What's the difference between train and twain?

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.

Twain


Definition:

  • (a. & n.) Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since his death on 21 April 1910, Twain's writings have reportedly inspired more commentary than those of any other American author and have been translated into at least 72 languages.
  • (2) Fortunately for us, perhaps more than any other writer Twain was his voice; the result, for all its frustrations, is a revelation.
  • (3) However tangential some of the early sections may be, there is also a great deal here to interest even the casual Twain reader.
  • (4) He begins his first-person narrative in words that echo the famous opening of Twain’s novel ( No 23 in this series ), a frank disavowal of “all that David Copperfield kind of crap”.
  • (5) Those who finish Huck Finn still doubting Twain's own racial attitudes should read Following the Equator or Pudd'nhead Wilson , in which Twain excoriates the "one-drop rule" (the American law decreeing that "one drop of negro blood" made a person black): "To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black out-voted the other fifteen parts and made her a 'negro'."
  • (6) The autobiography's many tender, grieving passages about Susy anticipate what Twain couldn't see coming: the death of another daughter, Jean, on Christmas Eve 1909.
  • (7) He served fleetingly as a Confederate soldier before deserting ("his career as a soldier was brief and inglorious," said the New York Times obituary; in the autobiography Twain includes a sympathetic account of deserting soldiers being shot, without revealing the reason for his sense of identification).
  • (8) To add to the intrigue, I think that weather will also play a huge part in this game - as Mark Twain said "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."
  • (9) I like the exact word, and clarity of statement, and here and there a touch of good grammar for picturesqueness" – structure was always a problem for Twain.
  • (10) Like Mark Twain, he was no respecter of the professional qualms of historians, and the one-liners continued to flow.
  • (11) Until it does so, reports of the death of the Washington consensus, like those about Mark Twain, will have been much exaggerated.
  • (12) Mark Twain once said: "Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit still."
  • (13) For many critics, the "non-fiction novel", as Capote was calling it, belonged to a tradition dating back to Daniel Defoe's The Storm (1704), in which Defoe used the voices of real people to tell his story, a tradition that boasted many exponents, among them Mark Twain, Dickens, Steinbeck, James Agee and Lillian Ross.
  • (14) "All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn … It's the best book we've had.
  • (15) Mark Twain, Melville, Bradbury, Steinbeck, Vonnegut; authors whose work is about something – that do the kind of writing I aspire to.” According to Smith, this year’s focus on comics “matters a great deal”.
  • (16) There is also a sofa based on the one that Darwin used while listening to his wife, Emma, reading extracts from popular novels, as well as a bookcase that includes a volume of Darwin’s favourite book, Mark Twain’s The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County .
  • (17) It became a residential hotel in 1905 and a celebrated retreat for musicians, painters and men of letters, including Mark Twain, William Burroughs and Tennessee Williams.
  • (18) Since 2001, Live Nation has organised Hyde Park events including Live 8 and concerts by high-profile acts such as Madonna, Bruce Springsteen , Bon Jovi and Shania Twain.
  • (19) To exclude American fiction and drama (no Twain, Steinbeck, or Miller, no Faulkner, no Fitzgerald, or TS Eliot) is – to deploy a literary critical term – plain bonkers.
  • (20) In the north, the choices are more literary (Mark Twain and Laura Ingalls Wilder both lived and wrote about life along the riverside).