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<i>n.i>
row of connected railroad cars
1) to drive a train
2) to shunt trains (onto different tracks)
3) to board, get on; catch; get off; miss; take a train (we took a train to the city)
4) to change trains (we'll have to change trains in Chicago)
5) to flag down; hold; stop a train (to stop a train by pulling the communication/emergency cord)
6) a boat; commuter; down (<i>BEi>) ('from a city'); electric; elevated; express; freight (<i>AEi>), goods (<i>BEi>); hospital; inbound; local; long-distance; outbound; passenger; shuttle; slow (<i>BEi>); stopping (<i>BEi>); suburban; through; up (<i>BEi>) ('to a city') train
7) a train arrives, pulls in; derails; leaves, pulls out; stops
8) a train for, to; from (the train from Exeter to London)
9) by train (to travel by train)
10) aboard, on a train (we met on the train)
column
11) a mule; supply; wagon train
mechanism for transmitting power
12) a power train
II
<i>v.i>
1) (<i>Di>; <i>intr.i>, <i>tr.i>) to train for (to train for the Olympics)
2) (<i>Di>; <i>tr.i>) to train in (to train smb. in defensive driving)
3) (<i>di>; <i>tr.i>) ('to aim') to train on (he trained his gun on the intruder)
4) (<i>Hi>) they were trained to react instantaneously to an attack; they trained the workers to be precise