train set

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
train/treɪn/
verb
  • 1 teach (a person or animal) a skill or type of behaviour through regular practice and instruction.

    ■ be taught in such a way.

  • 2 make or become physically fit through a course of exercise and diet.
  • 3 (train something on) point or aim something at.
  • 4 cause (a plant) to grow in a particular direction or into a required shape.
  • 5 dated go by train.
  • 6 archaic entice (someone).
noun
  • 1 a series of railway carriages or wagons moved as a unit by a locomotive or by integral motors.
  • 2 a number of vehicles or pack animals moving in a line.

    ■ a retinue of attendants accompanying an important person.

  • 3 a series of connected events or thoughts.
  • 4 a long piece of trailing material attached to the back of a formal dress or robe.
  • 5 a series of gears or other connected parts in machinery.
  • 6 a trail of gunpowder for firing an explosive charge.
– phrases
in train in progress.
in the train of following behind.
in (or out of) training undergoing (or no longer undergoing) physical training for a sporting event.

■ physically fit (or unfit) as a result of this.

– derivatives
trainability noun,
trainable adjective,
training noun,
trainload noun.
– origin ME (as a noun in the sense ‘delay’): from OFr. train (masc.), traine (fem.), from trahiner (v.), from L. trahere ‘pull, draw’.

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