Book vs Train - What's the difference?
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A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets.
A major division of a long work.
A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
The script of a musical.
(usually, in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
A long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book.
(legal) A colloquial reference to a book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
(whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
(poker slang) four of a kindWeisenberg, Michael (2000) [http://www.poker1.com/mcu/pokerdictionary/mculib_dictionary_info.asp The Official Dictionary of Poker]. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523
(sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
(sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
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To reserve (something) for future use.
To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
(law enforcement) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
(sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
(slang) To travel very fast.
To record bets as bookmaker.
(law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
(slang) To leave.
(bake)
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 :
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#* 2011 , Imogen Fox, The Guardian , 20 Apr 2011:
# A trail or line (of) something, especially gunpowder.
#* 1873 , (Charlotte Mary Yonge), Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for the little ones :
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Connected sequence of people or things.
# A group of people following an important figure, king etc.; a retinue, a group of retainers.
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#* 2009 , (Anne Easter Smith), The King's Grace :
# 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 :
#* 2012 , Rory Carroll, The Guardian , 18 Jun 2012:
# (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:
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, title= # 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.
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#* 2005 , Violet Blue, Best Women's Erotica 2006: Volume 2001 ,
#* 2010 , Diesel King, A Good Time in the Hood ,
To practice an ability.
To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise with discipline.
* Dryden
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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
(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).
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(obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
* Milton
(obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
* Shakespeare
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* Ford
(obsolete) Treachery; deceit.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:
(obsolete) A trick or stratagem.
(obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare.
(obsolete) A lure; a decoy.
As nouns the difference between book and train
is that book is book while train is elongated portion or train can be (obsolete) treachery; deceit.As a verb train is
to practice an ability.book
English
(wikipedia book)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . (cognates)Cognate with (etyl) (m), . The sense development of beech'' to ''book'' is explained by the fact that smooth gray beech bark was commonly used as bookfell.J.P. Mallory, ''Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture , s.v. "beech" (London: Fitroy-Dearborn, 1997), 58.Noun
(en noun)- She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.
- He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book .
- I have three copies of his first book .
- Genesis is the first book of the Bible.
- Many readers find the first book of ''A Tale of Two Cities'' to be confusing.
- I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.
- a book of stamps
- a book of raffle tickets
Synonyms
* (collection of sheets of paper bound together containing printed or written material) tome (especially a large book) * booklet * tome, volume * (script of a musical) libretto * (records of the accounts of a business) accounts, recordsDerived terms
* address book * audiobook * book account * book agent * book-answerer * book award * book-bearer * bookbinder * book-board * book-bosomed * book-bound * book-boy * book-burning * book canvasser * bookcase * book-cloth * book club * book concern * book-crab * book-credit * book-debt * book-edge gilder * book-edge marbler * book end, bookend * bookery * booketeria * book-farmer * book-folder * book-form * bookful * book-ghoul * book-gill * book hand * book-holder * bookhood * book-house * book-hunt * bookie * bookish * bookism * bookjacket * bookkeeper * bookkeeping * book-label * book-lare * book-law * book-lear * book-learned * book-learning * book-length * bookless * booklet * booklike * bookling * booklore * booklouse * book lung * bookly * bookmaker * bookmaking * bookman * bookmark, bookmarker * book match * book-mate * book-mindedness * book mite * bookmobile * book-muslin * book name * book-number * book-oath * book of first entry * book of original entry * Book of the Dead * book of the film * Book of God * book of lading * book of life * book of rates * book of reference * book of the living * book of words * book-packet * book piles * bookplate * book pocket * book-post * book-postage * book-press * book price * book prop * book-rate * book-read * bookrest * book-scorpion * bookseller * bookselling * bookshelf * bookshop * book-shy * booksie, booksy * book-slide * book-society * book-stack * bookstall * book-stamp * bookstand * bookstore * book support * booksy * book-table * book token * book trade * book-tray * book-trough * book type * book value * bookwards * book-ways * bookwise * bookwork * book-world * bookworm * book-wright * booky * bring to book * burn book * by the book * casebook * closed book * close the books * coffee-table book * comic book * cookbook * cookery book * cook the books * copybook * coursebook * e-book * exercise book * the Good Book * guidebook * handbook * hymn book * in anyone's book * in my book * in someone's bad books * in someone's good books * in the books * know like a book * logbook * make book * matchbook * notebook * off the books * on the books * open book * passbook * pension book * phrasebook * pocket-book, pocketbook * prayer book * ration book * reading book * read like a book * reference book * rough book * scrapbook * sketch book * songbook * storybook * suit one's book * take a leaf out of someone's book * talk like a book * textbook * throw the book at * without book * wordbook * workbook * yearbookSee also
* incunable * scroll * tome * volumeVerb
(en verb)- I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night
- I can book tickets for the concert next week.
- They booked that message from the hill
- The police booked him for driving too fast.
- He was really booking , until he passed the speed trap.
- The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.
- He was here earlier, but he booked .
Synonyms
* (to reserve) reserve * (to write down) make a note of, note down, record, write down * (to travel very fast) bomb (slang), hurtle, rocket (informal), speed, shoot, whiz (informal)Derived terms
* bookable * double-book * overbook * rebook * unbook * underbookEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(head)Statistics
*Anagrams
* (l) * (l)train
English
(wikipedia train)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . The verb was derived from the noun in Middle English.Noun
(en noun)- 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 [...].
- Lace sleeves, a demure neckline, a full skirt and a relatively modest train .
- 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.
- Sir, I invite your Highness and your train / To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest /For this one night
- 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 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.
- "Where was I?" he asked several times during the lunch, losing his train of thought.
- This winter we thought we'd go to Venice by train , for the adventure.
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- Then Swooney agreed, "Yeah, let's run a train up the fat cunt."
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- “You want us to run a train on you?”
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- 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 trainDescendants
* Irish: (l) * Welsh:Verb
(en verb)- The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train .
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- He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left.
- 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.
- In hollow cube / Training his devilish enginery.
- If but a dozen French / Were there in arms, they would be as a call / To train ten thousand English to their side.
- O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note.
- This feast, I'll gage my life, / Is but a plot to train you to your ruin.
Derived terms
* trainer * training * weight-train * weight trainingEtymology 2
From (etyl) traine, (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- In the meane time, through that false Ladies traine / He was surprisd, and buried under beare, / Ne ever to his worke returnd againe [...].