Word: train Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.? Latin trahere Vulgar Latin *tragīnāre Old French traïnerder. Old French trainder. Middle English trayne English train From Middle English trayne (“train”), from Old French train (“a delay, a drawing out”), from traïner (“to pull out, to draw”), from Vulgar Latin *traginō, from *tragō, from Latin trahō (“to pull, to draw”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to pull, draw, drag”). The verb was derived from the noun in Middle English. For the meaning to teach compare typologically Russian ната́скивать (natáskivatʹ) (akin to тащи́ть (taščítʹ)). Pronunciation: /ˈtɹeɪn/, [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷeɪ̯n], [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷeɪ̯n], /ˈtɹæɪ̯n/, [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷæ̝ɪ̯n] 1. To practice an ability. Labels: intransitive Example: She trained seven hours a day to prepare for the Olympics. 2. To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone). Labels: transitive Example: You can't train a pig to write poetry. Example: The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners. 3. To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone). Labels: transitive Example: At least 10 lawsuits have been filed this year against A.I. companies, accusing them of training their systems on artists’ creative work without consent. 4. To improve one's fitness. Labels: intransitive Example: I trained with weights all winter. 5. To proceed in sequence. Labels: intransitive 6. To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction. Labels: transitive Example: The assassin had trained his gun on the minister. 7. To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending. Labels: transitive Example: The vine had been trained over the pergola. Example: He trains the young branches to the right hand or to the left. 8. To transport (something) by train. Labels: transitive Example: Colson was to truck the 'plane to Alice Springs, where it would be trained to Adelaide for repairs. 9. To travel by train. Labels: intransitive Example: As I trained westward across Europe, I read newspaper articles from the Sixties describing placards on the pub’s walls that explained to patrons how to order lager, brandy, and gin in Esperanto. 10. To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head. Labels: transitive 11. To create a trainer (cheat patch) for; to apply cheats to (a game). Labels: transitive Example: I got a twix on the 128 version being fixed and trained by Mad Max at M2K BBS 208-587-7636 in Mountain Home Idaho. He fixes many games and puts them on his board. One of my sources for games and utils. Example: In the mid-1980s, demoparties were also copyparties, where the first so called hot releases of cracked and trained games changed hands. However, illegal software copying later disappeared […] 12. To draw (something) along; to trail, to drag (something). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: [I]t pleaſed the grekes at that tyme to ſe yͤ body of Hector ſo trayned by Achilles⸝ bycauſe he was wont to be ſo redoubtab[l]e to them⸝ […] Example: In hollow cube / Training his devilish enginery. 13. To trail down or along the ground. Labels: intransitive, obsolete