’. The early verb sense ‘cause a plant to grow in a desired shape’ was the basis of the sense ‘instruct’.
