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Word Meanings - DETRAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train. London Graphic.

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  • CAUSEFUL
    Having a cause.
  • LONDONISM
    A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.
  • CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
    Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
  • TRAINING
    The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
  • TRAINABLE
    Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
  • LONDONIZE
    To impart to a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.
  • GRAPHICNESS; GRAPHICALNESS
    The quality or state of being graphic.
  • LONDON
    The capital city of England. London paste , a paste made of caustic soda and unslacked lime; -- used as a caustic to destroy tumors and other morbid enlargements. -- London pride. A garden name for Saxifraga umbrosa, a hardy perennial
  • GRAPHIC; GRAPHICAL
    1. Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing. 2. Of or pertaining to the art of writing. 3. Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines. The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical, or composed of
  • LONDONER
    A native or inhabitant of London. Shak.
  • TRAINER
    1. One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength. 2. A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. Bartlett.
  • TRAIN DISPATCHER
    An official who gives the orders on a railroad as to the running of trains and their right of way.
  • GRAPHICALLY
    In a graphic manner; vividly.
  • TRAINBEARER
    One who holds up a train, as of a robe.
  • CAUSERIE
    Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
  • TRAIN
    To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees. He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left. Jeffrey. (more info) 1. To draw along;
  • CAUSER
    One who or that which causes.
  • TRAINY
    Belonging to train oil. Gay.
  • ALIGHT
    Goth. us-, G. er-, orig. meaning out) + lihtan, to alight, orig. to render light, to remove a burden from, fr. liht, leoht, light. See 1. To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount. 2. To descend
  • CAUSELESS
    1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.
  • PETROGRAPHIC; PETROGRAPHICAL
    Pertaining to petrography.
  • STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
    Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
  • PENTAGRAPHIC; PENTAGRAPHICAL
    Pantographic. See Pantograph.
  • PHOTOGRAPHIC; PHOTOGRAPHICAL
    Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically
  • STRAINABLE
    1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
  • PHYTOGRAPHICAL
    Of or pertaining to phytography.
  • STEREOGRAPHICALLY
    In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
  • RESTRAINABLE
    Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
  • EPIGRAPHIC; EPIGRAPHICAL
    Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.
  • HETEROGRAPHIC
    Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; -- said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic.
  • DISTRAINER
    See DISTRAINOR
  • HALF-STRAINED
    Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
  • HYDROGRAPHIC; HYDROGRAPHICAL
    Of or relating to hydrography.
  • PHONOGRAPHICALLY
    In a phonographic manner; by means of phonograph.
  • GLOSSOGRAPHICAL
    Of or pertaining to glossography.
  • UPTRAIN
    To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.
  • CORRIDOR TRAIN
    A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.

 

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