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      train
      noun
      Elongated or trailing portion.
      The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
      A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.
      The tail of a bird.
      (astronomy) A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere or accompanying a comet as it nears the sun; tail.
      Connected sequence of people or things.
      A group of people following an important figure such as a king or noble; a retinue, a group of retainers.
      A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.
      (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.
      A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something.
      A set of things, events, or circumstances that follow after or as a consequence; aftermath, wake.
      A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.
      A series of electrical pulses.
      A series of specified vehicles (originally tramcars in a mine as usual, later especially railway carriages) coupled together.
      A mechanical (originally steam-powered, now typically diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track or path; a line of connected wagons considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail or road travel.
      (informal) A service on a railway line.
      A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
      (computing) A software release schedule.
      (sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape.
      A surname.
      (poetic) The elongated body or form of something narrow and winding, such as the course of a river or the body of a snake.
      (figuratively, poetic) A group or class of people.
      (obsolete) The tail of an animal in general.
      (now rare) An animal's trail or track.
      (obsolete, hunting) Something dragged or laid along the ground to form a trail of scent or food along which to lure an animal.
      (obsolete) Gait or manner of running of a horse.
      (obsolete) State of progress, status, situation (in phrases introduced by in a + adjective); also proper order or situation (introduced by in or in a alone).
      (uncountable, obsolete) Treachery; deceit.
      (countable, obsolete) A trick or stratagem.
      (countable, obsolete) A trap for animals, a snare; (figuratively) a trap in general.
      (countable, obsolete) A lure; a decoy.
      (countable, obsolete, falconry) A live bird, handicapped or disabled in some way, provided for a young hawk to kill as training or enticement.
      (countable, obsolete) A clue or trace.
      (obsolete) train oil, whale oil
      verb
      (intransitive) To practice an ability.
      (transitive) To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
      (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
      (intransitive) To proceed in sequence.
      (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
      (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
      (transitive, machine learning) To feed data into an algorithm, usually based on a neural network, to create a machine learning model that can perform some task.
      (transitive) To transport (something) by train.
      (transitive, mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
      (transitive, video games) To create a trainer (cheat patch) for; to apply cheats to (a game).
      (transitive, obsolete) To draw (something) along; to trail, to drag (something).
      (intransitive, obsolete, of clothing) To trail down or along the ground.
      (transitive, obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
      (obsolete, colloquial) To be on intimate terms with.
      Roots
      trahotrain- · Latin · draw, pull
      Synonyms for train
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