entrained; entraining; entrains
1
: to draw along with or after oneself
2
: to draw in and transport (something, such as solid particles or gas) by the flow of a fluid
3
: to incorporate (air bubbles) into concrete
4
: to determine or modify the phase or period of
circadian rhythms entrained by a light cycle
entrainer
noun
entrained; entraining; entrains
: to put aboard a train
: to go aboard a train
Examples of entrain in a Sentence
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Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
About half of the emissions are taken up by the land and the oceans, which act as carbon sinks, entraining the greenhouse gas and preventing it from accelerating climate change even further.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 June 2023
At the core of Team Lichen’s technology is a paint innovation company, Reactive Surfaces, out of Austin, Texas, that for the past couple of decades, has been entraining biologicals into paints and coatings to derive various functionalities, such as antimicrobial or self-cleaning surfaces.
—Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
On May 20, the smoke, arising from wildfires in Alberta, was entrained by a large low-pressure system swirling counterclockwise over Canada and the United States.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2023
Although the timing of subordinates' predawn crowing was strongly dependent on that of the top-ranking rooster, free-running periods of body temperature rhythms differed among individuals, and crowing rhythm did not entrain to a crowing sound stimulus.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2017
External cues, primarily light, but also heat and a few other things, work to entrain, or synchronize, our circadian rhythms throughout the day.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2021
The counterclockwise-spinning low is entraining a filament of rich air from the Central Pacific thousands of miles to the southwest.
—Scott Dance, Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
The spacecraft’s body itself is small in stature, only about the height of an adult human, but its mission is a grand one: to explore two clusters of asteroids entrained by Jupiter’s gravity, relics untouched since the dawn of the solar system.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2023
Verb
When thunderstorms blossom, their updrafts can vertically entrain and stretch any nascent low-level swirl, helping to establish a more cohesive center of circulation.
—Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
About half of the emissions are taken up by the land and the oceans, which act as carbon sinks, entraining the greenhouse gas and preventing it from accelerating climate change even further.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 June 2023
At the core of Team Lichen’s technology is a paint innovation company, Reactive Surfaces, out of Austin, Texas, that for the past couple of decades, has been entraining biologicals into paints and coatings to derive various functionalities, such as antimicrobial or self-cleaning surfaces.
—Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
On May 20, the smoke, arising from wildfires in Alberta, was entrained by a large low-pressure system swirling counterclockwise over Canada and the United States.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2023
Although the timing of subordinates' predawn crowing was strongly dependent on that of the top-ranking rooster, free-running periods of body temperature rhythms differed among individuals, and crowing rhythm did not entrain to a crowing sound stimulus.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2017
External cues, primarily light, but also heat and a few other things, work to entrain, or synchronize, our circadian rhythms throughout the day.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2021
The counterclockwise-spinning low is entraining a filament of rich air from the Central Pacific thousands of miles to the southwest.
—Scott Dance, Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
The spacecraft’s body itself is small in stature, only about the height of an adult human, but its mission is a grand one: to explore two clusters of asteroids entrained by Jupiter’s gravity, relics untouched since the dawn of the solar system.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2023
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entrain
transitive verb
en·train
in-ˈtrān 
: to determine or modify the phase or period of
circadian rhythms entrained by a light cycle
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