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entrain Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 to get on a train:
- On 2nd May we entrained for Dieppe.
- The night of the next day, we entrained.
1 to cause something to happen, or to be caused by something:
- September 11 entrained a kind of moral crash worldwide.
- The argument had entrained from an experiment that went horribly wrong.
2 to make something part of a liquid or flow of something and carry it along:
- A depression over Biscay entrained a blast of cold air to western areas.
- A spray of water droplets from the splash becomes entrained in the airflow.
3 to make something have the same pattern or rhythm as something else:
- Daily injections of melatonin given at 3.30 each afternoon entrained the rats to a 24 hour cycle.
- I believe that the harp has a particular influence on the nervous system so that we entrain to it more strongly than, say, the violin.

Every winter season he and Olive would entrain for the Saundersons homeland.
The next day we entrained for Hanover, where I gave a seminar.
She plays a widow who entrains a legal battle when her new neighbour orders her tree to be uprooted.
The Bolsheviks had entrained their ignoble withdrawal.
The formula gives a rough estimate of the amount of water that could have been entrained by this fireball.
Millions of tons of this entrained water sinks, circulating back down to the south along the sea bottom.
The music is to entrain the heart rate, blood pressure and respiration of the person in order to help calm them.
Melatonin has both a soporific effect and an ability to entrain the sleep-wake rhythm.