Battering train () A train of artillery for siege operations. |
Train (v. t.) To draw along |
Train (v. t.) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like |
Train (v. t.) To teach and form by practice |
Train (v. t.) To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen. |
Train (v. t.) To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier |
Train (v. t.) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head. |
Train (v. i.) To be drilled in military exercises |
Train (v. i.) To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest |
Train (v.) That which draws along |
Train (v.) Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk |
Train (v.) That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something |
Train (v.) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer. |
Train (v.) The after part of a gun carriage |
Train (v.) The tail of a bird. |
Train (v.) A number of followers |
Train (v.) A consecution or succession of connected things |
Train (v.) Regular method |
Train (v.) The number of beats of a watch in any certain time. |
Train (v.) A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like. |
Train (v.) A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad. |
Train (v.) A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like. |
Train (v.) A roll train |
Train oil () Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling. |
Up-train () A train going in the direction of the metropolis or the main terminus. |
Up-train () A train going in the direction conventionally called up. |
Wave (v. t.) See Waive. |
Wave (v. i.) To play loosely |
Wave (v. i.) To be moved to and fro as a signal. |
Wave (v. i.) To fluctuate |
Wave (v. t.) To move one way and the other |
Wave (v. t.) To raise into inequalities of surface |
Wave (v. t.) To move like a wave, or by floating |
Wave (v. t.) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand |
Wave (v. i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest |
Wave (v. i.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound |
Wave (v. i.) Water |
Wave (v. i.) Unevenness |
Wave (v. i.) A waving or undulating motion |
Wave (v. i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel. |
Wave (v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy |
Wave (n.) Woe. |
overshoot wave-off go-around | an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt |
wave | a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon, a wave of settlers, troops advancing in waves |
boat train | a train taking passengers to or from a port |
bullet train bullet | a high-speed passenger train |
car train | a train that transports passengers and their automobiles |
commuter commuter train | a passenger train that is ridden primarily by passengers who travel regularly from one place to another |
epicyclic train epicyclic gear train | a system of epicyclic gears in which at least one wheel axis itself revolves about another fixed axis |
freight liner liner train | a long-distance express freight train between industrial centers and seaports with facilities for rapid loading and unloading of goods |
freight train rattler | a railroad train consisting of freight cars |
full-wave rectifier | rectifier that converts the negative half wave of an alternating current into a positive half wave |
gearing gear geartrain power train train | wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed, the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain |
hospital train | a military train built to transport wounded troops to a hospital |
mail train | a train that carries mail |
passenger train | a train that carries passengers |
railway station railroad station railroad terminal train station train depot | terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods |
subway train | a train that runs in a subway system |
train railroad train | public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive, express trains don't stop at Princeton Junction |
train | piece of cloth forming the long back section of a gown that is drawn along the floor, the bride's train was carried by her two young nephews |
train set | a toy consisting of small models of railroad trains and the track for them to run on |
waveguide wave guide | a hollow metal conductor that provides a path to guide microwaves, used in radar |
duality wave-particle duality | (physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory |
wave | a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair |
finger wave | a wave made with the fingers |
permanent wave permanent perm | a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals |
train of thought thread | the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together, I couldn't follow his train of thought, he lost the thread of his argument |
wave theory undulatory theory wave theory of light | (physics) the theory that light is transmitted as waves |
wave mechanics | the modern form of quantum theory, an extension of quantum mechanics based on Schrodinger's equation, atomic events are explained as interactions between particle waves |
railroad ticket train ticket | a ticket good for a ride on a railroad train |
Schrodinger equation Schrodinger wave equation | the fundamental equation of wave mechanics |
wave equation | a differential equation that describes the passage of harmonic waves through a medium |
wave waving wafture | the act of signaling by a movement of the hand |
train | a series of consequences wrought by an event, it led to a train of disasters |
crime wave | a sudden rise in the crime rate |
gravity wave gravitation wave | (physics) a wave that is hypothesized to propagate gravity and to travel at the speed of light |
sine wave | a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curve |
wave undulation | (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth |
soliton soliton wave solitary wave | (physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance, does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate, soliton waves can travel long distances with little loss of energy or structure |
standing wave stationary wave | a wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with time |
traveling wave travelling wave | a wave in which the medium moves in the direction of propagation of the wave |
sound wave acoustic wave | (acoustics) a wave that transmits sound |
air wave | a sound wave that is transmitted via air |
wave form waveform wave shape | the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time |
shock wave blast wave | a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity, the explosion created a shock wave |
swell crestless wave | the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea |
tidal wave | a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun |
tidal wave | an unusual (and often destructive) rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide |
tidal wave | an overwhelming manifestation of some emotion or phenomenon, a tidal wave of nausea, the flood of letters hit him with the force of a tidal wave, a tidal wave of crime |
roller roll rolling wave | a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore |
wave moving ridge | one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) |
wave | something that rises rapidly, a wave of emotion swept over him, there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed, a wave of conservatism in the country led by the hard right |