train set
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- noun
- /treɪn sɛt/
:
tren de juguete
- Every year, the family sets up a large train set around the Christmas tree for everyone to enjoy.
- an electric train set
Examples
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A mad child's collections of toys, rocking horses, train sets, ventriloquists' dummies, butterflies, scarabs, beetles, and glass eyes staring at her from the blackness.
Fiction book (1998) -
In an act of desperation, my remote picked up the engine from the train set off the floor.
Fiction book (1998) -
The boys also got this amazing Thomas and Friends train set, but it actually has not even been set up yet so they've not even played with it yet.
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Mickey kept his back to me and idly picked up the caboose from the train set with his right hand.
Fiction book (1998) -
" Mickey swept the train set from the windowsill to the floor and stamped his feet.
Fiction book (1998) -
Later, when the stockings were hung, milk and cookies were put out for Santa, and four excited children were in bed, Ellen watched her father offering advice to Scott, David, and Bob while they assembled a train set that was to be given to Ricky.
Fiction book (1998) -
I tore off the paper-brown bags from the grocery store, and inside the box, I found a Quaker Oatmeal carton filled with marbles, the locomotive from an electric train set, and three silver dollars.
Fiction book (1998) -
For his birthday, he received a beautiful train set that included tracks and miniature engines.
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As a child, she loved playing with her electric train set on rainy days.
How Complex
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Given the provided constituent senses ('train' as a railway vehicle and 'set' as a group), a B1 learner would most likely interpret 'train set' as a toy or collection of trains rather than a dataset for model training. The machine-learning sense depends on 'train' as a verb/adjectival concept ('training') or the established collocation 'training set', so the meaning is not predictable from the literal parts and is therefore opaque.
Etymology
Train set originally names a toy made of small model trains and the tracks they run on. Imagine tiny engines running on a table, and the word set shows it is a 'group' of toys, so the phrase means a toy collection of trains and tracks.