word-vault/dist/data/cards/tr/train.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "train",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "image": "data/images/ve/vehicles_trains.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a number of connected coaches or trucks, pulled by an engine or powered by a motor in each one, taking people and goods from one place to another",
            "sensetop": "by train",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **get on/off a train**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I like travelling by train.",
                    "contextForm": "by train"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **passenger/commuter train**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an express/a steam/a bullet train"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to catch/take/get the train to London"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He **boarded the train** in Kansas City."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a train journey/driver/operator"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Basel's main **train station**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He **boarded the train** in Kansas City."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You have to **change trains** at Reading."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are regular train services to Edinburgh and Glasgow."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The train is running late/on time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was on a platform waiting for a train."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't stop now, I have a train to catch."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I got the through train to Manchester."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was late and had to run for my train."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm going to the station to meet her off the train."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company plans to run trains on key intercity routes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The high-speed train travels at 120 mph."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The last train leaves at 00.30."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The next train to arrive at Platform 2 is the 12.30 from Leeds."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The train now standing at Platform 3 is the 16.50 to Brighton."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The train terminated in Baltimore."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We had to get up early to make the 6 o'clock train for Florence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What are the times of the return trains?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an express train bound for Edinburgh"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Paris to Brussels train"
                },
                {
                    "text": "trains between Cape Town and Pretoria"
                },
                {
                    "text": "train loads of iron ore"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Transport by bus and train"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["railroad", "railway", "metro"],
                "verb + train": ["take", "travel by", "ride"],
                "train + verb": ["run", "start", "terminate"],
                "train + noun": ["journey", "ride", "trip"],
                "preposition": [
                    "aboard a/​the train",
                    "on a/​the train",
                    "on board a/​the train"
                ],
                "phrases": ["a train to catch"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a number of people or animals moving in a line",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a camel train"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["camel", "mule", "wagon"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a series of events or actions that are connected",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His death set in motion a **train of events** that led to the outbreak of war."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verb + train": ["set something in", "bring something in", "break"],
                "phrases": ["a train of events", "a train of thought"],
                "preposition": ["in somebody’s train"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the part of a long formal dress that spreads out on the floor behind the person wearing it",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to have something as a result",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Unemployment brings great difficulties in its train."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "following behind somebody",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "In the train of the rich and famous came the journalists."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to prepare or start something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "That telephone call set in train a whole series of events."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the connected series of thoughts that are in your head at a particular time",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The phone ringing interrupted my train of thought."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I lose my train of thought when there are distractions."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/treɪn/",
                "audio": "tr/train/train__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/treɪn/",
                "audio": "tr/train/train__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘delay’): 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’."
}