entrain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: entrains
form: entraining
form: entrained
form: entrained
Etymology: From Middle French entrainer (modern French entraîner /entrainer), from en- + trainer (“to pull, drag”).
Senses: examples: water entrained by steam
glosses: To draw (something) along as a current does.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1963, W. D. Jamrack, Rare metal extraction by chemical engineering techniques:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To suspend (small particles) in the current of a fluid.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To set up or propagate (a signal), such as an oscillation.
glosses: To conjoin, to link; as in a series of entities, elements, objects or processes.
examples: text: There are several neurofeedback-related approaches that make use of auditory and/or visual stimulation (AVS) to entrain or disentrain brain electrical activity.
ref: 2007, James R. Evans, Handbook of Neurofeedback: Dynamics and Clinical Applications, →ISBN:
text: 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).
ref: 2013, Simone Bassis, Anna Esposito, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Recent Advances of Neural Network Models and Applications, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
neurobiology
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: To become trained or conditioned in (a pattern of brain behavior).
examples: text: Thou muſt doe well, / Faith true obtaine: / Wit none repell, / Friend déere entraine.
ref: 1568, Thomas Howell, “Of Counsaile”, in The Arbor of Amitie, Wherin Is Comprised Pleasant Poëms and Pretie Poesies, […], London: […] Henry Denham, […], →OCLC, folio 11, verso:
text: 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.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Vpon Some Verses of Virgill”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book III, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 505:
text: 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.
ref: 1656 September 18 (Gregorian calendar), Richard Tomlinson, “To His Honoured, Learned, and Vertuous Friend, William Witheings Esq.”, in Joannes Renodæus [i.e., Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, The Pharmaceutrical^([sic]) Shop, […] (A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: […]), London: […] J[ohn] Streater, and J[ames] Cottrel, published 1657, →OCLC, signature Nnn2, verso (page [476]):
text: 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.
ref: 1697, [John Vanbrugh], “[Part I]”, in Æsop. A Comedy. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Richard Wellington, […], published 1702, →OCLC, Act II, page 15:
text: I was my own boss and I had my own hours, but unlike other bosses I entrained only my own ruin, my own bankruptcy.
ref: 1939, Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn, Paris: The Obelisk Press Books; Les Éditions du Chêne […], published 3 June 1948, →OCLC, page 18:
text: If the world survives, this war will surely be taught as a textbook case of a colossal military blunder entrained by deceit and self-deception.
ref: 2011 October 25, Robert Trivers, “The 2003 US War on Iraq”, in The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, →ISBN, chapter 11 (Self-Deception and War), page 257:
glosses: To draw, induce, or bring about.
Derived terms: disentrain
entrainable
entrainer
entrainment
photoentrain
reentrain
reentrained
unentrained