English Dictionary

train

/tɹeɪn/

noun

The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground. / A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.

I take the train to work every day.

意味（1）

The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.

Unfortunately, the leading bridesmaid stepped on the bride's train as they were walking down the aisle.

意味（2）

A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.

[E]mancipation is put into such a train that in a few years there will be no slaves Northward of Maryland.

意味（3）

The tail of a bird.

Let frantike Talbot triumph for a while,

And like a Peacock ſweepe along his tayle,

Wee’le pull his Plumes, and take away his Trayne,

Let frantike Talbot triumph for a while, And like a Peacock ſweepe along his tayle, Wee’le pull his Plumes, and take away his Trayne, If Dolphin and the reſt will be but rul’d.

意味（4）

(obsolete) The tail of an animal in general.

意味（5）

(poetic) The elongated body or form of something narrow and winding, such as the course of a river or the body of a snake.

意味（6）

(astronomy) A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere or accompanying a comet as it nears the sun; tail.

Finally, all men saw that astronomical knowledge lied not, and they awaited the comet. Its approach was not, at first, seemingly rapid; nor was its appearance of very unusual character. It was of a dull red, and had little perceptible train.

意味（7）

(now rare) An animal's trail or track.

意味（8）

(obsolete, hunting) Something dragged or laid along the ground to form a trail of scent or food along which to lure an animal.

意味（9）

(obsolete) Gait or manner of running of a horse.

意味（10）

A group of people following an important figure such as a king or noble; a retinue, a group of retainers.

Sir, I invite your Highness and your train / To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest /For this one night

意味（11）

A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.

Our party formed a train at the funeral parlor before departing for the burial.

意味（12）

(figuratively, poetic) A group or class of people.

Theſe are the cruel pirates of Argier,

Theſe are the cruel pirates of Argier, That damned train, the ſcum of Affrica, […]

意味（13）

(military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.

意味（14）

A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something.

A man may be absorbed in the deepest thought, and his brow will remain smooth until he encounters some obstacle in his train of reasoning, or is interrupted by some disturbance, and then a frown passes like a shadow over his brow.

意味（15）

A set of things, events, or circumstances that follow after or as a consequence; aftermath, wake.

Thus the development of reason is accompanied by no inner blight or withering. It does not bring in its train loss of faith or weakening of sympathies.

意味（16）

(obsolete) State of progress, status, situation (in phrases introduced by in a + adjective); also proper order or situation (introduced by in or in a alone).

in a fair / better / worse train

意味（17）

A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.

意味（18）

A series of electrical pulses.

意味（19）

A series of specified vehicles, originally tramcars in a mine, and later especially railway carriages, coupled together.

意味（20）

A mechanical (traditionally steam-powered, now usually diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track; a line of connected railway cars or carriages considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail travel.

The train will pull in at midday.

意味（21）

A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.

意味（22）

(computing) A software release schedule.

What steps do development engineers follow when adding new feature code? How do they support different software versions or release trains?

意味（23）

(sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape.

You want us to run a train on you?