Strainest vs Trainest - What's the difference?
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(archaic) (strain)
(obsolete) Treasure.
(obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
(archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
* Shakespeare
* Darwin
Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
* Tillotson
A tendency or disposition.
(literary) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style
(biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
(music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
(rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
* Dryden
(obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
* Dryden
To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
* Jonathan Swift
To tighten (the strings of a musical instrument); to uplift (one’s voice).
To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
To percolate; to be filtered.
To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
* Denham
* Shakespeare
To urge with importunity; to press.
* Shakespeare
The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 11, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
(label) The track of a deer.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 145:
(archaic) (train)
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 :
#
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
#* 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.
#*
, 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:
#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist)
, 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.
#* 1988 , X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (New York, N.Y.), Bomb: Issues 26-29 ,
#* 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
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= 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
(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 )
(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
* Shakespeare
* 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.
In archaic terms the difference between strainest and trainest
is that strainest is archaic second-person singular of strain while trainest is archaic second-person singular of train.strainest
English
Verb
(head)strain
English
(wikipedia strain)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), .Noun
(en noun)- He is of a noble strain .
- With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain , gives vigour and fertility to the offspring.
- There is a strain of madness in her family.
- Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which, propogated, spoil the strain of nation.
- They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain .
- the common strain
Quotations
* (English Citations of "strain")Etymology 2
From (etyl) estreindre (whence French .Verb
(en verb)- So hauing said, her twixt her armes twaine / She straightly straynd , and colled tenderly [...].
- Evander with a close embrace / Strained his departing friend.
- to strain''' a rope; to '''strain the shrouds of a ship
- Relations between the United States and Guatemala traditionally have been close, although at times strained by human rights and civil/military issues.
- The gale strained the timbers of the ship.
- Sitting in back, I strained to hear the speaker.
- To build his fortune I will strain a little.
- He sweats, / Strains his young nerves.
- They strain their warbling throats / To welcome in the spring.
- Thus my plight was evil indeed, for I had nothing now to burn to give me light, and knew that 'twas no use setting to grout till I could see to go about it. Moreover, the darkness was of that black kind that is never found beneath the open sky, no, not even on the darkest night, but lurks in close and covered places and strains the eyes in trying to see into it.
- to strain the law in order to convict an accused person
- There can be no other meaning in this expression, however some may pretend to strain it.
- water straining through a sandy soil
- He talks and plays with Fatima, but his mirth / Is forced and strained .
- The quality of mercy is not strained .
- to strain a petition or invitation
- Note, if your lady strain his entertainment.
Noun
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Liverpool 3-0 Man City, passage=Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.}}
- When they have shot a Deere by land, they follow him like bloud-hounds by the bloud, and straine , and oftentimes so take them.
trainest
English
Verb
(head)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 [...].