What's the difference between train and tram?

Train


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
  • (v. t.) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head.
  • (v. i.) To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company.
  • (v. i.) To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.
  • (v.) That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement.
  • (v.) Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare.
  • (v.) That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear.
  • (v.) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.
  • (v.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.
  • (v.) The tail of a bird.
  • (v.) A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite.
  • (v.) A consecution or succession of connected things; a series.
  • (v.) Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement.
  • (v.) The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
  • (v.) A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.
  • (v.) A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad.
  • (v.) A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.
  • (v.) A roll train; as, a 12-inch train.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
  • (2) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
  • (3) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
  • (4) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
  • (5) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
  • (6) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
  • (7) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
  • (8) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
  • (9) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
  • (10) Consequently, the present data indicate that training-induced changes in the CS-evoked activity of PFCm cells are significantly related to aversively conditioned bradycardia in rabbits.
  • (11) Thus, brain NE levels after training were not predictive of retention performance in amygdala-implanted or -stimulated animals.
  • (12) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
  • (13) Before training, SV at VO2max was 9% lower than during exercise at 50% VO2max (P less than 0.05).
  • (14) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
  • (15) Participants were selected from existing classes forming a weight training, aerobic exercise and activity control group.
  • (16) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
  • (17) Little difference exists between the proportion of programs that offer training in first-trimester techniques and the proportion that train in second-trimester techniques.
  • (18) There was no significant correlation between mitochondrial volume and number of SO fibers following endurance exercise training.
  • (19) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
  • (20) Neuromuscular transmission was measured using "train-of-four" stimulation.

Tram


Definition:

  • (n.) A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore.
  • (n.) The shaft of a cart.
  • (n.) One of the rails of a tramway.
  • (n.) A car on a horse railroad.
  • (n.) A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We conclude that although the tissue expansion technique yields acceptable results, the TRAM flap yields superior aesthetic results in terms of both appearance and consistency.
  • (2) The most commonly used techniques, in our institution, are tissue expansion, use of the latissimus dorsi flap, and use of the transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap.
  • (3) Both the TraM* and TraM' proteins were found to bind specifically to a broad region preceding the traM gene.
  • (4) This is true not only for TRAM and latissimus dorsi flaps, but also for the mastectomy flap necrosis sometimes encountered in immediate reconstruction with simple implants or tissue expanders.
  • (5) The fertility control gene finP, the transfer gene traM, and the transfer origin, oriT, of plasmid R100 were isolated on a single 1.2-kilobase EcoRV fragment and were then subcloned as HaeIII fragments.
  • (6) Before leaving for Afghanistan, Dahmane was a regular at an Islamic Centre in Molenbeek and met Malika el-Aroud, who later became his wife, at a tram stop in the city.
  • (7) How to buy tickets for a train or a tram, why we shouldn’t eat in the street or talk loudly on our cell phones, how we must talk to women … I want to stay here; it’s important to understand.” Like nearly 5,000 fellow asylum seekers in Vienna, Wafa lives in a large emergency refugee shelter and is awaiting a move to longer-term accommodation either in Vienna or elsewhere in Austria.
  • (8) Among these findings, tram-tracking of the optic nerve sheath complex is rare.
  • (9) Most major cities sell travel cards valid for multiple journeys or a specific number of days that can be used across buses, trams and metros and result in small savings that really add up.
  • (10) Until now, application of a TRAM free flap, however, has only taken place in special circumstances.
  • (11) The complication rate was equal for both groups (24%) with infection being most common in the group of patients with tissue expansion and partial flap necrosis being most common in the group of patients with TRAM flaps.
  • (12) Two reconstructive techniques were used, that is, either tissue expansion with secondary prosthesis implantation (60%) or transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap (40%).
  • (13) The mayor said from September 2018, an electric tram-bus – nicknamed the “Olympic tramway” in honour of Paris’s bid for the 2024 Games – would run next to part of the upper highways along the Seine in both directions.
  • (14) In this population, being a bus or tram driver was an independent predictor of CHD of considerable magnitude.
  • (15) Of the 7 of 20 (35 percent) free TRAM flap patients who required post-operative chemotherapy, only 1 of 7 (14 percent) was delayed because of TRAM flap complications.
  • (16) By hybridizing the IncFVII haemolytic plasmid pSU233 with a probe containing the origin of transfer of the IncFII plasmid R1, we isolated a 1.9 kb BglII fragment containing at least the origin of transfer (oriT), and the genes traM and finP.
  • (17) The characteristic findings of diffuse panbronchiolitis are diffuse small nodular shadows, overinflation and tram-lines.
  • (18) With crime falling and public transport improving, especially with the new tram networks, people want to live in urban areas like never before.
  • (19) He demonstrates a case of bilateral reconstruction of the breasts by means of a TRAM flap.
  • (20) The possible roles of the traI and traM products in conjugation are discussed.