Train

/ˈtɹeɪn/ · noun

Meaning

Elongated or trailing portion..

Definitions by Sense

1. Elongated or trailing portion.
2. Connected sequence of people or things.
3. (intransitive) To practice an ability.
4. (transitive) To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
5. (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
6. (intransitive) To proceed in sequence.
7. (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
8. (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.

Example Sentences

She trained seven hours a day to prepare for the Olympics.

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.

I trained with weights all winter.

The assassin had trained his gun on the minister.

The vine had been trained over the pergola.

He trains the young branches to the right hand or to the left.

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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Word Forms

• trains
• training
• trained

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