Word Meanings - DETRAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train. London Graphic.

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• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• LONDONISM
  A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• TRAINING
  The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
• TRAINABLE
  Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
• LONDONIZE
  To impart to a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.
• GRAPHICNESS; GRAPHICALNESS
  The quality or state of being graphic.
• LONDON
  The capital city of England. London paste , a paste made of caustic soda and unslacked lime; -- used as a caustic to destroy tumors and other morbid enlargements. -- London pride. A garden name for Saxifraga umbrosa, a hardy perennial
• GRAPHIC; GRAPHICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing. 2. Of or pertaining to the art of writing. 3. Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines. The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical, or composed of
• LONDONER
  A native or inhabitant of London. Shak.
• TRAINER
  1. One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength. 2. A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. Bartlett.
• TRAIN DISPATCHER
  An official who gives the orders on a railroad as to the running of trains and their right of way.
• GRAPHICALLY
  In a graphic manner; vividly.
• TRAINBEARER
  One who holds up a train, as of a robe.
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• TRAIN
  To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees. He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left. Jeffrey. (more info) 1. To draw along;
• CAUSER
  One who or that which causes.
• TRAINY
  Belonging to train oil. Gay.
• ALIGHT
  Goth. us-, G. er-, orig. meaning out) + lihtan, to alight, orig. to render light, to remove a burden from, fr. liht, leoht, light. See 1. To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount. 2. To descend
• CAUSELESS
  1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.
• PETROGRAPHIC; PETROGRAPHICAL
  Pertaining to petrography.
• STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
  Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
• PENTAGRAPHIC; PENTAGRAPHICAL
  Pantographic. See Pantograph.
• PHOTOGRAPHIC; PHOTOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• PHYTOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to phytography.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• EPIGRAPHIC; EPIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.
• HETEROGRAPHIC
  Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; -- said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• HYDROGRAPHIC; HYDROGRAPHICAL
  Of or relating to hydrography.
• PHONOGRAPHICALLY
  In a phonographic manner; by means of phonograph.
• GLOSSOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossography.
• UPTRAIN
  To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.
• CORRIDOR TRAIN
  A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.