Train vs Station - What's the difference?

train | station |

As nouns the difference between train and station

is that train is elongated portion or train can be (obsolete) treachery; deceit while station is station.

As a verb train

is to practice an ability.

train

English

(wikipedia train)

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) . The verb was derived from the noun in Middle English.

Noun

(en noun)

Elongated portion.

# The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.

#* 1817 , (Jane Austen), Northanger Abbey :

They called each other by their Christian name, were always arm in arm when they walked, pinned up each other's train for the dance, and were not to be divided in the set [...].

#* 2011 , Imogen Fox, The Guardian , 20 Apr 2011:

Lace sleeves, a demure neckline, a full skirt and a relatively modest train .

# A trail or line (of) something, especially gunpowder.

#* 1873 , (Charlotte Mary Yonge), Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for the little ones :

A party was sent to search, and there they found all the powder ready prepared, and, moreover, a man with a lantern, one Guy Fawkes, who had undertaken to be the one to set fire to the train of gunpowder, hoping to escape before the explosion.

Connected sequence of people or things.

# A group of people following an important figure, king etc.; a retinue, a group of retainers.

#* 1610 , , act 5 scene 1

Sir, I invite your Highness and your train / To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest /For this one night

#* 2009 , (Anne Easter Smith), The King's Grace :

Grace was glad the citizenry did not know Katherine Gordon was in the king's train , but she was beginning to understand Henry's motive for including the pretender's wife.

# A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.

# A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure (of) something.

#* 1872 , (Charles Darwin), The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals :

A man may be absorbed in the deepest thought, and his brow will remain smooth until he encounters some obstacle in his train of reasoning, or is interrupted by some disturbance, and then a frown passes like a shadow over his brow.

#* 2012 , Rory Carroll, The Guardian , 18 Jun 2012:

"Where was I?" he asked several times during the lunch, losing his train of thought.

# (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.

# A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.

# A series of electrical pulses.

# A series (of) specified vehicles, originally tramcars in a mine, and later especially railway carriages, coupled together.

# A line of connected railway cars or carriages considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail travel.

#*
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#* 2009 , (Hanif Kureishi), The Guardian , 24 Jan 2009:

This winter we thought we'd go to Venice by train , for the adventure.

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# A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.

# (sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a woman or bottom, especially as a form of gang rape.

#* 1988 , X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (New York, N.Y.), Bomb: Issues 26-29 , link

Then Swooney agreed, "Yeah, let's run a train up the fat cunt."

#* 2005 , Violet Blue, Best Women's Erotica 2006: Volume 2001 , link

“You want us to run a train on you?”

#* 2010 , Diesel King, A Good Time in the Hood , page 12

We eventually began to decide that with the endless supply of men we had there was no need to only run trains , or gangbang, the insatiables.

Derived terms

* ammunition train * baggage train * freight train * goods train * it's not the whistle that pulls the train * mail train * pack train * railroad train * railway train * road train * steam train * supply train * trainiac * trainmaster * train track * vactrain * wagon train

Descendants

* Irish: (l) * Welsh:

Verb

(en verb)
To practice an ability.

To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise with discipline.

* Dryden

The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train .

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To improve one's fitness.

To proceed in sequence.

To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.

(horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.

* Jeffrey

He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left.

(mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.

(video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).

* 2000 , "Sensei David O.E. Mohr - Lord Ronin from Q-Link", WTB:"The Last V-8" C128 game -name correction'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.cbm )

I got a twix on the 128 version being fixed and trained by Mad Max at M2K BBS 208-587-7636 in Mountain Home Idaho. He fixes many games and puts them on his board. One of my sources for games and utils.

(obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.

* Milton

In hollow cube / Training his devilish enginery.

(obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.

* Shakespeare

If but a dozen French / Were there in arms, they would be as a call / To train ten thousand English to their side.

* Shakespeare

O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note.

* Ford

This feast, I'll gage my life, / Is but a plot to train you to your ruin.

Derived terms

* trainer * training * weight-train * weight training

Etymology 2

From (etyl) traine, (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
(obsolete) Treachery; deceit.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:

In the meane time, through that false Ladies traine / He was surprisd, and buried under beare, / Ne ever to his worke returnd againe [...].

(obsolete) A trick or stratagem.

(obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare.

(obsolete) A lure; a decoy.

Anagrams

* (l) English ergative verbs 1000 English basic words ----

station
English

Noun
(en noun)
(label) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.

* 1646 , Sir (Thomas Browne), (Pseudodoxia Epidemica) , III.5:

(label) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.

A stopping place.

# A regular stopping place for ground transportation.

# A ground transportation depot.

# A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.

#* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)

"Meanwhile, lest anything should really be amiss, or any malefactor seek to escape by the back, you and the boy must go round the corner with a pair of good sticks and take your post at the laboratory door. We give you ten minutes, to get to your stations ."

#* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/2
, passage=He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.}}
# (label) A gas station, service station.

#* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.

A place where workers are stationed.

# An official building from which police or firefighters operate.

# A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.

# A military base.

# A place used for broadcasting radio or television.

# A very large sheep or cattle farm.

#* 1890 , ,

There was movement at the station , for the word had passed around, / that the colt from old Regret had got away,

#* 1993 , Kay Walsh, Joy W. Hooton, Dowker, L. O.'', entry in ''Australian Autobiographical Narratives: 1850-1900 , page 69,

Tiring of sheep, he took work on cattle stations', mustering cattle on vast unfenced holdings, and looking for work ‘n-gg-r-bossing’, or supervising Aboriginal ' station hands.

#* 2003 , Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, Rough Guide to Australia , page 654,

The romance of the gritty station owner in a crumpled Akubra, his kids educated from the remote homestead by the School of the Air, while triple-trailer road trains drag tornadoes of dust across the plains, creates a stirring idea of the modern-day pioneer battling against the elemental Outback.

One of the Stations of the Cross.

The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.

A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.

Standing; rank; position.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

The greater part have kept, I see, / Their station .

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

they in France of the best rank and station

A broadcasting entity.

(label) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.

(label) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.

The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.

(label) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.

Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.

* (1656-1715)

By spending this day [Sunday] in religious exercises, we acquire new strength and resolution to perform God's will in our several stations the week following.

Synonyms

* (broadcasting entity) (that broadcasts television) channel * (ground transport depot) sta (abbreviation) * (military base) base, military base * (large sheep or cattle farm) farm, ranch

Derived terms

* base station * battle station * broadcast station, broadcast-station * bus station * cattle station * coach station * docking station * filling station * fire station * fuel station * fueling station, fuelling station * gas station * guard station * hill station * hydrogen station * listening station * metro station * mobile station, mobile-station * motor station * outstation * petrol filling station * petrol station * PlayStation, Playstation * police station * polling station * power station * pull station * radar station * radio station, radio-station * railroad station * railway station * relay station * service station * sheep station * space station, spacestation, space-station * substation * subway station * state * stationary * station bill * station break * station hand * stationmaster * station sedan * Stations of the Cross * station throat * station wagon, station-wagon * stationward * substation * subway station * television station, television-station, TV station * total station * train station * Tube station * underground station * urination station * voting station * way station, waystation * weigh station * work station, workstation

References

* (Newfoundland station)

Verb

(en-verb) (transitive)

To put in place to perform a task.

The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.

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The Costa Rican's lofted corner exposed Arsenal's own problems with marking, and Berbatov, stationed right in the middle of goal, only needed to take a gentle amble back to find the space to glance past Vito Mannone

To put in place to perform military duty.

They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.