train of thought
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftrainandthought
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train
noun
uk/treɪn/us/treɪn/
a railway engine connected to carriages for carrying people or to wheeled containers for ...
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thought
noun[C or U]
uk/θɔːt/us/θɑːt/
the act of thinking about or considering something, an idea or opinion, or a set of ideas about a ...
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(Definition oftrainandthoughtfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoftrain of thought
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There were few exceptions to laissez-faire in thistrainofthought.
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Mytrainofthoughtis sometimes under the direct control of my will.
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Dysexecutive syndrome patients may go off on tangents or lose theirtrainofthought.
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Plantinga does not definitely repudiate thistrainofthought.
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Another possibility linked with the abovetrainofthoughtis how the patients think others perceive them during their illness.
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This quality was united with singular persistence in brooding over atrainofthought, and following it out into all relevant details and ramifications.
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The red colouring thus becomes simply the conclusion of what was perceived as a logicaltrainofthought.
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Both of these also privileged the ideal over the practical, and started atrainofthoughtwhereby the ideal stood for theory.
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All the facts described in these examples cannot be seen from a static picture, but by using an interactive model, thetrainofthoughtpresented below becomes visible.
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Maintain a cohesivetrainofthought.
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Conversation was guided by a series of thirty questions following atrainofthought, designed to stimulate discussion.
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He warned that if the examiner simply followed the arguments of the inventors, he would become a prisoner of their logicaltrainofthought.
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Pursuing thistrainofthought, we switch our attention to the global, rather than local, characteristics of a striped architecture.
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I shall try to resume mytrainofthought.
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I should like to finish mytrainofthought.
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I hope that my question will not interrupt histrainofthought.
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I am glad to have the opportunity to continue mytrainofthought.
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I want to explain why thetrainofthoughtwhich we have just heard is wrong.
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But his remarks set going in my mind atrainofthought.
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