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1. Create by training and teaching
   "The old master is training world-class violinists";
   - develop, prepare, educate
    
2. Undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession
   "She is training to be a teacher"; "He trained as a legal aid";
   - prepare
    
3. Develop (a child's or animal's) behaviour by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
   "Is this dog trained?";
   - discipline, check, condition
    
4. Educate for a future role or function
   "They trained him to be a warrior";
   - prepare, groom
    
5. Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
   "Train your tastebuds";
   - educate, school, cultivate, civilize, civilise [Brit]
    
6. Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
   "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women";
   - aim, take, take aim, direct
    
7. Teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports
   "He is training our Olympic team";
   - coach
    
8. Exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition
   "She is training for the Olympics"
    
9. Cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it
   "train the vine"
    
10. Travel by rail or train
    "She trained to Hamburg";
    - rail
     
11. Drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
    "She trained her long scarf behind her";
    - trail

1. Public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive
   "express trains don't stop at Princeton Junction";
   - railroad train [N. Amer], railway train [Brit, Cdn]
    
2. A sequentially ordered set of things, events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
   "train of mourners"; "a train of thought";
   - string
    
3. A procession (of wagons, mules or camels) travelling together in single file
   "they joined the wagon train for safety";
   - caravan, wagon train
    
4. A series of consequences wrought by an event
   "it led to a train of disasters"
    
5. Piece of cloth forming the long back section of a gown that is drawn along the floor
   "the bride's train was carried by her two young nephews"
    
6. Wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted, motion or torque is changed
   "the fool got his tie caught in the power train";
   - gearing, gear, geartrain, power train, drivetrain

Derived forms: trained, training, trains

Type of: aftermath, check, consequence, contain, control, curb, develop, down [informal], drag, educate, exercise, fine-tune, hold, hold in, instruct, learn, make grow, mod [informal], moderate, piece of cloth, piece of material, polish, position, procession, public transport, read, refine, ride, series, study, take, teach, wheelwork, work out

Part of: engine, gown

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