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)

• Rest
• ease
• disuse
• respite
• relax
• recreate

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.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• EVOLVENT
  The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.
• 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.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• 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.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• CADRE
  The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be