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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Accommodation \Ac*com`mo*da"tion\, n. [L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.] [1913 Webster] 1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster] 2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. [1913 Webster] 3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. "To come to terms of accommodation." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. [1913 Webster] Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. --Paley. [1913 Webster] 6. (Com.) (a) A loan of money. (b) An accommodation bill or note. [1913 Webster] {Accommodation bill}, or {note} (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. {Accommodation coach}, or {train}, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. {Accommodation ladder} (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Train \Train\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trained}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Training}.] [OF. trahiner, tra["i]ner,F. tra[^i]ner, LL. trahinare, trainare, fr. L. trahere to draw. See {Trail}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To draw along; to trail; to drag. [1913 Webster] In hollow cube Training his devilish enginery. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call To train ten thousand English to their side. --Shak. [1913 Webster] O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note. --Shak. [1913 Webster] This feast, I'll gage my life, Is but a plot to train you to your ruin. --Ford. [1913 Webster] 3. To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms. [1913 Webster] Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation. --Milton. [1913 Webster] The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen. [1913 Webster] 5. (Hort.) To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees. [1913 Webster] He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left. --Jeffrey. [1913 Webster] 6. (Mining) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head. [1913 Webster] {To train a gun} (Mil. & Naut.), to point it at some object either forward or else abaft the beam, that is, not directly on the side. --Totten. {To train}, or {To train up}, to educate; to teach; to form by instruction or practice; to bring up. [1913 Webster] Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. --Prov. xxii. 6. [1913 Webster] The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Train \Train\, v. i. 1. To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company. [1913 Webster] 2. To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Train \Train\, n. [F. train, OF. tra["i]n, trahin; cf. (for some of the senses) F. traine. See {Train}, v.] 1. That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. [Obs.] "Now to my charms, and to my wily trains." --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare. --Halliwell. [1913 Webster] With cunning trains him to entrap un wares. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 3. That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear. Specifically : [1913 Webster] (a) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer. [1913 Webster] (b) (Mil.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail. [1913 Webster] (c) The tail of a bird. "The train steers their flights, and turns their bodies, like the rudder of ship." --Ray. [1913 Webster] 4. A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite. [1913 Webster] The king's daughter with a lovely train. --Addison. [1913 Webster] My train are men of choice and rarest parts. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. A consecution or succession of connected things; a series. "A train of happy sentiments." --I. Watts. [1913 Webster] The train of ills our love would draw behind it. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Rivers now Stream and perpetual draw their humid train. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 6. Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement. [1913 Webster] If things were once in this train, . . . our duty would take root in our nature. --Swift. [1913 Webster] 7. The number of beats of a watch in any certain time. [1913 Webster] 8. A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like. [1913 Webster] 9. A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad; -- called also {railroad train}. [1913 Webster] 10. A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like. [1913 Webster] 11. (Rolling Mill) A roll train; as, a 12-inch train. [1913 Webster] 12. (Mil.) The aggregation of men, animals, and vehicles which accompany an army or one of its subdivisions, and transport its baggage, ammunition, supplies, and reserve materials of all kinds. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] {Roll train}, or {Train of rolls} (Rolling Mill), a set of plain or grooved rolls for rolling metal into various forms by a series of consecutive operations. {Train mile} (Railroads), a unit employed in estimating running expenses, etc., being one of the total number of miles run by all the trains of a road, or system of roads, as within a given time, or for a given expenditure; -- called also {mile run}. {Train of artillery}, any number of cannon, mortars, etc., with the attendants and carriages which follow them into the field. --Campbell (Dict. Mil. Sci.). {Train of mechanism}, a series of moving pieces, as wheels and pinions, each of which is follower to that which drives it, and driver to that which follows it. {Train road}, a slight railway for small cars, -- used for construction, or in mining. {Train tackle} (Naut.), a tackle for running guns in and out. [1913 Webster] Syn: Cars. Usage: {Train}, {Cars}. At one time "train" meaning railroad train was also referred to in the U. S. by the phrase "the cars". In the 1913 dictionary the usage was described thus: "Train is the word universally used in England with reference to railroad traveling; as, I came in the morning train. In the United States, the phrase the cars has been extensively introduced in the room of train; as, the cars are late; I came in the cars. The English expression is obviously more appropriate, and is prevailing more and more among Americans, to the exclusion of the cars." [1913 Webster +PJC] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: train n 1: public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive; "express trains don't stop at Princeton Junction" [syn: {train}, {railroad train}] 2: a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding; "a string of islands"; "train of mourners"; "a train of thought" [syn: {string}, {train}] 3: a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file; "we were part of a caravan of almost a thousand camels"; "they joined the wagon train for safety" [syn: {caravan}, {train}, {wagon train}] 4: a series of consequences wrought by an event; "it led to a train of disasters" 5: piece of cloth forming the long back section of a gown that is drawn along the floor; "the bride's train was carried by her two young nephews" 6: wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed; "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain" [syn: {gearing}, {gear}, {geartrain}, {power train}, {train}] v 1: create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future" [syn: {train}, {develop}, {prepare}, {educate}] 2: undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession; "She is training to be a teacher"; "He trained as a legal aid" [syn: {train}, {prepare}] 3: develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained?" [syn: {discipline}, {train}, {check}, {condition}] 4: educate for a future role or function; "He is grooming his son to become his successor"; "The prince was prepared to become King one day"; "They trained him to be a warrior" [syn: {prepare}, {groom}, {train}] 5: teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: {educate}, {school}, {train}, {cultivate}, {civilize}, {civilise}] 6: point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards; "Please don't aim at your little brother!"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent" [syn: {aim}, {take}, {train}, {take aim}, {direct}] 7: teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports; "He is training our Olympic team"; "She is coaching the crew" [syn: {coach}, {train}] 8: exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition; "She is training for the Olympics" 9: cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it; "train the vine" 10: travel by rail or train; "They railed from Rome to Venice"; "She trained to Hamburg" [syn: {train}, {rail}] 11: drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground; "The toddler was trailing his pants"; "She trained her long scarf behind her" [syn: {trail}, {train}] From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: train /tʀɛ̃/ train