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# train

«train» in Mova's school dictionary: **a line of railway carriages or wagons pulled by an engine…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) A train is a line of railway carriages or wagons pulled by an engine along tracks. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/#m3)

4) A train of thought is a line of ideas. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/#m6)

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

- [A midwife is a nurse trained to care for women and babies during pregnancy, birth and the first days after.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/16/)
- [Footballers and other stars are trained to say safe, boring things, because one wrong word can become a headline.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/22/)
- [Ratings are decided by trained examiners who follow published rules, not by the film makers, and not by guessing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/57-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist/17/)
- [People designed AI, collected its text, built its computers and trained it, so people are responsible for it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/17/)
- [Many chatbots are trained to be helpful and pleasant, and sometimes that tips over into agreeing, praising and inventing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «train» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/train/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.