Word Meanings - TRAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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;
Additional info about word: 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; to trail; to drag. In hollow cube Training his devilish enginery. Milton. 2. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure. If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call To train ten thousand English to their side. Shak. O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note. Shak. This feast, I'll gage my life, Is but a plot to train you to your ruin. Ford. 3. To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms. Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation. Milton. The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train. Dryden. 4. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRAIN)
- Accustom
- Habituate
- familiarize
- form
- inure
- train
- reconcile
- Dreed Generate
- procreate
- engender
- propagate
- produce
- beget
- hatch
- nourish
- instruct
- evolve
- cause
- Drill
- Teach
- exercise
- ordinate
- discipline
- Educate
- Instruct
- nurture
- teach
- develop
- ground
- school
- initiate
- Exercise Practise
- cultivate
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TRAIN)
Related words: (words related to TRAIN)
- CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - TEACHER
1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination. - EVOLVENT
The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute. - ACCUSTOMARILY
Customarily. - DREINTE; DREINT
p. p. of Drench to drown. Chaucer. - HATCHURE
See HACHURE - TEACHABLENESS
Willingness to be taught. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - DREGGISH
Foul with lees; feculent. Harvey. - PROCREATE
To generate and produce; to beget; to engender. - SCHOOL-TEACHER
One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n. - DREAMINESS
The state of being dreamy. - DREAR
Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton. - RELAXANT
A medicine that relaxes; a laxative. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - ACCUSTOMEDNESS
Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce. - INSTRUCTRESS
A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson. - DREADNOUGHT
1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by - CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté. - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - UNDRESS
To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - UNDREAMED; UNDREAMT
Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak. - DEMANDRESS
A woman who demands. - STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - ADRENALINE; ADRENALIN
A crystalline substance, C9H13O3N, obtained from suprarenal extract, of which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic. - PREINSTRUCT
To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More. - CADRE
The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be