Entrain

Quick meaning: Entrain is a verb meaning To draw (something) along as a current does.

Meaning

To draw (something) along as a current does.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

water entrained by steam

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• entrains
• entraining
• entrained

Synonyms for entrain

Depending on context, synonyms include trail.

Antonyms for entrain

Common opposites include detrain.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trail, ascend, climb, rise, get, assemble.

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