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verbɪnˈtreɪnɛnˈtreɪn [no object]formal Board a train. arriving in Bombay, they entrain and travel up the country Example sentencesExamples - I did distribute the brochures to about 20 people entraining, detraining, and meeting people at the station that day.
- So, on Saturday morning I entrained for Brighton.
- We entrained at the camp & came on to Alexandria & thence to the boat.
- I'm going to be getting up early tomorrow and entraining for deepest darkest Wales, where I will be spending an extended weekend with family.
- At Paddington, her wedding party entrains in a private saloon for the journey to Shropshire, enjoying ‘the low, rich purr of a Great Western express’ as far as Shrewsbury.
Synonyms be in time for, reach in time, make, get to
Rhymes abstain, appertain, arcane, arraign, ascertain, attain, Bahrain, bane, blain, brain, Braine, Cain, Caine, campaign, cane, cinquain, chain, champagne, champaign, Champlain, Charmaine, chicane, chow mein, cocaine, Coleraine, Coltrane, complain, constrain, contain, crane, Dane, deign, demesne, demi-mondaine, detain, disdain, domain, domaine, drain, Duane, Dwane, Elaine, entertain, explain, fain, fane, feign, gain, Germaine, germane, grain, humane, Hussein, inane, Jain, Jane, Jermaine, Kane, La Fontaine, lain, lane, legerdemain, Lorraine, main, Maine, maintain, mane, mise en scène, Montaigne, moraine, mundane, obtain, ordain, Paine, pane, pertain, plain, plane, Port-of-Spain, profane, rain, Raine, refrain, reign, rein, retain, romaine, sane, Seine, Shane, Sinn Fein, skein, slain, Spain, Spillane, sprain, stain, strain, sustain, swain, terrain, thane, train, twain, Ujjain, Ukraine, underlain, urbane, vain, vane, vein, Verlaine, vicereine, wain, wane, Wayne verbɪnˈtreɪnɛnˈtreɪn [with object]1(of a current or fluid) incorporate and sweep along in its flow. convection does not entrain liquids very far Example sentencesExamples - The increased turbulence entrains bedload within the water column and carries it to the mouthbar, where it is deposited.
- Volcanic activity is often so violent that it entrains (picks up) pieces of ‘country rock’, which are not of volcanic origin.
- So that would have told you at least one of or both contained entrained hydrocarbons?
- Both were occasionally high near the fishway, suggesting that reverse flow might entrain nutrients or phytoplankton.
- Researchers have found that it is possible to use the large capillary pressures that are developed by fluids that are entrained within aerogels to produce an efficient pump that requires no moving parts.
- 1.1formal Cause or bring about as a consequence.
the triumph of a revolution was measured in terms of the social revision it entrained Example sentencesExamples - It entrains more reticent givers and an expanding array of scholarships attracts the attention of students, recruiters, faculty and the envy of competing departments.
2Biology (of a rhythm or something which varies rhythmically) cause (another) gradually to fall into synchrony with it. electrical control is entrained throughout the stomach via adjacent muscle cells Example sentencesExamples - Furthermore, lung denervated lung transplant patients, unlike intact subjects, showed much difficulty in entraining their spontaneous rhythm to the mechanical ventilator during sleep.
- It acts as the body's principal circadian pacemaker, regulating and entraining daily rhythms of physiology and behavior.
- They provided a detailed account of how attentional rhythms are entrained by external rhythms.
- One of the characteristics of a circadian oscillator is that the rhythm can be entrained by environmental cues, e.g., changes in ambient light, temperature, and nutrient conditions.
- He demonstrated that melatonin synchronized and entrained circadian rhythms and developed a multiple-oscillator model of circadian organization that remains viable and important today.
Derivatives noun And when finishers sprinkle water on slabs during the finishing process, they cause air entrainments of 12 percent or more to be produced on slab surfaces. Example sentencesExamples - The geographical scale and rhythms of such postulated multi-species entrainments are likely to depend on the scale and rhythms of the weather pattern.
- Circadian entrainment is one of the areas of biology where mathematical predictions have been tested experimentally and confirmed.
- The many sophisticated experiments to study its physiology, entrainment, and the molecular mechanisms of feedback loops that exist in bacteria, as well as the clock-controlled genes are explored in detail.
- A cement mix consists of Portland cement, aggregates, water, and air entrainment.
Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense 'bring on as a consequence'): from French entraîner, from en- 'in' + traîner 'to drag'. nounɒ̃ˈtrãɒ̃ˈtrã mass nounrare Origin French, from the phrase être en train (de) 'be in the process (of), be in action'. verb [no object]formal Board a train. arriving in Bombay, they entrain and travel up the country Example sentencesExamples - I did distribute the brochures to about 20 people entraining, detraining, and meeting people at the station that day.
- We entrained at the camp & came on to Alexandria & thence to the boat.
- At Paddington, her wedding party entrains in a private saloon for the journey to Shropshire, enjoying ‘the low, rich purr of a Great Western express’ as far as Shrewsbury.
- I'm going to be getting up early tomorrow and entraining for deepest darkest Wales, where I will be spending an extended weekend with family.
- So, on Saturday morning I entrained for Brighton.
Synonyms be in time for, reach in time, make, get to
verb [with object]1(of a current or fluid) incorporate and sweep along in its flow. Example sentencesExamples - So that would have told you at least one of or both contained entrained hydrocarbons?
- Both were occasionally high near the fishway, suggesting that reverse flow might entrain nutrients or phytoplankton.
- Researchers have found that it is possible to use the large capillary pressures that are developed by fluids that are entrained within aerogels to produce an efficient pump that requires no moving parts.
- The increased turbulence entrains bedload within the water column and carries it to the mouthbar, where it is deposited.
- Volcanic activity is often so violent that it entrains (picks up) pieces of ‘country rock’, which are not of volcanic origin.
- 1.1formal Cause or bring about as a consequence.
the triumph of a revolution was measured in terms of the social revision it entrained Example sentencesExamples - It entrains more reticent givers and an expanding array of scholarships attracts the attention of students, recruiters, faculty and the envy of competing departments.
2Biology (of a rhythm or something which varies rhythmically) cause (another) gradually to fall into synchrony with it. electrical control is entrained throughout the stomach via adjacent muscle cells Example sentencesExamples - He demonstrated that melatonin synchronized and entrained circadian rhythms and developed a multiple-oscillator model of circadian organization that remains viable and important today.
- Furthermore, lung denervated lung transplant patients, unlike intact subjects, showed much difficulty in entraining their spontaneous rhythm to the mechanical ventilator during sleep.
- They provided a detailed account of how attentional rhythms are entrained by external rhythms.
- It acts as the body's principal circadian pacemaker, regulating and entraining daily rhythms of physiology and behavior.
- One of the characteristics of a circadian oscillator is that the rhythm can be entrained by environmental cues, e.g., changes in ambient light, temperature, and nutrient conditions.
- 2.1entrain tono object Fall gradually into synchrony with a rhythm or something that varies rhythmically.
Example sentencesExamples - Plant cells are uniquely entrained to extracellular and environmental cues that exhibit periodicity such as light, temperature, and water.
- Regeneration has been entrained to complete an asexual life cycle in fissiparous and comet-forming starfish.
- There is no need for any symbolic processing to interpret what one hears or so that one can generate a response that is tightly entrained to the actions of one's fellows.
- I mean, a TV definitely lets off radiation with a specific frequency, and I know I've read about brainwaves getting entrained to TV frequencies.
- Music is about blending pitches, entraining to rhythms.
Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘bring on as a consequence’): from French entraîner, from en- ‘in’ + traîner ‘to drag’. Origin French, from the phrase être en train (de) ‘be in the process (of), be in action’. |