Word Type
Train can be a noun or a verb.
train used as a noun:
- A line of connected cars or carriages pushed or pulled by one or more locomotives, especially a railroad train which travels on a set of tracks.
"We rode the train to Mumbai." - 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." - The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.
- A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a train of events or a train of thought.
- A series of electrical pulses.
- A set of interconnected mechanical parts like the drive train of a car.
- That which is drawn along, like the part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.
"The train of her bridal gown caught on a nail."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
train used as a verb:
- To practice an ability.
"She trained seven hours a day to prepare for the Olympics." - To teach a task.
"You can't train a pig to write poetry." - 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." - (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."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is train?
- Noun usage: We rode the train to Mumbai.
- Noun usage: Our party formed a train at the funeral parlor before departing for the burial.
- Noun usage: The train of her bridal gown caught on a nail.
- Verb usage: She trained seven hours a day to prepare for the Olympics.
- Verb usage: You can't train a pig to write poetry.
- Verb usage: I trained with weights all winter.
- Verb usage: The assassin had trained his gun on the minister.
- Verb usage: The vine had been trained over the pergola.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of train are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of train, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
