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 →

2) To train means to practise to get better at something, like a sport. tree →

3) To train a person or animal is to teach them a skill: train a dog to sit. tree →

4) A train of thought is a line of ideas. tree →

5) The train of a long dress is the part that trails on the floor. tree →

6) A train can also be the long trailing tail of an animal or bird. tree →

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 →
• The train travels 60 miles an hour. tree →
• 25 people got off the train. tree →
• She trains for 2 hours every day. tree →
• We caught the early train to the city. tree →
• The puppy is being trained to sit and stay. tree →
• The football team trains on Tuesday evenings. tree →
• Mind the gap between the train and the platform. tree →
• What a long train he has! tree →

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.
• Footballers and other stars are trained to say safe, boring things, because one wrong word can become a headline.
• Ratings are decided by trained examiners who follow published rules, not by the film makers, and not by guessing.
• People designed AI, collected its text, built its computers and trained it, so people are responsible for it.
• Many chatbots are trained to be helpful and pleasant, and sometimes that tips over into agreeing, praising and inventing.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «train» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.