train /ˈtren/
 火車,列車,行列,長隊,後果,順序(vt.)訓練,教養,對準(vi.)鍛煉


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 連列


 train
 列車 列


 Train v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trained p. pr. & vb. n. Training.]
 1. To draw along; to trail; to drag.
 In hollow cube
 Training his devilish enginery.   --Milton.
 2. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure. [Obs.]
 If but a dozen French
 Were there in arms, they would be as a call
 To train ten thousand English to their side.   --Shak.
    O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note.   --Shak.
 This feast, I'll gage my life,
 Is but a plot to train you to your ruin.   --Ford.
 3. 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.
    Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation.   --Milton.
    The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train.   --Dryden.
 4. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
 5. Hort. 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.
    He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left.   --Jeffrey.
 6. Mining To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head.
 To train a gun Mil. & Naut., to point it at some object either forward or else abaft the beam, that is, not directly on the side. --Totten.
 To train, or To train up, to educate; to teach; to form by instruction or practice; to bring up.
    Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.   --Prov. xxii. 6.
    The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory.   --Tillotson.


 Train, v. i.
 1. To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company.
 2. To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.


 Train, n.
 1. That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. [Obs.] “Now to my charms, and to my wily trains.”
 2. Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare.
    With cunning trains him to entrap un wares.   --Spenser.
 3. That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear. Specifically : --
 (a) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.
 (b) Mil. The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.
 (c) The tail of a bird. “The train steers their flights, and turns their bodies, like the rudder of ship.”
 4. A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite.
    The king's daughter with a lovely train.   --Addison.
    My train are men of choice and rarest parts.   --Shak.
 5. A consecution or succession of connected things; a series. “A train of happy sentiments.”
    The train of ills our love would draw behind it.   --Addison.
 Rivers now
 Stream and perpetual draw their humid train.   --Milton.
    Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order.   --Locke.
 6. Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement.
    If things were once in this train, . . . our duty would take root in our nature.   --Swift.
 7. The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
 8. A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.
 9. A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad; -- called also railroad train.
 10. A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.
 11. Rolling Mill A roll train; as, a 12-inch train.
 12.  Mil. The aggregation of men, animals, and vehicles which accompany an army or one of its subdivisions, and  transport its baggage, ammunition, supplies, and reserve materials of all kinds.
 Roll train, or  Train of rolls Rolling Mill, a set of plain or grooved rolls for rolling metal into various forms by a series of consecutive operations.
 Train mile Railroads, a unit employed in estimating running expenses, etc., being one of the total number of miles run by all the trains of a road, or system of roads, as within a given time, or for a given expenditure; -- called also mile run.
 Train of artillery, any number of cannon, mortars, etc., with the attendants and carriages which follow them into the field. --Campbell (Dict. Mil. Sci.).
 Train of mechanism, a series of moving pieces, as wheels and pinions, each of which is follower to that which drives it, and driver to that which follows it.
 Train road, a slight railway for small cars, -- used for construction, or in mining.
 Train tackle Naut., a tackle for running guns in and out.
 Syn: -- Cars.
 Usage: -- Train, Cars. At one time “train” meaning railroad train was also referred to in the U. S. by the phrase “the cars”.  In the 1913 dictionary the usage was described thus: “Train is the word universally used in England with reference to railroad traveling; as, I came in the morning train. In the United States, the phrase the cars has been extensively introduced in the room of train; as, the cars are late; I came in the cars. The English expression is obviously more appropriate, and is prevailing more and more among Americans, to the exclusion of the cars.”

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 train
      n 1: public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled
           together and drawn by a locomotive; "express trains
           don't stop at Princeton Junction" [syn: railroad train]
      2: a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in
         which each successive member is related to the preceding;
         "a string of islands"; "train of mourners"; "a train of
         thought" [syn: string]
      3: a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling
         together in single file; "we were part of a caravan of
         almost a thousand camels"; "they joined the wagon train
         for safety" [syn: caravan, wagon train]
      4: a series of consequences wrought by an event; "it led to a
         train of disasters"
      5: piece of cloth forming the long back section of a gown that
         is drawn along the floor; "the bride's train was carried
         by her two young nephews"
      6: 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 geartrain" [syn: gearing,
          gears, geartrain, power train]
      v 1: create by training and teaching; "The old master is training
           world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the
           future" [syn: develop, prepare, educate]
      2: undergo training or instruction in preparation for a
         particular role, function, or profession; "She is training
         to be a teacher"; "He trained as a legal aid" [syn: prepare]
      3: train by instruction and practice; especially to teach
         self-control; "Parents must discipline their children";
         "Is this dog trained?" [syn: discipline, check, condition]
      4: prepare (someone) for a future role or function; "He is
         grooming his son to become his successor"; "The prince was
         prepared to become King one day"; "They trained him to be
         a warrior" [syn: prepare, groom]
      5: train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate
         your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well
         schooled in poetry" [syn: educate, school, cultivate,
          civilize, civilise]
      6: aim or direct at; as of blows, weapons, or objects such as
         photographic equipment; "Please don't aim at your little
         brother!"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't
         train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's
         opponent" [syn: aim, take, take aim, direct]
      7: teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach
         (to), as in sports; "He is training our Olympic team";
         "She is coaching the crew" [syn: coach]
      8: exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition;
         "She is training for the Olympics"
      9: train to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it;
         "train the vine"
      10: travel by rail or train; "They railed from Rome to Venice";
          "She trained to Hamburg" [syn: rail]
      11: drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground;
          "The toddler was trailing his pants"; "She trained her
          long scarf behind her" [syn: trail]