Word Meanings - DETRAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train. London Graphic.
Related words: (words related to DETRAIN)
- 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.