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Verb: entrain  en'treyn
  1. [formal] To board or travel by train
    "They entrained for London at dawn"
     
  2. (physics, chemistry) to draw along or incorporate particles, liquid, or gas in a flow
    "The wind entrains water droplets in the atmosphere"
     
  3. (biology) to synchronize a biological rhythm with an external cycle
    "Light helps entrain circadian rhythms"

Derived forms: entrained, entraining, entrains

Type of: board, get on, hop on

Encyclopedia: Entrain