Meaning

To draw (something) along as a current does..

Definitions by Sense

1. To draw (something) along as a current does.
2. (chemistry) To suspend (small particles) in the current of a fluid.
3. (mathematics) To set up or propagate (a signal), such as an oscillation.
4. (figuratively) To conjoin, to link; as in a series of entities, elements, objects or processes.
5. (neurobiology) To become trained or conditioned in (a pattern of brain behavior).
6. (now literary and rare) To draw, induce, or bring about.
7. (poetic, intransitive) To get into or board a railway train.
8. (transitive) To put aboard a railway train.

Example Sentences

water entrained by steam

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.

There are several neurofeedback-related approaches that make use of auditory and/or visual stimulation (AVS) to entrain or disentrain brain electrical activity.

Hence, interestingly, a speaker (VR) might disentrain in no-frequency but entrain in the frequency of a particular discourse function; we also have a speaker with the opposite pattern (DF).

Thou muſt doe well, / Faith true obtaine: / Wit none repell, / Friend déere entraine.

That infancie looketh forward, and age backward; was it not that which lanus his double viſage ſignifide? yeares entraine me if they pleaſe; but backward.

It is not the gawdy luſtre of the Purple, but the inward vertue of the Perſon, that proclaims Greatneſs; having alwayes obſerved you to entrain Humility and Integrity for your Retainers.

The Stomach (like an Aged Maid, / Shrunk up, for want of human aid) / The Common Debt of Nature paid, / And with it’s Deſtiny entrain’d their Fate.

Word Forms

• entrains
• entraining
• entrained

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