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Entrain
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- 1 Spirit, liveliness, vivacity, drive. archaic, countable, transitive, uncountable
"[T]he greater number of reasonable people attributed the want of entrain and dullness of the whole thing to the presence of Monsignore ——."
- 1 To draw (something) along as a current does. transitive
"water entrained by steam"
- 2 To get into or board a railway train. intransitive, poetic, transitive
"There were two further unscheduled stops, one at a small station, Skalice, where a small party of tourists entrained, and at Břeclav, a junction and customs post on the Austrian frontier."
- 3 board a train wordnet
- 4 To suspend (small particles) in the current of a fluid. transitive
"In certain cases, it is possible to entrain enough of the solids continually in the effluent gas stream and then to disentrain them again away from the bed."
- 5 To put aboard a railway train. transitive
"to entrain a regiment"
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- 6 To set up or propagate (a signal), such as an oscillation. transitive
- 7 To conjoin, to link; as in a series of entities, elements, objects or processes. figuratively, transitive
- 8 To become trained or conditioned in (a pattern of brain behavior). transitive
"There are several neurofeedback-related approaches that make use of auditory and/or visual stimulation (AVS) to entrain or disentrain brain electrical activity."
- 9 To draw, induce, or bring about. literary, rare, transitive
"Thou muſt doe well, / Faith true obtaine: / Wit none repell, / Friend déere entraine."
Etymology
From Middle French entrainer (modern French entraîner /entrainer), from en- + trainer (“to pull, drag”).
From en- + train.
From French entrain, a deverbal from entraîner (“to charm, enthuse”) or a derivation from être en train (“to be in a good mood”).
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