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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 (children'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 or 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 or 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 or motion or torque is changed
   - gearing, gear, geartrain, power train

Derived forms: trained, trains, training

See also: trainee, trainer, training

Type of: aftermath, check, consequence, contain, control, curb, develop, down, drag, educate, exercise, fine-tune, hold, hold in, instruct, learn, make grow, 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

Encyclopedia: Train Train, Bavaria