ENTRAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entrain mean? 

• ENTRAIN (verb)
  The verb ENTRAIN has 1 sense:

1. board a train

  Familiarity information: ENTRAIN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTRAIN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they entrain    ... he / she / it entrains   
Past simple: entrained   
Past participle: entrained   
-ing form: entraining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Board a train

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "entrain" is one way to...):

board; get on (get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Organisms from flies to humans have daily circadian rhythms entrained with the 24-hour cycle of day and night that regulate many physiological systems.

(Circadian Rhythm Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The authors postulate that frontal entrainment may be stronger in the fluent signers because they are more able to predict the movements involved and therefore more able to predict and entrain to the rhythms they see.

(The Rhythms of Sign Language, NSF)