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Train Long Thought Connected Pulled Events Dress Noun

word train
definition
noun
A train is a number of carriages, cars, or trucks which are all connected together and which are pulled by an engine along a railway. Trains carry people and goods from one place to another.
The train pulled into a station.
We can catch the early morning train.
He arrived in Shenyang by train yesterday.
A train of vehicles, people, or animals is a long line of them travelling slowly in the same direction.
In the old days this used to be done with a baggage train of camels.
...a long train of oil tankers.
A train of thought or a train of events is a connected sequence, in which each thought or event seems to occur naturally or logically as a result of the previous one.
He lost his train of thought for a moment, then recovered it.
Giles set in motion a train of events which would culminate in tragedy.
The train of a woman's formal dress or wedding dress is the long part at the back of it which flows along the floor behind her.
inflections trains
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