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What is the difference between caravan and train?

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As nouns the difference between caravan and train

is that caravan is a convoy or procession of travelers, their vehicles and cargo, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert while train is elongated portion or train can be (obsolete) treachery; deceit.

As verbs the difference between caravan and train

is that caravan is to travel in a caravan (procession) while train is to practice an ability.

caravan

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A convoy or procession of travelers, their vehicles and cargo, and any pack animals, especially camels crossing a desert.
  • * 1846 , ,
  • To the left the caravan animals, securely picketed, at regular distances of some fifteen yards apart, occupied an area of several acres.
  • * 1888 , ,
  • “Would they could have foretold that my caravan would have been cut up by the Shinwaris almost within shadow of the Pass!” grunted the Eusufzai agent of a Rajputana trading-house whose goods had been feloniously diverted into the hands of other robbers just across the Border, and whose misfortunes were the laughing-stock of the bazar. “Ohé, priest, whence come you and whither do you go?”
  • * 1897 , , Chapter 21,
  • Camel caravans , and courageous teamsters opened regular carrying businesses between Southern Cross and Coolgardie, while coaches began to run over the desert.
  • (UK, Australia, NZ) A furnished vehicle towed behind a car, etc., and used as a dwelling when stationary.
  • * 2006 , Roger Cross, Avon Hudson, Beyond Belief: The British Bomb Tests: Australia's Veterans Speak Out , page 92,
  • The caravans' were the demarcation between the non-radioactive areas and the radioactive areas. There were two main '''caravans''', one for people going into the forward area, and the other ' caravan was for people returning.
  • * 2009 , Chris Cleave, Incendiary , unnumbered page,
  • The best thing about caravans' is that they're always exactly the same, said Terence Butcher. You can tow your ' caravan to Brighton or Bournemouth or Bognor. Doesn?t make the blindest bit of difference. When you close the door behind you at the end of the day you?re home.
  • * 2010 , Jo Nesbo, Nemesis , page 357,
  • At the end of the car park were three caravans .

    Derived terms

    * caravan park, caravan site * caravaneer

    Synonyms

    * (convoy or procession of travelers) camel train, convoy, wagon train * (furnished vehicle used as a dwelling) (US): camper, mobile home, motor home, recreational vehicle, trailer, travel trailer

    Verb

  • To travel in a caravan (procession).
  • The wedding party got in their cars and caravaned from the chapel to the reception hall.
  • * 1957 , , Journal of the Assembly, Legislature of the State of California , Volume 1, page 92,
  • The provisions of the Vehicle Code covering caravaning of vehicles have been clarified to expedite this type of operation and still result in the proper observance of the objectives of that law.
  • * 1984 , Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Information Retrieval Limited, Animal Behaviour Abstracts , Volume 12, page 73,
  • Observations of caravaning were made on the domesticated musk shrew (Suncus murinus ) with particular reference to its developmental aspects.
  • * 2007 , Stanley Bennett Clay, Looker , page 89,
  • Brando, Dee, Omar, Jeanette, and Clymenthia caravanned up to the La Brea summit and down Overhill Drive, just past Slauson Avenue, to La Louisianne for drinks and a late-night snack.
  • (UK, Australia) To travel and/or live in a caravan (vehicle).
  • When my parents retired they really got back into caravanning .
  • * 1932', Walter Meade, '''''Caravanning'' , Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, ''The Cecil Aldin Book , page 55,
  • It has to be remembered that, however enchanting the idea of caravanning may be, it is unlikely that it will consist entirely of watching sunsets and other people working — two of the most fascinating sights I know — but there are, regrettably enough, other and less romantic elements.
  • * 1986 , James Wilson Brown, Shirley N. Brown, Before You Go To Great Britain: A Resource Directory and Planning Guide , page 94,
  • British interest in camping and caravaning has recently increased considerably — so much so that today, camp parks are available in all parts of the country.
  • * 2002 , Don Loffler, The FJ Holden: A Favourite Australian Car , page 181,
  • Norm writes, ‘My wife and I did a lot of caravaning and it certainly didn?t pull the car out of shape, although lots of people thought it would!’

    Derived terms

    * caravanner

    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
  • , page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) , title= Ideas coming down the track , passage=A “moving platform” scheme
  • # 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)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}
  • 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.