Usually means: Vehicle running on guided tracks.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. train: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. train, train: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. train: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. train: Collins English Dictionary
  5. train: Vocabulary.com
  6. Train, train: Wordnik
  7. train: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Train, train: Wiktionary
  9. train: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. train: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. train: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. train: Dictionary.com
  13. train (n.), train (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. train: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. TRAIN, The Train (short story), The Train, Train (3 Doors Down song), Train (Band), Train (Goldfrapp song), Train (album), Train (band), Train (clothing), Train (disambiguation), Train (film), Train (military), Train (roller coaster), Train: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Train: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. train: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. train: Rhymezone
  19. train: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. train: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. TRAIN: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. train: Free Dictionary
  23. train: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Train: The Word Detective
  25. train: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. train: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Train: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. train: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  3. train: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. train: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. train: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. TRAIN: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. train: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TRAIN: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. train, train, train, train: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Train: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. The Train: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Train: Card Games

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Elongated or trailing portion.
noun:  The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
noun:  A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.
noun:  The tail of a bird.
noun:  (obsolete) The tail of an animal in general.
noun:  (poetic) The elongated body or form of something narrow and winding, such as the course of a river or the body of a snake.
noun:  (astronomy) A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere or accompanying a comet as it nears the sun; tail.
noun:  (now rare) An animal's trail or track.
noun:  (obsolete, hunting) Something dragged or laid along the ground to form a trail of scent or food along which to lure an animal.
noun:  (obsolete) Gait or manner of running of a horse.
noun:  Connected sequence of people or things.
noun:  A group of people following an important figure such as a king or noble; a retinue, a group of retainers.
noun:  A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.
noun:  (figuratively, poetic) A group or class of people.
noun:  (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.
noun:  A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something.
noun:  A set of things, events, or circumstances that follow after or as a consequence; aftermath, wake.
noun:  (obsolete) State of progress, status, situation (in phrases introduced by in a + adjective); also proper order or situation (introduced by in or in a alone).
noun:  A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.
noun:  A series of electrical pulses.
noun:  A series of specified vehicles (originally tramcars in a mine as usual, later especially railway carriages) coupled together.
noun:  A mechanical (originally steam-powered, now typically diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track or path; a line of connected wagons considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail or road travel.
noun:  (informal) A service on a railway line.
noun:  A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
noun:  (computing) A software release schedule.
noun:  (sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape.
verb:  (intransitive) To practice an ability.
verb:  (transitive) To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
verb:  (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
verb:  (intransitive) To proceed in sequence.
verb:  (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
verb:  (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
verb:  (transitive, machine learning) To feed data into an algorithm, usually based on a neural network, to create a machine learning model that can perform some task.
verb:  (transitive) To transport (something) by train.
verb:  (transitive, mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
verb:  (transitive, video games) To create a trainer (cheat patch) for; to apply cheats to (a game).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To draw (something) along; to trail, to drag (something).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, of clothing) To trail down or along the ground.
noun:  (uncountable, obsolete) Treachery; deceit.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) A trick or stratagem.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) A trap for animals, a snare; (figuratively) a trap in general.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) A lure; a decoy.
noun:  (countable, obsolete, falconry) A live bird, handicapped or disabled in some way, provided for a young hawk to kill as training or enticement.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) A clue or trace.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
verb:  (obsolete, colloquial) To be on intimate terms with.
noun:  (obsolete) train oil, whale oil.
noun:  A surname.

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