What is train?

More definitions of "train":

• (noun): A sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding.
  Example: "Train of mourners"; "a train of thought"
  Synonyms: string

• (noun): A series of consequences wrought by an event.
  Example: "It led to a train of disasters"

• (verb): Aim or direct at; as of blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment.
  Example: "Don't train your camera on the women"
  Synonyms: aim, take, take aim, direct

• (verb): Prepare (someone) for a future role or function.
  Synonyms: prepare, groom

• (verb): Train to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it.
  Example: "Train the vine"

• (noun): Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.
  Synonyms: gearing, gears, geartrain, power train

• (noun): A procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file.
  Example: "They joined the wagon train for safety"
  Synonyms: caravan, wagon train

• (verb): Train by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control.
  Synonyms: discipline, check, condition

• (noun): Piece of cloth forming the long back section of a gown that is drawn along the floor.
  Example: "The bride's train was carried by her two young nephews"

• (verb): Travel by rail or train.
  Synonyms: rail

• (verb): Create by training and teaching.
  Synonyms: develop, prepare, educate

• (verb): Teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports.
  Synonyms: coach

• (verb): Exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition.
  Example: "She is training for the Olympics"

• (verb): Undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession.
  Synonyms: prepare

• (verb): Drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground.
  Synonyms: trail

• (verb): Train to be discriminative in taste or judgment.
  Example: "Train your tastebuds"
  Synonyms: educate, school, cultivate, civilize, civilise

Famous quotes containing the word train:

“If we train our conscience, it kisses us as it bites.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Perfect present has no existence in our consciousness. As I said years ago in Erewhon, it lives but upon the sufferance of past and future. We are like men standing on a narrow footbridge over a railway. We can watch the future hurrying like an express train towards us, and then hurrying into the past, but in the narrow strip of present we cannot see it. Strange that that which is the most essential to our consciousness should be exactly that of which we are least definitely conscious.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if we believed in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)