train / trān
noun
a group of connected railroad cars pulled by a locomotive If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station. Bernard Malamud, 1914- 1986 a long line of moving objects Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn. John Milton, 1608 - 1674 the part of a gown that trails behind “Hmph," she said. "I'd like to see you learn how to manage sitting and standing up straight in stays and petticoats and a dress with a foot's worth of train!" from “Clockwork Prince” by Cassandra Clare, 1973 - the staff and equipment providing supplies and staffing for a combat unit In contrast to almost every major army in history, the Mongols traveled lightly, without a supply train. From “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World” by Jack Weatherford a retinue; a group of followers or attendants Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train. Charles Wesley, 1707 - 1788 an orderly sequence or series A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible. Asger Jorn, 1914 - 1973 linked mechanical components Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1881 - 1955 a line of gunpower acting as a fuse for an explosion French John (a faithful servant), with his usual activity and resolution, offers to spike the cannon at the gate, and lay a train of powder, which would blow up the British, should they enter the house. From a letter by First Lady Dolley Madison, 1768 – 1849, to her sister, Anna, written the day before Washington, D.C. was burned by British forces during the War of 1812 verb to teach To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate. Robert Owen, 1771 - 1858 to prepare physically If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat. Herschel Walker, 1962 - to guide to achieve a desired outcome or goal It [the habit of saving] fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind. Thornton T. Munger, 1883 – 1975 to cause something such as a plant or hair to take a desired shape Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807 - 1892 to aim at or focus on an object When Galileo first trained his optic telescope on the heavens and opened up modern optical astronomy, that was the first of the electromagnetic windows out of the universe: light. Kip Thorne, 1940 - to drag something behind With his scarf training behind him, Casey walked through this wall casually. From “Harry Potter AU / Platform 9 ¾” August 31, 2015, http://www.thehobbitroleplay.com/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;sa=topics;u=401 to travel by railroad car After returning the rental car in Zagreb, we trained to Vienna and flew home. https://photos.trips45.com/Balkans2014/album/index.html