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Definition: Train |
TrainNoun1. Public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive; "express trains don't stop at Princeton Junction". 2. A sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding: "a string of islands"; "train of mourners"; "a train of thought". 3. A procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file; "we were part of a caravan of almost a thousand camels"; "they joined the wagon train for safety". 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; "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain". Verb1. Create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists; "we develop the leaders for the future". 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". 3. Train by instruction and practice; esp. to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained?". 4. Prepare (someone) for a future role or function; "He is grooming his son to become his successor"; "The prince was prepared to become King one day"; "They trained him to be a warrior". 5. Train to be discriminative; as of taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry". 6. Aim or direct at; as of blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment; "Please don't aim at your little brother!" "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent". 7. Teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports; "He is training our Olympic team"; "She is coaching the crew". 8. Exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition; "She is training for the Olympics". 9. Train to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it; "train the vine". 10. : travel by rail or train; "They railed from Rome to Venice"; "She trained to Hamburg". 11. : drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground; "The toddler was trailing his pants". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "train" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Train \Train\, noun. [French train, Old French tra["i]n, trahin; compare to (for some of the senses) French traine. See Train, verb]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Succession of toothed wheels which connects the driving device. Source: European Union. (references) |
Aerospace | Anything, such as luminous gas of ionized particles, left along the trajectory of a meteor after the head of the meteor has passed. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To see a train of cars moving in your dreams, you will soon have cause to make a journey. To be on a train and it appears to move smoothly along, though there is no track, denotes that you will be much worried over some affair which will eventually prove a source of profit to you. To see freight trains in your dreams, is an omen of changes which will tend to your elevation. To find yourself, in a dream, on top of a sleeping car, denotes you will make a journey with an unpleasant companion, with whom you will spend money and time that could be used in a more profitable and congenial way, and whom you will seek to avoid. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Mechanical Engineering | A gear transmission consisting of three or more members. The intermediate gears are either idlers, or part of a twin gear. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military & Defense | To undergo a course of exercise. . physical. . as, to train for an athletic contest. . . to train with the militia. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A number of empty or loaded mine cars, coupled together, for transport byrope haulage or locomotive. See also:journey. (references) |
Transportation | A formation of two or more cars combined into an operating unit. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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The Carolinian is an Amtrak train running daily between Charlotte, North Carolina and New York City. The train does not have a sleeping car. There are two trains a day, one in each direction. Each train leaves its origin station (Charlotte or New York) in the morning and arrives at its final destination in the evening. Along the way, stops are made at Raleigh, North Carolina and Richmond, Virginia, among other cities and towns.On-Board services:
The Piedmont runs daily between Raleigh, NC and Charlotte, NC. There is one tain a day leaving Raleigh at 7:15am, arriving in Charlotte by 10:40am. It begins the return journey from Charlotte at 5:30pm and returns to Raleigh at 8:55pm.
- Coach
- Business Class
- Dinette Car
The Carolinian and Piedmont are financed and operated jointly between Amtrak and the North Carolina Department of Transportation.
On-Board services:
- Coach
External Links
- NCDOT Rail Division
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Carolinian and Piedmont."
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Rail tracksA railroad or railway is a guided means of land transport, designed to be used by trains, both passengers and freight are transported on railways. It consists of two parallel rails, usually made of steel, and wooden or concrete sleepers or ties that hold the rails exactly at the proper distance from each other. See Rail tracks
General
Rail transport is one of the most energy efficient means of mechanised land transport known. The rails provide very smooth and hard surfaces on which the wheels of the train may roll with a minimum of friction. This is more comfortable and saves energy. Trains also have a small frontal area in relation to the load they are carrying, which cuts down on air resistance and thus energy usage. In all, under the right circumstances, a train needs 50-70% less energy to transport a given tonnage of freight (or given number of passengers), than by road. Furthermore, together with the sleepers the rails distribute the weight of the train evenly, allowing significantly greater loads per axle/wheel than in road transport.
Rail transport is also one of the safest modes of transport, and also makes a highly efficient use of space: a double tracked rail line can carry more passengers or freight in a given amount of time, than a four-laned road.
Railways can be built with different distances between the two rails, the distance between the two rails is known as the rail gauge.
Railways use signaling (usually colour lights) to prevent trains from colliding.
Railroads may or may not be electrified. If they are not, they can only be used by non-electric trains, mainly diesel trains. In many parts of the world large parts of the railroad network have been electrified. Electric trains do not have to carry their own fuel. They are cleaner and less noisy.
To be electrified, a means of supplying electricity to the train is needed, this may be done by overhead wires, or by a third rail system. The former is the most common method.
High speed rail, with speeds up to 350 kilometers per hour, are achieved by a specially built railroad and special trains.
For short, steep stretches funiculars or cable car railways and cog railways provide railway functionality.
In a broader sense, the term railroad includes monorail, rubber-tired metro and maglev, since the cars also run in a guided path.
Major cities often have metro and/or light rail/tram systems. For a tram on the road the terms streetcar track or tram track are used, rather than railroad or railway. A tram with its own right-of-way it is called a tramway.
Depending on how much traffic they carry, railways can be built with a varying number of tracks. Rail lines that carry little traffic are often built with a single track which is used by trains traveling in both directions; on rail lines like these, "passing loops" or "passing sidings", which consist of short stretches of double track, are provided at certain points along the line to allow trains to pass each other, and travel in different directions. Alternatively, there may be larger sections of the line that are double track - effective timetabling can allow train travel up and down the partially double track line equivalent to travel on fully double tracks. Conversely, double tram track is sometimes intertwined at narrow passages (see Tram). Single-track lines are cheaper to build, but can only handle a limited amount of traffic.
On busier lines, two or more tracks are provided, one or more for each direction of travel. On very busy lines as many as eight tracks (four tracks in each direction) are used to handle large amounts of traffic.
With the advent of containerized freight in the 1960s, rail and ship transportation have become an integrated network that move bulk goods very efficiently with a very low labor cost. An example is that goods from east Asia that are bound for Europe will often be shipped across the Pacific and transferred to trains to cross North America and be transferred back to a ship for the Atlantic crossing.
High altitude railways are in Peru and Tibet (under construction).
History in brief
Early horse drawn wagonways operated in Europe, from around 1550 usually operating with crude wooden tracks.
The first steam locomotive to operate on tracks, built by Richard Trevithick was operated in 1804 In Wales, although it was not fianancially successful.
The first successful steam locomotives were built by George Stephenson, culminating in his famous Rocket locomotive.
The first successful steam operated railway was the Stockton and Darlington Railway in northern England in the 1820s, which was soon followed by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway proved the viabillity of rail transport.
Railways soon spread throughout England and through the world, and became the dominant means of land transport for nearly a century, until the invention of aircraft and automobiles, which prompted a gradual decline in railways.
Diesel and electric trains and locomotives replaced steam, in many countries, in the decades after World War II.
Many countries since the 1960s have adopted High-speed railways.
for more detail see History of rail transport.
Terminology
To distinguish two directions on a given line sometimes one is called the up train and the other down train, which may for example mean from and toward the center or the big city.
In Britain and other commonwealth countries the term railway is used in preference to railroad, while in the United States the reverse is true. However, railroad has been used historically in Britain and a number of American companies have railway in their names instead of railroad (the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway being the most pre-eminent modern example).
In Britain the term railway is often used to refer to the complete organisation of tracks, trains, stations, signaling, timetables and the organising companies which collectively make up a coordinated railway system, while permanent way or p/way refers to the tracks alone. See also British railway system.
- American English - railroad
- Commonwealth English - railway
- Romanian - ''cale feratã' (iron way)
- Danish - jernbane (iron way)
- Dutch - spoorweg (track road)
- Finnish - rautatie (iron road)
- French - chemin de fer (way of iron)
- German - die Eisenbahn (iron road)
- Greek - Σιδηρόδρομος - Sidirodromos (iron road)
- Italian - ferrovia (iron way)
- Japanese - tetsudou (iron road)
- Korean - cheoldo (iron road)
- Portuguese - caminho de ferro (way of iron)
- Spanish - ferrocarril (iron road)
- Swedish - järnväg (iron way)
- Russian - zheleznaya doroga (железная дорога) (iron road)
Statistics
Of the 236 countries and dependencies, 143 have rail transport (including several with very little), of which ca. 90 with passenger services.
see also Rail usage statistics by country.
See also
Underground railway, Rail gauge, History of rail transport, List of railway companies, Locomotive, Public transport, Private transport, Private railroad, Railroad switch, Famous trains, Railway Mail Service, Economy of Earth (Transportation section), Driving, List of countries by rail transport network size, First Transcontinental Railroad (North America).
External links
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- http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2121.html - rail transport by country
- http://www.bahn.de/pv/uebersicht/die_bahn_international_guests.shtml - travel planner of German Railways (covers Europe, as well as at least each branch of the Trans-Siberian railway)
- http://www.vagabondo.net/Indexeng.htm?/Eng/Thenet/Travel/rail.htm - links to railway companies and timetables
- http://www.routesinternational.com/rail.htm - links
- http://www.railpassengers.org.uk/News/OtherPublications/Council/Railfuture_NRIS - National Railcard International Survey - Survey of national rail discount cards in various European countries
- Track maps
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rail transport."
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An electric multiple unit pulling into Tile Hill station; Coventry, England UK
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A train is a set of coupled land-vehicles (or sometimes just one) with flanged wheels which run on a railway.
Types of trains
A train can consist of a combination of a locomotive and attached carriages (also known as coaches or cars) or wagons, or a self-propelled multiple unit (or occasionally a single powered coach, called a railcar). Trains can also be hauled by horses, pulled by a cable, or run downhill by gravity.
Special kinds of trains running on corresponding special 'railways' are atmospheric railways, monorails, high speed railways, maglev, rubber-tired underground, funicular and cog railways.
A passenger train may consist of one or several locomotives, and one or more coaches.
Alternatively, a train may consist entirely of passenger carrying coaches, some or all of which are powered as a ""multiple unit".Freight trains comprise wagons or trucks rather than carriages, though some parcel and mail trains (especially Travelling Post Offices) are outwardly more like passenger trains.
A train hauled by two locomotives is said to be "double headed".
Mixed trains, hauling both passengers and freight, have become rare in many countries.
Special trains are also used for track maintenance.
A locomotive travelling on its own (a "light engine") is not properly called a train, though the plural "trains" can include such locotmotives, in, say, rules or timetables.
Traction
The first trains were rope-hauled or pulled by horses, but from the early 19th century, almost all were powered by steam engines. From the 1920s onwards they began to be replaced by diesel (and some petrol) and electric-hauled trains. Most countries had replaced steam trains for day-to-day use, by the 1970s. A few countries, most notably China and India where coal is in cheap and plentiful supply, still use steam trains, but this is being gradually phased out. Historical steam trains still run in many other countries, for eth leisure and enthusiast market.
A French Steam Train of the early 20th century
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Modern locomotives and powered coaches may have a diesel engine and/or electric motors. On the most common form of diesel train, the diesel engine drives a generator which provides power for electric motors which turn the wheels (diesel-electric), or in some cases the power from the diesel engine is transferred to the wheels by hydraulic means (diesel-hydraulic). Mechanical transmission, like that in an automobile, is used on a few trains, and shunting engines (switchers). However diesel powered trains are expensive to run. Where a railway line has sufficient traffic to justify the expense, it may be electrified, to allow the running of electric powered trains, which are cheap to run, and have higher performance than diesel trains.
For straight electric trains the power to run the electric motors is generated at a power station and supplied to the train by some form of distribution system. There are two common means of doing this, current may be supplied to the train by overhead wires, or by a third rail system. Funiculars do not have an engine within the vehicle, but are pulled on a cable by a motor in the station.
Passenger Trains
Passenger trains travel between stations; the distance between stations may vary from under 1 km to much more.
Long-distance trains, sometimes crossing several countries, may have a dining or restaurant car; they may also have sleeping cars, but not in the case of high- speed rail, these arrive at their destination before the night falls and are in competition with airplanes in speed. Very long distance trains such as those on the Trans-Siberian railway are usually not high- speed.
Very fast trains sometmes tilt.
For trains connecting cities, we can distinguish inter-city trains, which do not halt at small stations, and trains that serve all stations, usually known as local trains or "stoppers" (and sometimes an intermediate kind, see also limited-stop).
For shorter distances many cities have networks of commuter trains, serving the city and its suburbs. Some carriages may be laid out to have more standing room than seats or to facilitate the carrying of prams, cycles or wheelchairs. Some countries have some double-decked passenger trains for use in conurbations. Double deck high speed and sleeper trains are becoming more common in Europe.
Passenger trains usually have emergency brake handles (or a "communication cord") that the public can operate. Abuse is punished by a fine.
Large cities often have a metro system, also called underground, subway or tube. The trains are electrically powered, usually by third rail, and their railroads are separate from other traffic, without level crossings. Usually they run in tunnels in the center and sometimes on elevated structures in the outer parts of the city. They can accelerate and decelerate faster than heavier, long-distance trains.
A light one- or two-car rail vehicle running through the streets is not called a train but a tram or streetcar, but the distinction is not strict.
The term light rail is sometimes used for a modern tram, but it may also mean an intermediate form between a tram and a train, similar to metro except that it may have level crossings. These are often protected with crossing gates.
Maglev trains and monorails represent minor technologies in the train field.
The term rapid transit is used for public transport such as commuter trains, metro and light-rail.
See also people mover, trains in the Netherlands, trains in Germany, liberalization in train transport, driving.
Freight Trains
Freight wagons filled with limestone await unloading, at sidings in Rugby England UK
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Much of the world's freight is transported by train. In countries such as the USA the rail system is used mostly for transporting freight.
Under the right circumstances, transporting freight by train is highly economic, and also more energy efficient than transporting freight by road.
Rail freight is most economic, when freight is being carried in bulk and over long distances. But is less suited to short distances and small loads.
The main disadvantage of rail freight is its lack of flexibillity, for this reason, rail has lost much of the freight business to road competition. Many governments are now trying to encourage more freight onto trains, because of the environmental benefits that it would bring.
There are many different types of freight train, which are used to carry many different kinds of freight, with many different types of wagon. One of the most common types on modern railways are container trains, whereby the containers can be lifted on and off the train by cranes and loaded off or onto trucks or ships.
This type of freight train has largely superseded the traditional "box wagon" type of freight train, whereby the cargo had to be loaded or unloaded manually.
In some countries "piggy back" trains are used whereby trucks can drive straight onto the train and drive off again when the end destination is reached. A system like this is used on the Channel Tunnel between England and France. There are also some "inter-modal" vehicles, which have two sets of wheels, for use in a train, or as the trailer of a road vehicle.
There are also many other types of wagon, such as "low loader" wagons for transporting road vehicles. There are refrigerator wagons for transporting food. There are simple types of open-topped wagons for transporting minerals and bulk material such as coal and tankers for tranporting liquids and gases.
Freight trains are sometimes illegaly boarded by passengers who do not wish to or have the means to travel by ordinary means. This is referred to as "train-hopping" and is considered by some communities to be a viable form of transport. Most train-hoppers sneak into train yards and stow away in boxcars. More bold train-hoppers will catch a train "on the fly", that is, as it is moving, leading to occasional fatalities, some of which go unrecorded.
History
Trains were first utilized in Roman times. See rail transport, History of rail transport.
Famous historical train services include the Orient Express and the Trans-Siberian.
Train incidents in history
- 1953 Tangiwai disaster
- 1962 Harmelen train disaster, mun. Woerden, Netherlands http://danger-ahead.railfan.net/accidents/harmelen/home.html
- 1963 The Great Train Robbery of 1963 (not related to the films below)
- 1977 Granville railway disaster
- 1998 Eschede train disaster
- 2000 Kaprun disaster.
- 2000 Paddington Rail Disaster
Model railways
Toy trains have been popular with children since railroads were first built. In the 20th century, the hobby of model railroadinging, which attempts a more accurate depiction of railroad equipment and operation, gained popularity. Toy train collecting is also popular.
Fictional trains
- Hogwarts Express (Harry Potter)
- Taggart Comet (Atlas Shrugged)
- The Great Train Robbery -- first feature film to tell a story, also title of a modern film.
- Starlight Express (Andrew Lloyd Webber) -- Musical about an old steam engine being replaced by an electrical engine
External links
- High Speed Train
- Locomotives & Trainsets by Frans van den Hurk, featuring electric locomotives
Other meanings
- A caravan of wagons, mules or other forms of transport is also called a train.
- According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word train comes from French roots that mean "to drag or draw".
- Thus, the word also refers to the trailing part of a bride's dress, as well as to a powder train leading to an explosive.
- The verb to train, meaning "to educate", embodies the idea of drawing the student along.
- A sequence of incidents is called a train of events.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Train."
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A train station is a place where trains stop to allow passengers to enter and get off. These vary greatly, and may include platforms, tunnels, bridges and/or level crossings to reach the platforms, counters and/or machines where tickets are sold, waiting rooms, shelters and benches, etc.
A train station that is jointly used by several rail transport companies is sometimes called a union station.
Train station Lucerne, SwitzerlandNote that the term train station is American English. In British English the term railway station is usually used instead.
Terminus
A terminus is a station at the end of a railway. Platforms can be reached without crossing tracks.
Often a terminus is the final destination of a train, but not necessarily. Convenience of reversing direction is especially important if it is not. For such a train service preferably a train is used for which the driver just has to walk to the other side, i.e., it does not require connecting a locomotive on one side and disconnecting the other one. A multiple unit can be used, or in the case of a long train, one with both a pushing and a pulling locomotive. A train may also have a locomotive on one side and a passenger car with driver's cabin on the other side.
The same applies if the station is not a terminus, but the train service involves reversing direction anyway.
The first applies at:
The second applies at:
- The Hague Centraal, Netherlands (gvc) (at night only): multiple unit.
- Antwerp Centraal, Belgium (weekends only): locomotive on one side and a passenger car with driver's cabin on the other side.
Reversing direction often causes some worry to travellers who are inexperienced and have no detailed geographic knowledge of the railway lines: they think they will be going back all the way, but instead, there is of course a junction soon, where the train takes another branch than where it came from. Some travellers prefer facing forward; if possible they change place when there is a reversal of direction.
- Haarlem (hlm) and Utrecht (ut), Netherlands: multiple unit.
- Rotterdam Centraal (rtd), Netherlands (a few times a day on the route Amsterdam (asd) - Hoek van Holland (hld)): multiple unit.
For some more on this, see Commuter train.
Train stations in a tunnel
At train stations the railway is often at ground level or elevated. However, some train stations of regular railways are in a tunnel, like the underground stations of metro systems. These include:
The Netherlands:
Belgium:
- Schiphol Airport train station (shl), in the tunnel under the airport.
- Blaak station (rtb) in Rotterdam, in the tunnel under the Nieuwe Maas waterway. The station is on the north bank.
- Rijswijk station (rsw) near The Hague, in a tunnel under part of the suburb Rijswijk.
Poland:
- Brussels Central and a few other stations in the tunnel under Brussels.
Norway:
- Warsaw Centralna is in a tunnel under the city centre.
United States of America:
- Nationaltheatret station in Oslo, located in the Oslo tunnel.
- Grand Central Terminal in New York City, for Metro-North lines
Train stations at a crossing
Some train stations are at a non-level crossing of regular railway lines, providing stops on both lines. These include:
The Netherlands:
Australia:
- Amsterdam Sloterdijk station (ass): at ground level we have the railway from Amsterdam (asd) to Haarlem (hlm) and Alkmaar (amr), at elevated level the railway from Amsterdam (asd) to Schiphol Airport (shl) (and further to Leiden (ledn), Den Haag (gv/gvc)). The station hall is at an intermediate level. Map: [1].
- Duivendrecht (dvd) station (for details see there).
- Sydney Wolli Creek station: One platform is below ground serving the East Hills/Airport line, and one platform is above, serving the crossing Illawarra line.
Other special configurations
The Netherlands:
- Amsterdam Muiderpoort station (asdm): serves the line from Amsterdam to Utrecht and the line from Amsterdam to Weesp, and is situated just after the junction; the platforms are at different angles.
Convenience stores at train stations
Netherlands
- Albert Heijn
- Wizzle - also selling train tickets (they are typically at small stations which have no separate ticket window or counter; an exception is Rotterdam, with a Wizzle at the back side of the station, while separate ticket windows are at the front side only).
See also
Signal box, Transport, hump yard, Public transport, Metro station, Bus stop, Human positions, and:
- Train stations in the Netherlands
- Birmingham, England
- Birmingham New Street station
- Birmingham Snow Hill station
- Bristol, England
- Bristol Parkway rail station
- Bristol Temple Meads rail station
- Frankfurt am Main
- Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof
- London, England - List of London railway stations
- Blackheath railway station
- Cannon Street Station
- Clapham Junction railway station
- Euston station
- Kings Cross station
- Liverpool Street station
- London Bridge rail station
- Marylebone station
- Paddington station
- Waterloo Station
- Milan, Italy
- Milan Central Station
- New York City
- Pennsylvania Station
- Grand Central Station
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 30th Street Rail Station
- Tokyo, Japan
- Akihabara Station
- Ikebukuro Station
- Shibuya Station
- Shinagawa Station
- Shinjuku Station
- Tokyo Station
- Ueno Station
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Zurich Hauptbahnof
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Train station."
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| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TRAIN | English | Telerail Automated Information Network | Computing |
| TRAC | English | Train Regulation Advisory Control | N/A |
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Synonyms: TrainSynonyms: caravan (n), gearing (n), gears (n), geartrain (n), power train (n), railroad train (n), string (n), wagon train (n), aim (v), check (v), civilise (v), civilize (v), coach (v), condition (v), cultivate (v), develop (v), direct (v), discipline (v), educate (v), groom (v), prepare (v), rail (v), school (v), take (v), take aim (v), trail (v). (additional references) |
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Husbandry | Verb: tame, domesticate, acclimatize, breed, tend, break in, train; cage, bridle,. (restrain). |
Impulse | Habituate, inure, harden, season, caseharden; accustom, familiarize; naturalize, acclimatize; keep one's hand in; train; (educate). |
Journey | Vehicle; automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter',trolley, locomotive; legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters. |
Pendency | Noun: pendency, dependency; suspension, hanging; Verb: pedicel, pedicle, peduncle; tail, train, flap, skirt, pigtail, pony tail, pendulum; hangnail |
Rear | Wake; train; (sequence). |
Regression | Verb: draw, pull, haul, lug, rake, drag, tug, tow, trail, train; take in tow. |
Sequel | Noun: sequel, suffix, successor; tail, queue, train, wake, trail, rear; retinue, suite; appendix, postscript; epilogue; peroration; codicil; continuation, sequela; appendage; tail piece, heelpiece; tag, more last words; colophon. |
Sequence | Follower, attendant, satellite, shadow, dangler, train. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You give up your seat every day in the train. (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan; Fredric LeBow) Very shiny train. (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass) Then I suggest you take that damned thing to the corridor or some other part of the train where you obviously belong (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen) But he'll train others (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Well it's not a train. It's a prison word for escape (Midnight Express; writing credit: Billy Hayes; William Hoffer) | |
Lyrics | Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train (Peace Train; performing artist: Cat Stevens) Gonna board the midnight train ("Midnight Train to Georgia"; performing artist: Gladys Knight & The Pips) With a ticket for a runaway train (Runaway Train; performing artist: Soul Asylum) 'Til the morning brings my train. (Last Train to Clarksville; performing artist: The Monkees; writing credit: Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart) I'm throwing myself off this train (The Dean And I; performing artist: 10CC) | |
Clever | You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the track. (references; author: unknown) Buses stop at bus stations, trains at train stations, my desk has a workstation. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | The two-twenty-two train tore through the tunnel. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Gravy Train (1974) Le Train (1973) The Train Now Standing (1972) Le Train rouge (1972) Train Terrain (1971) | |
Song Titles | Groovy Train (performing artist: The Farm) Midnight Train to Georgia (performing artist: Gladys Knight & The Pips) Love Train (performing artist: O'Jays) C'mon N' Ride It (The Train) (performing artist: Quad City DJ's) Train, The (performing artist: The Roches) | |
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 | Epidemic curve for 54 symptomatic cases of acute pulmonary histoplasmosis in members of a wagon train. Bar graph. Am J Med 71:759. Credit: CDC. |  | Tokyo subway platform and train. Credit: CDC. |
 | Apollo 16 Astronauts Train for Lunar Landing Mission. Credit: NASA. |  | Setting the velocipede back on the tracks after train passes Level party of Herman Odessey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Pack train Triangulation party on the move. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Cat train enroute from Pitt Point to Point Lay. Train is hauled by caterpillar tractors - thus term "cat train". Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | A cat train on the move across the tundra Moving equipment and supplies from Barter Island to Tigvariak Island Black object is a boat hull for use in the summer. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | South China countryside - a view from the train. Credit: Small World. |
 | Train and traffic going to the Great Wall. Credit: Small World. |  | Cartons of broccoli transfered from train to refrigerated truck in Salinas, CA. Credit: USDA. |
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| "Train and sign" by Emily Kausalik Commentary: "Picture of a train passing by in wheaton, IL." | "Here Comes the Seven Train" by Lewis Long Commentary: "Shot of the 7 train coming by on 82nd Street in Queens, NY." |
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 | Train; alert; railroad; whistling; choo-choo; blow; chug; signal; airy; low. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself. |
Desiderius Erasmus | [Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train. |
John Milton | Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. |
Oscar Wilde | I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train. |
Seneca | Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. |
Thomas Carlyle | Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk. |
Thomas Jefferson | We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But if a long train of abuses, prevarications and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people, and they cannot but feel what they lie under, and see whither they are going; it is not to be wondered, that they should then rouze themselves, and endeavour to put the rule into such hands which may secure to them the ends for which government was at first erected; and without which, ancient names, and specious forms, are so far from being better, that they are much worse, than the state of nature, or pure anarchy; the inconveniencies being all as great and as near, but the remedy farther off and more difficult. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | It was no wonder that a train of twenty young couple now walked after her to church |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | MARY thinks a train met on arrival must not be counted, even when met on a previous occasion |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Every army has a train, and there the accusation should lie. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It made a roar like a train at night |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Why with some little train, my Lord of Buckingham |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | For instead of a long train with royal diadems, I saw in one family two fiddlers, three spruce courtiers, and an Italian prelate |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | He had not attended to the train of his thoughts long when he heard some one playing on a flute, and that sound harmonized with his mood |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You can train your bladder to hold urine better. (references) | |
Center staff conduct basic, clinical, and behavioral research, and train scientists and health care providers new to AD research. (references) | ||
In the second half of the cycle, the doses are slowly decreased to zero. This is sometimes followed by a second cycle in which the person continues to train but without drugs. (references) | ||
Business | These high-speed locomotive vehicles and heavy-load freight train cars depend on imported machine tools. (references) | |
Singapore’s four polytechnics train PE technologists in mechanical, manufacturing and materials engineering. (references) | ||
Among these were transportation (automobiles, train car accessories, etc.), electric appliances and house wares. (references) | ||
Children | Egypt | A number of NGO's are active in efforts to train and assist persons with disabilities. (references) |
Honduras | Casa Alianza continues to train police recruits at the National Police Academy in La Paz department. (references) | |
Peru | Some private companies have initiated programs to hire and train persons with disabilities, and a private foundation provides small loans to persons with disabilities to start up businesses. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Turkey | Under existing restrictions, including a citizenship requirement, religious communities remain unable to train new clergy. (references) |
Malaysia | Police set up roadblocks and monitored bus stations, train stations, and airports to turn back suspected opposition supporters. (references) | |
South Africa | Inadequate security on the trains allows many deportees to jump from the train en route, perpetuating the illegal immigration problem. (references) | |
Economic History | Seychelles | Their primary duty is to train pilots. (references) |
Morocco | Merchandise can be transported to and from the airport by truck or by train. (references) | |
Australia | The Victorian Government has also franchised its passenger train and tram operations. (references) | |
Human Rights | Guatemala | The project is intended to streamline legal cases involving minors and train judges about the human rights of children. (references) |
Hungary | A book on victim protection, used to train policemen and activists, also contains a list of all NGO's that provide protection to victims of crime. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | On November 24, six ZDF soldiers beat and threw Lameck Chemvura, a UZ student who they suspected of supporting the MDC, from a moving train; he subsequently died from his injuries. (references) | |
Minorities | Argentina | In January a Bolivian woman, Marcelina Meneses, and her 10-month-old Argentine son were insulted, then were pushed or fell from a suburban train. (references) |
Belgium | It is illegal for providers of goods or services (including housing) to discriminate on the basis of any of these factors and for employers to consider these factors in their decisions to hire, train, or dismiss workers. (references) | |
Macedonia | To raise the percentage of ethnic-minority police officers, the Framework Agreement calls on the international community to train 1,000 new ethnic-minority police officers by July 2003, and for the Macedonian police to incorporate these new recruits into ethnically diverse units. (references) | |
Political Economy | Bhutan | Programs to build a body of written law and to train lawyers are progressing. (references) |
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO | Either a permit is not granted to an official of a company competing with a local firm, or the authorities threaten to not renew a permit because a foreign firm has not done enough to train and promote a Trinidadian into the position. (references) | |
SPAIN | To combat this problem in the textile and leather goods sector, the government began to promote the creation and sale of devices to protect trademark goods and to train police and customs officials to detect counterfeit products more effectively. (references) | |
Trade | Argentina | TDA offered to train air traffic controllers at FAA facilities if a project to modernize the national radar system favors a U.S. supplier. (references) |
Travel | Slovak Rep | Overland travel by train is reliable. (references) |
Egypt | A non-stop Turbino train takes just over 2 hours. (references) | |
Women | Japan | The Tokyo Metropolitan Police organized a council with representatives of train companies to discuss antigroping measures in June. (references) |
Yemen | Donor-funded maternal and child health programs attempt to address these issues through programs designed to train midwives who serve rural populations. (references) | |
Guyana | The center plans to train an average of 350 women annually on issues such as women's rights, status of women, violence against women, and leadership development. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Qatar | They live in difficult conditions and train on a daily basis to become riders. (references) |
India | Some Mumbai NGO's have worked aggressively to sensitize, train, and create awareness of trafficking among local authorities. (references) | |
Tajikistan | Traffickers generally transport victims by air to the Middle East and by train to Russia and other former Soviet Union countries. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was. This tendency is most observable in the female of the species, in whom the ancestral sense is strong and persistent. The tailed men described by Lord Monboddo are now generally regarded as a product of an imagination unusually susceptible to influences generated in the golden age of our pithecan past. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
John McCain | I agree. And the fact is that Osama bin Laden, when he had sanctuary in terrorist camps, training camps, where he was able to train thousands of people, was a tremendous threat. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | But against the dangers of unconstitutional acts which, instead of menacing the vengeance of offended authority, proffer local advantages and bring in their train the patronage of the Government, we are, I fear, not so safe. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | I will be on a train on my way home to Independence, Missouri to become a plain citizen. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We must build more libraries in every area and more hospitals and nursing homes under the Hill-Burton Act, and train more nurses to staff them. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We'll increase funding to help states and communities train and equip our heroic police and firefighters. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Train" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.62% of the time. "Train" is used about 7,168 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 82.62% | 5,923 | 1,647 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 13.88% | 995 | 7,389 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.37% | 242 | 19,213 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.07% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.06% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7,168 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "train" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Train | Last name | 170 | 53,766 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Great Train Store Company |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "train": a goods train ♦ aboard the train ♦ accommodation train ♦ ambulance train ♦ an unexpected train of difficulties ♦ an up train ♦ armored train ♦ armoured train ♦ artillery train ♦ au Train ♦ automatic train protection ♦ automatic train supervision ♦ baggage train ♦ Battering train ♦ be on the gravy train ♦ block train ♦ board the train ♦ boat train ♦ bridal train ♦ bubble train ♦ bullet train ♦ bus train ♦ car train ♦ cargo train ♦ catch the train ♦ change train ♦ commuter train ♦ connecting train ♦ Construction train ♦ corridor train ♦ damped train ♦ down train ♦ downtown train ♦ EM train ♦ epicyclic gear train ♦ Epicyclic train ♦ everything is in train ♦ explosive train ♦ Express train ♦ fast train ♦ follow out one's train of thoughts ♦ Forge train ♦ freight train ♦ full train load ♦ gear train ♦ generating train ♦ get into the train ♦ get off the train ♦ get on board before the train leaves the station ♦ get on the gravy train ♦ ghost trai |
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