String vs Train - What's the difference?
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(countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
* Prior
(uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.
(countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.
* Gibbon
(countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
(countable) A series of items or events.
(countable, computing) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
(music, countable) A stringed instrument.
(music, usually in plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
(in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collecively. (compare no strings attached)
(countable, physics) the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics
(slang) cannabis or marijuana
A miniature game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
The points made in a game of billiards.
A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
* Francis Bacon
A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
* Bible, Mark vii. 35
(shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
(botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
(mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
(architecture) A stringcourse.
To put (items) on a string.
To put strings on (something).
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.
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# 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.
#* 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.
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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).
* 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 mining terms the difference between string and train
is that string is a small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein while train is to trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.In transitive terms the difference between string and train
is that string is to put strings on (something) while train is to move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.string
English
Noun
- Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string .
- a violin string
- a bowstring
- a string''' of shells or beads; a '''string of sausages
- a string of islands
- The string of spittle dangling from his chin was most unattractive
- a string of successes
- no strings attached
- (Milton)
- Duckweed putteth forth a little string into the water, from the bottom.
- The string of his tongue was loosed.
- the strings of beans
- (Ure)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* score string * second stringSynonyms
* (long, thin structure): cord, rope, line * (this structure as a substance): cord, rope, twine * (anything long and thin): * (cohesive substance in the form of a string): * (series of items or events): sequence, series * (sequence of characters in computing): * (stringed instruments): string section the strings, or the string section * (conditions): conditions, provisosDescendants
* Portuguese:Verb
- You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.
- It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.
Synonyms
* (put on a string): thread * (put strings on): laceDerived terms
* cosmic string * heartstrings * string along * string band * string quartet * string up * string vest * stringyExternal links
* (wikipedia "string") * ----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.
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
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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 [...].
