Say vs Train - What's the difference?

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Say is a synonym of train.

As a proper noun Say

is .

As a noun train is

elongated portion or train can be (obsolete) treachery; deceit.

As a verb train is

to practice an ability.

Say

English

(wikipedia say)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) seyen, seien, seggen, &c., from (etyl) .

Verb

To pronounce.

To recite.

* , chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}

To communicate, either verbally or in writing.

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* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said . And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.}}

To indicate in a written form.

(impersonal) To have a common expression; (used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact).

* 1815 , :

They say that Hope is happiness; But genuine Love must prize the past.

* 1819 , Great Britain Court of Chancery, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery , page 8:

It is said , a bargain cannot be set aside upon inadequacy only.

* 1841 , Christopher Marshall, The Knickerbocker (New-York Monthly Magazine) , page 379:

It’s said that fifteen wagon loads of ready-made clothes for the Virginia troops came to, and stay in, town to-night.

(informal, imperative) Let's say; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.

* 1984 , (Martin Amis), Money: a suicide note?

I've followed Selina down the strip, when we're shopping, say , and she strolls on ahead, wearing sawn-off jeans and a wash-withered T-shirt

To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

You have said ; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

To this argument we shall soon have said ; for what concerns it us to hear a husband divulge his household privacies?

Synonyms

* See

Derived terms

* dessay * doomsaying * nay-say * saith * sayeth * sayer * saying * there is much to be said * what do you say * you don't say

Noun

(en noun)

One's stated opinion or input into a discussion or decision.

* 2004 , Richard Rogers, Information politics on the Web

Above all, however, we would like to think that there is more to be decided, after the engines and after the humans have had their says .

References

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Etymology 2

Grammaticalization of the verb. In the case of the conjunction, it could be considered an elision of "Let's say that" and for the "for example" sense of "Let's say"

Adverb

(-)

(colloquial) (non-gloss definition, Used to gain one's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion)

Say , what did you think about the movie?

For example; let us assume.

Pick a color you think they'd like, say , peach.

He was driving pretty fast, say , fifty miles per hour.

Synonyms

* (used to gain attention) hey

Conjunction

(English Conjunctions)

(informal) (Used to introduce a hypothetical)

Say your family is starving and you don't have any money, is it ok to steal some food?

Etymology 3

From (etyl) saie, from (etyl) saga, plural of .

Noun

(-)

A type of fine cloth similar to serge.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iv:

All in a kirtle of discolourd say / He clothed was

Etymology 4

Aphetic form of assay.

Verb

(en verb)

To try; to assay.

(Ben Jonson)

Noun

(en noun)

Trial by sample; assay; specimen.

* Hooker

If those principal works of God be but certain tastes and says , as if were, of that final benefit.

* Shakespeare

Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes.

Tried quality; temper; proof.

* Spenser

He found a sword of better say .

Essay; trial; attempt.

(Ben Jonson)

Statistics

Anagrams

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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.

#*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.
#* 2009 , (Hanif Kureishi), The Guardian , 24 Jan 2009:

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

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
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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 .

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
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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

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