v.
      - teach (a person or animal) a skill or type of behaviour through regular practice and instruction. 
▸be taught in such a way.
 - make or become physically fit through a course of exercise and diet.
 - 
(train something on)
 point or aim something at.
 - cause (a plant) to grow in a particular direction or into a required shape.
 - dated go by train.
 - archaic entice (someone).
 
n.
      - a series of railway carriages or wagons moved as a unit by a locomotive or by integral motors.
 - a number of vehicles or pack animals moving in a line. 
▸a retinue of attendants accompanying an important person.
 - a series of connected events or thoughts.
 - a long piece of trailing material attached to the back of a formal dress or robe.
 - a series of gears or other connected parts in machinery.
 - a trail of gunpowder for firing an explosive charge.
 
 
  Phrase
  
  Derivative
  
    - trainability n.
  - trainable adj.
  - training n.
  - trainload n.
 
   
  Etymology
  ME (as a noun in the sense ‘delay’): from OFr. train (masc.), traine (fem.), from trahiner (v.), from L. trahere ‘pull, draw’.