Trainname

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  A surname.

trainnoun詞源 1/ˈtɹeɪn/

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  Elongated or trailing portion.

  • Unfortunately, the leading bridesmaid stepped on the bride's train as they were walking down the aisle.
  • They called each other by their Christian name, were always arm in arm when they walked, pinned up each other's train for the dance, and were not to be divided in the set [...].
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  Elongated or trailing portion.

  • [E]mancipation is put into such a train that in a few years there will be no slaves Northward of Maryland.
  • A party was sent to search, and there they found all the powder ready prepared, and, moreover, a man with a lantern, one Guy Fawkes, who had undertaken to be the one to set fire to the train of gunpowder, hoping to escape before the explosion.
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  Elongated or trailing portion.

  • Let frantike Talbot triumph for a while, And like a Peacock ſweepe along his tayle, Wee’le pull his Plumes, and take away his Trayne, If Dolphin and the reſt will be but rul’d.
  • The burning evening sun lighted with mellow gold the coats of the fierce little tiger-kittens — orange silk with stripes of black velvet — the broken amethysts and ruined emeralds of the poor bird's train cruelly scattered over the trampled grass
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  obsoleteElongated or trailing portion.

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  Elongated or trailing portion.

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  astronomynatural-sciencesElongated or trailing portion.

  • Finally, all men saw that astronomical knowledge lied not, and they awaited the comet. Its approach was not, at first, seemingly rapid; nor was its appearance of very unusual character. It was of a dull red, and had little perceptible train.
  • It sometimes happens that the train is directed towards the sun, or makes a certain angle with the line joining the head and the sun; it was then called by the ancient astronomers the beard of the comet.
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  archaicElongated or trailing portion.

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  obsoletehobbieshuntinglifestyleElongated or trailing portion.

trainverb詞源 1/ˈtɹeɪn/

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  To practice an ability.

  • She trained seven hours a day to prepare for the Olympics.
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  To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).

  • You can't train a pig to write poetry.
  • The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
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  To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).

  • At least 10 lawsuits have been filed this year against A.I. companies, accusing them of training their systems on artists’ creative work without consent.
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  To improve one's fitness.

  • I trained with weights all winter.
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  To proceed in sequence.

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  To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.

  • The assassin had trained his gun on the minister.
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  agriculturebusinesshorticultureTo encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.

  • The vine had been trained over the pergola.
  • He trains the young branches to the right hand or to the left.
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  To transport (something) by train.

  • Colson was to truck the 'plane to Alice Springs, where it would be trained to Adelaide for repairs.

trainnoun詞源 2

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  obsoleteTreachery; deceit.

  • In the meane time, through that false Ladies traine / He was surprisd, and buried under beare, / Ne ever to his worke returnd againe [...].
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  obsoleteA trick or stratagem.

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  obsoleteA trap for animals, a snare; (figuratively) a trap in general.

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  obsoleteA lure; a decoy.

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  obsoletefalconryhobbieshuntingA live bird, handicapped or disabled in some way, provided for a young hawk to kill as training or enticement.

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  obsoleteA clue or trace.

trainverb詞源 2

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  obsoleteTo draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.

  • If but a dozen French / Were there in arms, they would be as a call / To train ten thousand English to their side.
  • O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note.
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  obsoleteTo be on intimate terms with.

trainnoun詞源 3

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  obsoletetrain oil, whale oil