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# train

noun, verb (train, trains, trained, training)

«train» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A train is a line of railway carriages or wagons pulled by an engine along tracks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/#m1)
2. To train means to practise to get better at something, like a sport. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/#m2)
3. To train a person or animal is to teach them a skill: train a dog to sit. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/#m3)
4. A train of thought is a line of ideas. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/#m4)
5. The train of a long dress is the part that trails on the floor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/#m5)
6. A train can also be the long trailing tail of an animal or bird. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/#m6)

### In the lessons

Maths: a vehicle with cars, passengers, speed and times; seats per car and speed are rates (multiply); people getting on add, off take away; timetables; «trains for 2 hours a day» is time per day. Sport: training sessions, a trainer. Everyday: catch the train, miss the train, train station. Safety: stand behind the line on the platform.

### Examples

- A train has 8 cars with 40 seats each. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/#x1)
- The train travels 60 miles an hour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/#x2)
- 25 people got off the train. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/#x3)
- She trains for 2 hours every day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/#x4)
- We caught the early train to the city. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/#x5)
- The puppy is being trained to sit and stay. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/#x6)
- The football team trains on Tuesday evenings. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/#x7)
- Mind the gap between the train and the platform. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/#x8)
- What a long train he has! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/#x9)

### Note

Countable noun; regular verb. Seats per car and speed are rates (multiply). People getting on add, off take away. «Trains for 2 hours a day» is time per day. Trap: a «trainer» is a coach, or (UK) a sports shoe.

## In Jewish tradition

Here it means trained, meaning men skilled and taught for fighting. The prophets also use it for teaching, as God training the arms of Israel, and for the long trailing part of a robe.

**Interpretation.** Hosea is read as showing God's care for his people, who still turned against him. The stripped train in Isaiah is read as the shame of Babylon, made a servant.

### Examples

- And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan. (Torah GEN.14.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/train/#x1)
- Though I have trained and strengthened their arms, yet do they devise evil against Me. (Prophets HOS.7.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/train/#x2)
- Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. (Prophets ISA.47.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/train/#x3)
- What wilt thou say, when He shall set the friends over thee as head, whom thou thyself hast trained against thee? (Prophets JER.13.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/train/#x4)

### Note

Countable noun; regular verb. Seats per car and speed are rates (multiply). People getting on add, off take away. «Trains for 2 hours a day» is time per day. Trap: a «trainer» is a coach, or (UK) a sports shoe.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «train» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«train» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/train.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «train» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/train/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«train» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/train.html) on Mova free.

