entrain
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪn
Etymology 1
[circa 1560] From French entraîner.
Verb
entrain (third-person singular simple present entrains, present participle entraining, simple past and past participle entrained)
- To draw along as a current does.
- water entrained by steam
- (chemistry) To suspend small particles in the current of a fluid.
- 1963, W. D. Jamrack, Rare metal extraction by chemical engineering techniques:
- 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.
- (mathematics) To set up or propagate a signal, such as an oscillation.
- (figuratively) To encarriage, to conjoin, to link; as in a series of entities, elements, objects or processes.
- (neurobiology) To become trained or conditioned in a pattern of brain behavior.
- 2007, James R. Evans, Handbook of Neurofeedback: Dynamics and Clinical Applications, →ISBN:
- There are several neurofeedback-related approaches that make use of auditory and/or visual stimulation (AVS) to entrain or disentrain brain electrical activity.
- 2013, Simone Bassis, Anna Esposito, & Francesco Carlo Morabito, Recent Advances of Neural Network Models and Applications, →ISBN:
- 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).
Etymology 2
Verb
entrain (third-person singular simple present entrains, present participle entraining, simple past and past participle entrained)
- (poetic, intransitive) To get into or board a railway train.
- (transitive) To put aboard a railway train.
- to entrain a regiment
Antonyms
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From entraîner.
Pronunciation
Noun
entrain m (uncountable)
Further reading
- “entrain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Categories:
- Rhymes:English/eɪn
- English terms derived from French
- English lemmas
- English verbs
- en:Chemistry
- English terms with quotations
- en:Mathematics
- English terms prefixed with en-
- English poetic terms
- English intransitive verbs
- English transitive verbs
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French uncountable nouns
- French masculine nouns