[treɪn], (Verb)

Definitions:
- teach (a person or animal) a particular skill or type of behaviour through practice and instruction over a period of time
(e.g: the scheme trains people for promotion)

- point or aim something, typically a gun or camera, at
(e.g: the detective trained his gun on the side door)

- go by train
(e.g: Charles trained to London with Emma)

- entice (someone)


Phrases:
- in one's train
- in train
- train of thought

Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French train (masculine), traine (feminine), from trahiner (verb), from Latin trahere ‘pull, draw’. Early noun senses were ‘trailing part of a robe’ and ‘retinue’; the latter gave rise to ‘line of travelling people or vehicles’, later ‘a connected series of things’. The early verb sense ‘cause a plant to grow in a desired shape’ was the basis of the sense ‘instruct’

[treɪn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a series of connected railway carriages or wagons moved by a locomotive or by integral motors
(e.g: a freight train)

- a number of vehicles or pack animals moving in a line
(e.g: a camel train)

- a long piece of material attached to the back of a formal dress or robe that trails along the ground
(e.g: the bride wore a cream silk dress with a train)

- a trail of gunpowder for firing an explosive charge


Phrases:
- in one's train
- in train
- train of thought

Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French train (masculine), traine (feminine), from trahiner (verb), from Latin trahere ‘pull, draw’. Early noun senses were ‘trailing part of a robe’ and ‘retinue’; the latter gave rise to ‘line of travelling people or vehicles’, later ‘a connected series of things’. The early verb sense ‘cause a plant to grow in a desired shape’ was the basis of the sense ‘instruct’