train
/ˈtɹeɪn/ verb A2- To practice an ability. · She trained seven hours a day to prepare for the Olympics.
- To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone). · You can't train a pig to write poetry.
- To feed data into an algorithm, usually based on a neural network, to create a machine learning model that can perform some task.
- To improve one's fitness. · I trained with weights all winter.
- To proceed in sequence.
- To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction. · The assassin had trained his gun on the minister.
- To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending. · The vine had been trained over the pergola.
- To transport (something) by train.
He/she/it trains · Past trained · Past participle trained · -ing form training
Verb forms
- Base form
- train
- He/she/it
- trains
- Past
- trained
- Past participle
- trained
- -ing form
- training
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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By the five-forty train in the morning he had sent his message to Scotland Yard, and he was at the Birlstone station at twelve o’clock to welcome us.
The inspector was himself dependent, as he explained to us, upon a scribbled account forwarded to him by the milk train in the early hours of the morning.
“We are forbidden to give you any explanation.” Dantès, trained in discipline, knew that nothing would be more absurd than to question subordinates, who were forbidden to reply; and so he remained silent.
Wire me what train in the morning you can get for Birlstone, and I will meet it—or have it met if I am too occupied.
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