to train, distraint, play the justices, fizzle, scotch

Trading Firm IPO Fizzles in Seconds 

The IPO of BATS Global Markets turned into a major debacle as a software glitch sent its shares plunging, leading it to scotch the IPO.

In Health Care Case, Lawyers Train for 3-Day Marathon

By ADAM LIPTAK

Practice sessions for the lawyers debating President Obama's health care law in Supreme Court arguments this week have stretched the supply of colleagues willing to play the justices.

Data Suggests Euro-Zone Recovery May Be Fizzling4

fizzle

Syllabification: (fiz·zle)

Pronunciation: /ˈfizəl/

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verb

[no object]

• end or fail in a weak or disappointing way:their threatened revolt fizzled out at yesterday’s meeting
• make a feeble hissing or spluttering sound:the strobe lights fizzled and flickered

noun

• a failure:in the end the fireworks were a fizzle
• a feeble hissing or spluttering sound:the electric fizzle of the waves

Origin:

late Middle English (in the sense 'break wind quietly'): probably imitative (compare with fizz), but perhaps related to Middle English fist (see feisty). Current senses date from the 19th century

 train

━━[動](他)

1 ［III[名]（[副]）］〈人・動物を〉しつける, …に（…を）仕込む((up/to ...))；［V[名]to do］…に（…するよう）教え込む. ⇒TEACH[類語]

train a child
子供をしつける

train the dog to fetch the newspaper
犬に新聞を取ってくるようしつける

train a person to the law
人に法律を仕込む.

2 ［V[名]as ［to be］[名]］〈人を〉（…になるよう）養成する；［III[名][副]］〈人・動物を〉（…の点で）訓練する, 熟達させる((in ...))

train a person as ［to be］ a doctor
人に医者となる訓練を授ける

be trained in nursing
看護法を教わる.

3 （競技会などに備えて）〈人の〉体調を整える, 体を鍛える, 慣らす((for ...))

train oneself for a race
レースに備えて体調を整える.

4 （望ましい形・位置・方向になるように）〈物を〉扱う, 処理する；〈植木を〉整枝する；〈つるを〉一定の方向にはわせる.

5 〈武器・カメラ・視線・努力などを〉（…に）向ける((on, upon ...))

train the shotgun on the deer
シカに銃を向ける.

6 ((まれ))〈重い物を〉引きずる.

7 ((古))〈人を〉そそのかす, 誘い込む((away)).

8 ((米略式))〈子供・犬などに〉用便をしつける.

━━(自)

1 （…の）訓練を受ける, 仕込まれる((for ...))；訓練する, 仕込む；訓練を受ける

train as ［to be］ a teacher ［＝train for teaching］
教師になるための教育を受ける.

2 （競技会などに備えて）練習する, 体を鍛える((for ...)).

3 ((略式))（…へ）列車で行く, 鉄道旅行をする((to ...)).

distraint	(noun) The seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim.
Synonyms:	distress
Usage:	Originally distraint was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage, but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien.

distrain
v. Law, -trained, -train·ing, -trains. v.tr.

1. To seize and hold (property) to compel payment or reparation, as of debts.
2. To seize the property of (a person) in order to compel payment of debts; distress.

v.intr.
To levy a distress.

[Middle English distreinen, from Old French destreindre, destreign-, from Medieval Latin distringere, distrinct-, from Latin, to hinder : dis-, apart; see dis- + stringere, to draw tight.]

distrainable dis·train'a·ble adj.
distrainment dis·train'ment n.
distrainor dis·trai'nor or dis·train'er n.
━━ vt. 【法】（動産を）差押える （seize）.
━━ vi. 差押える ((upon)).
dis・traint　━━ n. 差押え.

distraint
n. Law
The act or process of distraining; distress.

[From DISTRAIN (on the model of such pairs as constrain, constraint).]