| 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 |
| cefr-level | A2 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a2
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