entrain

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Verb

entrain (entrains, present participle entraining; past and past participle entrained)

1. To draw along as a current does.

   water entrained by steam

2. (chemistry) To suspend small particles in the current of a fluid.
3. (mathematics) To set up or propagate a signal, such as an oscillation.
4. (figuratively) To encarriage, to conjoin, to link; as in a series of entities, elements, objects or processes.
5. (neurobiology) To become trained or conditioned in a pattern of brain behavior.

Verb

entrain (entrains, present participle entraining; past and past participle entrained)

1. (poetic, intransitive) To get into or board a railway train.
2. (transitive) To put aboard a railway train.

   to entrain a regiment

Antonyms

• detrain

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