Drain vs. Train — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Drain and Train
ADVERTISEMENT
Definitions
Drain
To draw off (a liquid) by a gradual process
Drained water from the sink.
Train
A train is a form of rail transport consisting of a series of connected vehicles that generally run along a railroad (or railway) track to transport passengers or cargo (also known as "freight" or "goods"). The word train comes from the Old French trahiner, derived from the Latin trahere meaning 'to pull, to draw'.Motive power for a train is provided by a separate locomotive or individual motors in a self-propelled multiple unit.
Drain
To cause liquid to go out from; empty
Drained the bathtub.
Drain the pond.
Train
Teach (a person or animal) a particular skill or type of behaviour through sustained practice and instruction
The scheme trains people for promotion
The dogs are trained to sniff out illegal stowaways
Drain
To draw off the surface water of
The Mississippi River drains a vast area.
ADVERTISEMENT
Train
Point or aim something, typically a gun or camera, at
The detective trained his gun on the side door
Drain
To drink all the contents of
Drained the cup.
Train
Go by train
Charles trained to London with Emma
Drain
To cause (a resource or supply of something) to be used up gradually and often completely.
Train
Entice (someone).
ADVERTISEMENT
Drain
To fatigue or spend emotionally or physically
The day's events drained me of energy.
Train
A series of connected railway carriages or wagons moved by a locomotive or by integral motors
A freight train
The journey took two hours by train
Drain
(Sports) To put (a ball or shot) into a hole or basket, as in golf or basketball
Drained the putt for a birdie.
Train
A number of vehicles or pack animals moving in a line
A camel train
Drain
To flow off or out
Gasoline drained slowly from the tilted can.
Train
A long piece of material attached to the back of a formal dress or robe that trails along the ground
The bride wore a cream silk dress with a train
Drain
To become empty by the drawing off of liquid
Watched the tub slowly drain.
Train
A trail of gunpowder for firing an explosive charge.
Drain
To discharge surface or excess water
The Niagara River drains into Lake Ontario. When flooded, the swamp drains northward.
Train
A series of connected railroad cars pulled or pushed by one or more locomotives.
Drain
To become gradually depleted; dwindle
Felt his enthusiasm draining.
Train
A long line of moving people, animals, or vehicles.
Drain
A pipe or channel by which liquid is drawn off.
Train
The personnel, vehicles, and equipment following and providing supplies and services to a combat unit.
Drain
(Medicine) A device, such as a tube, inserted into the opening of a wound or body cavity to facilitate discharge of fluid or purulent material.
Train
A part of a gown that trails behind the wearer.
Drain
The act or process of draining.
Train
A staff of people following in attendance; a retinue.
Drain
A gradual outflow or loss; consumption or depletion
The drain of young talent by emigration.
Train
An orderly succession of related events or thoughts; a sequence.
Drain
Something that causes a gradual loss
Interruptions that are a drain on my patience.
Train
A series of consequences wrought by an event; aftermath.
Drain
A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole UK
The drain in the kitchen sink is clogged.
Train
A set of linked mechanical parts
A train of gears.
Drain
An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
Train
A string of gunpowder that acts as a fuse for exploding a charge.
Drain
Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
That rental property is a drain on our finances.
Train
To coach in or accustom to a mode of behavior or performance.
Drain
(vulgar) An act of urination.
Train
To make proficient with specialized instruction and practice.
Drain
(electronics) One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
Train
To prepare physically, as with a regimen
Train athletes for track-and-field competition.
Drain
(pinball) An outhole.
Train
To cause (a plant or one's hair) to take a desired course or shape, as by manipulating.
Drain
A drink.
Train
To point or direct (a gun or camera, for example) at something.
Drain
(intransitive) To lose liquid.
The clogged sink drained slowly.
Train
To let drag behind; trail.
Drain
(intransitive) To flow gradually.
The water of low ground drains off.
Train
To give or undergo a course of training
Trained daily for the marathon.
Drain
To cause liquid to flow out of.
Please drain the sink. It's full of dirty water.
Train
To travel by railroad train.
Drain
To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.
Train
Elongated or trailing portion.
Drain
(transitive) To deplete of energy or resources.
The stress of this job is really draining me.
Train
The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
Unfortunately, the leading bridesmaid stepped on the bride's train as they were walking down the aisle.
Drain
(transitive) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
Train
A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.
Drain
To filter.
Train
The tail of a bird.
Drain
To fall off the bottom of the playfield.
Train
(obsolete) The tail of an animal in general.
Drain
To drink.
Train
(poetic) The elongated body or form of something narrow and winding, such as the course of a river or the body of a snake.
Drain
To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
Fountains drain the water from the ground adjacent.
But it was not alone that the he drained their treasure and hampered their industry.
Train
(astronomy) A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere or accompanying a comet as it nears the sun; tail.
Drain
To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie.
Sinking waters, the firm land to drain,Filled the capacious deep and formed the main.
Train
An animal's trail or track.
Drain
To filter.
Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh.
Train
Something dragged or laid along the ground to form a trail of scent or food along which to lure an animal.
Drain
To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.
Train
(obsolete) Gait or manner of running of a horse.
Drain
To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.
Train
Connected sequence of people or things.
Drain
The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country; the project is a drain on resources.
Train
A group of people following an important figure such as a king or noble; a retinue, a group of retainers.
Drain
That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.
Train
A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.
Our party formed a train at the funeral parlor before departing for the burial.
Drain
The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains.
Train
A group or class of people.
Drain
Emptying accomplished by draining
Train
(military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.
Drain
Tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material
Train
A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something.
Drain
A pipe through which liquid is carried away
Train
A set of things, events, or circumstances that follow after or as a consequence; aftermath, wake.
Drain
A gradual depletion of energy or resources;
A drain on resources
A drain of young talent by emmigration
Train
(obsolete) State of progress, status, situation (in phrases introduced by in a + adjective); also proper order or situation (introduced by in or in a alone).
In a fair / better / worse train
Drain
Flow off gradually;
The rain water drains into this big vat
Train
A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.
Drain
Deplete of resources;
The exercise class drains me of energy
Train
A series of electrical pulses.
Drain
Empty of liquid; drain the liquid from;
We drained the oil tank
Train
A series of specified vehicles (originally tramcars in a mine as usual, later especially railway carriages) coupled together.
Drain
Make weak;
Life in the camp drained him
Train
A mechanical (traditionally steam-powered, now typically diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track or path; a line of connected cars or carriages considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail or road travel.
The train will pull in at midday.
Train
A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
Train
(computing) A software release schedule.
Train
An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape.
Train
Treachery; deceit.
Train
A trick or stratagem.
Train
A trap for animals, a snare; (figuratively) a trap in general.
Train
A lure; a decoy.
Train
A live bird, handicapped or disabled in some way, provided for a young hawk to kill as training or enticement.
Train
(obsolete) train oil, whale oil.
Train
(intransitive) To practice an ability.
She trained seven hours a day to prepare for the Olympics.
Train
(transitive) To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
You can't train a pig to write poetry.
Train
(intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
I trained with weights all winter.
Train
(intransitive) To proceed in sequence.
Train
(transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
The assassin had trained his gun on the minister.
Train
To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
The vine had been trained over the pergola.
Train
To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
Train
To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
Train
To draw (something) along; to trail, to drag (something).
Train
To trail down or along the ground.
Train
To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
Train
To draw along; to trail; to drag.
In hollow cubeTraining his devilish enginery.
Train
To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
If but a dozen FrenchWere there in arms, they would be as a callTo 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.
Train
To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms.
Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation.
The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train.
Train
To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
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.
Train
To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head.
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory.
Train
To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company.
Train
To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.
Train
That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement.
Train
Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare.
With cunning trains him to entrap un wares.
Train
That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear.
Train
That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.
Train
A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite.
The king's daughter with a lovely train.
My train are men of choice and rarest parts.
Train
The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.
Train
A consecution or succession of connected things; a series.
The train of ills our love would draw behind it.
Rivers nowStream and perpetual draw their humid train.
Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order.
Train
The tail of a bird.
Train
Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement.
If things were once in this train, . . . our duty would take root in our nature.
Train
The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
Train
A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.
Train
A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad; - called also railroad train.
Train
A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.
Train
A roll train; as, a 12-inch train.
Train
The aggregation of men, animals, and vehicles which accompany an army or one of its subdivisions, and transport its baggage, ammunition, supplies, and reserve materials of all kinds.
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
A sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding;
A string of islands
Train of mourners
A train of thought
Train
A procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file;
We were part of a caravan of almost a thousand camels
They joined the wagon train for safety
Train
A series of consequences wrought by an event;
It led to a train of disasters
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
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
Train
Create by training and teaching;
The old master is training world-class violinists
We develop the leaders for the future
Train
Undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession;
She is training to be a teacher
He trained as a legal aid
Train
Train by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control;
Parents must discipline their children
Is this dog trained?
Train
Prepare (someone) for a future role or function;
He is grooming his son to become his successor
The prince was prepared to become King one day
They trained him to be a warrior
Train
Train to be discriminative in taste or judgment;
Cultivate your musical taste
Train your tastebuds
She is well schooled in poetry
Train
Aim or direct at; as of blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment;
Please don't aim at your little brother!
He trained his gun on the burglar
Don't train your camera on the women
Take a swipe at one's opponent
Train
Teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports;
He is training our Olympic team
She is coaching the crew
Train
Exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition;
She is training for the Olympics
Train
Train to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it;
Train the vine
Train
Travel by rail or train;
They railed from Rome to Venice
She trained to Hamburg
Train
Drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground;
The toddler was trailing his pants
She trained her long scarf behind her
