trainnoun
uk/treɪn/us/treɪn/train noun (VEHICLE)
A1 [ C ] a railway engine connected to carriages for carrying people or to wheeled containers for carrying goods:
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Railways: trains & parts of trains
- air brake
- baggage car
- bogie
- boiler
- bullet train
- caboose
- carriage
- choo-choo
- coach
- couchette
- diesel
- emergency cord
- freight car
- intercity
- luggage van
- maglev train
- rolling stock
- shunt
- sleeping car
- wagon-lit
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train noun (SERIES)
C2 a series of connected thoughts or events:
[ C ] a line of animals, people, or things moving along together:
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Order and sequence - general words
- alphabetize
- back end
- back end
- be a chapter of accidents idiom
- catalogue
- litany
- merry-go-round
- next
- nth
- penultimate
- run
- running
- second 1
- sequential
- series
- succession
- thirdly
- timeline
- vice versa
- wave
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train noun (PART OF DRESS)
[ C ] the part of a long dress that spreads out onto the floor behind the person wearing it:
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Decorations for clothes
- epaulette
- eyelet
- flash
- flounce
- frill
- fringe
- frou-frou
- piping
- sequin
- shoulder pad
- spangle
- stud
- studded
- tassel
- trim
- trimming
Idiom(s)
trainverb
uk/treɪn/us/treɪn/train verb (PREPARE)
B1 [ I or T ] to prepare someone or yourself for a job, activity, or sport, by learning skills and/or by mental or physical exercise:
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- We're trying to train our dog to sit.
- Doctors are trained to recognize the symptoms of different diseases.
- I had to take an aptitude test before I began training as a nurse.
- How I wish I could train the children to leave their dirty shoes at the door!
- We believe that he has been training an army and storing up arms.
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Teaching in general
- CAL
- CLIL
- clue
- clue sb in
- drum
- engage
- homeschool
- hothousing
- instruction
- instructional
- popularize
- special educational needs
- teach
- teach sb a lesson idiom
- that'll teach sb idiom
- tutelage
- upskill
- upskilling
- wean
- wean sb on sth
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train verb (AIM)
[ T usually + adv/prep ] formal to aim or point a gun, camera, light, etc. at someone or something:
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Aiming and aim
- aim
- direct
- home
- home in on sth/sb
- level
- level sth at sb
- target
- zero
- zero in on sth/sb
train verb (DIRECT GROWTH)
[ T ] to direct the growth of a plant in a particular direction by cutting it and tying it:
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Gardening - general words
- arborist
- bed
- bed sth out
- bonsai
- deadhead
- grass
- hedgerow
- hoe
- homegrown
- horticulture
- hydroponics
- landscape gardening
- nurse
- nursery
- seed
- sow 1
- topiary
- tree surgeon
- trellis
- uproot
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