🚆 A railway vehicle 🏫 To teach skills 🏃 To prepare physically 🚶 A line of things 🎯 To point at 🚆 To travel ⚙️ Connected gears 👗 A dress tail 🌱 To guide growth 🤖 To teach a computer

to train

2 5.0

To guide a plant to grow along a support

verb
/treɪn/

Specialized

: entrenar

If you you train it in the right way, it could grow on grains, could grow on logs of wood.

If you you train it in the right way, it could grow on grains, could grow on logs of wood.

Examples

Our women cultivate our portion of the corn hills while the men hunt and train our boys.

Fiction book (2002)
You have to learn to train your mind well beyond motivation.
"Normally a plant can just move an operation and train them over there."

Blog text (6)
It's never too young to train them up, is it?

Blog text (26)
I fed this branch through and it's already trying to train itself to grow up there.
I can plant the trunk, you know, right along the center beam and then train it out either way.
To stop the slice, train the movement, not muscles.

Blog text (2)
Of course, the good news is that habits are not innate and we can train ourselves to develop the right ones!

Blog text (24)
You can feel that frequency and then train yourself to hang in there, you know, while you're doing what you called to do in the world.
Gardeners often train plants to grow in specific shapes by carefully guiding their branches.

Synonyms

to trail

vsto train

30 1.6

Let something hang so it touches the ground behind you

guides growth or movement deliberately instead of merely dragging along

to trellis

vsto train

1 6.0

To tie or guide a climbing plant to grow on a frame

guides growth in general and can also let parts drag along the ground

Antonyms

to neglect

189 3.8

Fail to care for someone or something you should look after

Phrasal Verbs

to train together

9 2.7

To practice together as a group to improve skills

to toilet-train

2 3.5

Teach a young child to use the toilet instead of diapers

to house-train

1 3.5

To teach a pet to go to the toilet in the right place inside a home

Compounds

train station

96 1.0

A place where trains stop for people and goods to get on and off

freight train

39 2.8

A long train that carries goods instead of people

train of thought

Informal

17 3.6

A set of ideas that follow each other in your mind

commuter train

12 2.5

A train that carries people who travel regularly between home and work or school in a city

gravy train

Informal

12 6.9

A situation where someone gets a lot of money for little work

train ticket

11 1.0

A paper or digital pass that lets you travel on a train

subway train

10 2.1

A train that runs under a city to carry people

train set

10 1.2

A toy with small trains and tracks to play with

passenger train

8 1.5

A train that carries people, not goods

bullet train

8 2.8

A very fast passenger train that runs on special tracks like those in Japan

wagon train

8 3.8

A line of wagons that travel together for safety on long journeys

train depot

4 3.1

A place where trains stop to load people or goods

railroad train

3 1.8

A long line of connected cars that runs on tracks and carries people or goods

train fare

2 1.6

Money you pay to travel by train

slow train

1 2.5

A train that stops at many stations and takes a long time

power train

Specialized

1 5.1

Connected gears and parts that send power from a vehicle's engine or motor to its wheels

mail train

Archaic

1 2.6

A train that carries letters and packages for the post

train set

Specialized

1 4.2

A group of example data used to teach a computer program

car train

1 4.5

A train that carries people and their cars

wave train

Specialized

1 7.3

A group of similar waves that follow each other at regular times

hype train

Slang

1 6.0

A fast rise in excitement among many people about a new product or event, often driven online

train dispatcher

1 5.0

A person who directs trains and controls their movement on railway tracks

boat train

1 4.8

A train that takes people to a port to catch a ship

milk train

Archaic

1 6.5

A train that carries fresh milk from farms to cities

hospital train

Specialized

1 4.0

A train equipped with beds and doctors to carry and treat sick or wounded people

train oil

Archaic

1 9.9

An oil made from whale fat used long ago for lamps and soap

epicyclic gear train

Specialized

6.5

A set of gears where one gear moves around a central gear while spinning to change speed or force

epicyclic train

Specialized

9.9

A set of gears where one gear turns around another fixed gear in a gearbox

liner train

Specialized

5.6

A fast train that carries goods over long distances between factories and seaports and loads quickly

parly train

Archaic

9.9

A cheap train that runs only a few times to meet old laws and keep a line open

How Guided

to train

Specialized

2 5.0

to guide

260 1.0

to tie

702 1.0

to prune

18 3.4

Surface Forms

train infinitive

trained past

trained past participle

training present participle

trains third person singular

Etymology

To train plants means to guide their growth along a support or line, which follows the original idea of 'leading' or arranging parts so they grow the way you want.