Perhaps the most surprising thing about the word train is that there is an entirely unrelated English word train that most of us have never heard of. And it wasn't until the construction of the first railway in 1825 that the word train as we now most often use it really started to become established. Earliest known evidence of the word train referring to linked mining cars doesn't appear until a bit later. Generalized Anxiety Disorder GAD-related stress can cause racing thoughts to occur. Anxiety attacks commonly lead to racing thoughts. Anxiety attacks can also cause lightheadedness, which may make it harder to focus. The tracks these ran on were called train roads and trainways by the turn of the 19th century. Racing thoughts are often about health, symptoms, experiences, and worries over the future. But only sort of: the earliest modes of transportation that are recognized as railroads were built in European mines in the 16th century they used cars pulled on tracks by men or horses. It had to wait, of course, for the thing to be invented. It wasn't until a couple decades into the 19th century that the word began to be used with today's most common meaning. It entered the truly metaphorical realm to refer to an orderly succession, as in 'train of thought.' And the line of black powder that in cartoons leads an unfortunate character to a soon-to-explode cache of dynamite-the ' fuse' as it's more often called-also had the word train applied to it. Train also referred to a moving line of people or vehicles or animals, and from there to the particular vehicles and the like that provide various services to a combat unit. (It refers still, in fact, to tails, especially of peacocks and comets.) But from the clothing it seems next to have landed next as a reference to a group of people who follow behind an important person-they were like the clothing train, but on legs. If you assess them objectively, they are often not unrelated thoughts. It developed other meanings on the tail (or train, as it were) of the clothing one. Task-unrelated thought is also frequent in everyday life ( 11 ), as when a student becomes distracted during a lecture or while driving. The word train continued on its merry way through the centuries. The Anglo-French trainer meant 'to draw, drag.' Like most things fashion-related, it's French in origin: it comes from Middle French by way of Anglo-French, which is the French spoken in Medieval England after those Norman invaders settled in. The word train has been part of English since the 14th century-since its Middle English days. 'Train' comes from a French verb that meant 'to draw drag.' It originally referred to the part of a gown that trailed behind the wearer.

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