Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive & transitive verb To leave or cause to leave a railroad train.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To remove from or cause to leave a railway train: said especially of bodies of men: as, to
detrain troops. - To quit a railway train: as, the volunteers detrained quickly and fell into line.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb engraving To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb rail transport, intransitive To
exit from atrain ; todisembark - verb rail transport, transitive to remove a passenger or passengers from a train; to
evacuate passengers from a train. - verb of an athlete to reduce one's
training , particularly during theoffseason , in preparation for a cycle ofretraining .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb leave a train
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word detrain.
Examples
-
All trains from Petit Houvin detrain at Belle Englise.
History 119th Infantry, 60th Brigade, 30th Division, U.S.A. Operations in Belgium and France, 1917-1 1918
-
Though Captain Putney returned to civilian life and had become a veterinarian in Los Angeles, he continued to advocate for change to the system, and three years before he died -- sixty years since he had trained the dogs in the first canine unit, the Senate pass as house bill that permits handlers to detrain and adopt their dogs when their military usefulness has ended October 24, 2000.
Kate Kelly: Memorial Day: Remembering All Who Have Served, Including Dogs in the Military Kate Kelly 2011
-
Though Captain Putney returned to civilian life and had become a veterinarian in Los Angeles, he continued to advocate for change to the system, and three years before he died -- sixty years since he had trained the dogs in the first canine unit, the Senate pass as house bill that permits handlers to detrain and adopt their dogs when their military usefulness has ended October 24, 2000.
Kate Kelly: Memorial Day: Remembering All Who Have Served, Including Dogs in the Military Kate Kelly 2011
-
Prior to the accident, the Pink train had been instructed to detrain all passengers at the TTC station and then to operate without passengers past the station and a switch to a point where the train could be backed through the track switch from the Epcot loop over to the Magic Kingdom loop.
NTSB releases preliminary statement on Monorail Accident | The Disney Blog 2009
-
At about the same time, the Purple train, which was inbound to the TTC station, was instructed to stop at the station to detrain passengers.
NTSB releases preliminary statement on Monorail Accident | The Disney Blog 2009
-
Above: A mother with a child in a stroller prepares to detrain.
-
Always board and detrain in a skirt and blouse or dress.
-
On any given day, about a thousand people detrain at Kamarkundu junction to work in Singur on jobs directly or indirectly related to farming.
Archive 2006-11-01 Abhay N 2006
-
On any given day, about a thousand people detrain at Kamarkundu junction to work in Singur on jobs directly or indirectly related to farming.
‘We will give blood, not our land’ - The battle for Singur has began Abhay N 2006
-
You detrain, walk across the bridge, go through a checkpoint, and climb on the next train.
Barbara Bush Barbara Bush 2005
Gammerstang commented on the word detrain
(verb) - Leave, or cause to leave, a train. Like deplane. Why not deboat also?
--Gilbert Tucker's American English, 1921
January 16, 2018