Train vs Temper - What's the difference?

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between train and temper

is that train is (obsolete) a lure; a decoy while temper is (obsolete) to fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

As nouns the difference between train and temper

is that train is elongated portion or train can be (obsolete) treachery; deceit while temper is a tendency to be of a certain type of mood.

As verbs the difference between train and temper

is that train is to practice an ability while temper is to moderate or control.

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.

#*
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#* 2009 , (Hanif Kureishi), The Guardian , 24 Jan 2009:

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

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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 .

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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

* (l) English ergative verbs 1000 English basic words ----

temper
English
(wikipedia temper)
Alternative forms
* tempre (obsolete)
Noun
(en noun)
A tendency to be of a certain type of mood.

* , chapter=8
, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}
State of mind.

* 1719- (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)

The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.

the temper of mortar

(obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.

* Fuller

The exquisiteness of his [Christ's] bodily temper increased the exquisiteness of his torment.

The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.

Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.

to keep one's temper

* Alexander Pope

To fall with dignity, with temper rise.

* Ben Jonson

Restore yourselves to your tempers , fathers.

The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.

the temper of iron or steel

Middle state or course; mean; medium.

* Macaulay

The perfect lawgiver is a just temper between the mere man of theory, who can see nothing but general principles, and the mere man of business, who can see nothing but particular circumstances.

(sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.

Derived terms
* lose one's temper * short temper * short-tempered
Synonyms
* (tendency of mood) disposition
Coordinate terms
* (Heat treatment) quenching
Verb
(en verb)
To moderate or control.

Temper your language around children.

To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.

Tempering is a heat treatment technique applied to metals, alloys, and glass to achieve greater toughness by increasing the strength of materials and/or ductility. Tempering is performed by a controlled reheating of the work piece to a temperature below its lower eutectic critical temperature.

* Dryden

The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound.

To spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.

To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.

(music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.

(obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage.

* Spenser

With which the damned ghosts he governeth, / And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth .

(archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.

* 1610 , , act 3 scene 3

You fools! I and my fellows

Are ministers of fate: the elements

Of whom your swords are temper'd may as well

Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs

Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish

One dowle that's in my plume;

(archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.

* Bancroft

Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system.

* Otway

Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee / To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

* Byron

But thy fire / Shall be more tempered , and thy hope far higher.

* Addison

She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about her, that tempered the light into a thousand beautiful shades and colours.

(obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

* Bible, Wisdom xvi. 21

Thy sustenance serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man's liking.

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