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trein

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Engels > Engels

train

1. n. Elongated portion.

2. n. The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.

Unfortunately, the leading bridesmaid stepped on the bride's train as they were walking down the aisle.

3. n. A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.

4. n. The tail of a bird.

5. n. (astronomy) A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere.

6. n. (now rare) An animal's trail or track.

7. n. Connected sequence of people or things.

8. n. A group of people following an important figure, king etc.; a retinue, a group of retainers.

9. n. A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.

Our party formed a train at the funeral parlor before departing for the burial.

10. n. A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something.

11. n. (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.

12. n. A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.

13. n. A series of electrical pulses.

14. n. A series of specified vehicles, originally tramcars in a mine, and later especially railway carriages, coupled together.

15. n. A line of connected railway cars or carriages considered overall as a mode of transport; (as unnoun) rail travel.

The train will pull in at midday.

16. n. A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.

17. n. (computing) A software release schedule.

18. n. (sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape.

19. v. (intransitive) To practice an ability.

She trained seven hours a day to prepare for the Olympics.

20. v. To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise with discipline.

You can't train a pig to write poetry.

21. v. (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.

I trained with weights all winter.

22. v. To proceed in sequence.

23. v. To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.

The assassin had trained his gun on the minister.

24. v. (transitive, horticulture) 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.

25. v. (mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.

26. v. (transitive, video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).

27. v. (obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.

28. v. (obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.

29. n. (obsolete) Treachery; deceit.

30. n. (obsolete) A trick or stratagem.

31. n. (obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare.

32. n. (obsolete) A lure; a decoy.

Nederlands > Engels

trein

1. n-m. train (railway vehicle)

2. n-m. (dated) train, convoy, retinue, procession

Uitspraak

Voorbeeldzinnen

You'll get there in time, so long as you don't miss the train.
    Je zult er op tijd aankomen, zolang je tenminste de trein niet mist.
I was just in time for the last train.
    Ik heb net nog de laatste trein gehaald.
When I left the train station, I saw a man.
    Toen ik het treinstation uitging, zag ik een man.
It seems that they took the wrong train.
    Het lijkt erop dat zij de verkeerde trein hebben genomen.
He took the wrong train by mistake.
    Hij nam per ongeluk de verkeerde trein.

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