entrain

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  1. transitive verb To pull or draw along after itself.
  2. transitive verb Chemistry To carry (suspended particles, for example) along in a current.
  3. intransitive verb To go aboard a train.
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  • Hatzfeldt led the conversation to some evenings when Strauss played his waltzes with an entrain, a sentiment that no one else has ever attained, and to Offenbach and his melodies—one evening particularly when he had improvised a song for the Empress—he couldn't quite remember it. —  My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879
  • Mind machines allow their users to set up sound and light patterns which brain waves will assume (entrain) (see figure 1). —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • The frequency following response means that the brain waves naturally entrain or follow the rhythmic pattern of signals entering from the senses. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • The effect is to "entrain" your brainwaves, meaning they begin to follow the beats. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • We take this capacity to "entrain" to an evenly paced stimulus —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. French entrainer, from Old French : en-, in; see en-1 + trainer, to drag; see train.

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  1. from French entraíner, from en-+ traíner, train: see train.
  2. en- + train.
 

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/ɛnˈtreɪn/
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