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Also see: set
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).
- 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.
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.
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’.

