Definition of "entrain" in English

verb

1. To draw (something) 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 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).

6. (now literary and rare) To draw, induce, or bring about.

verb

1. (poetic, intransitive) To get into or board a railway train.

2. (transitive) To put aboard a railway train.

   • to entrain a regiment

noun

1. (now rare) Spirit, liveliness, vivacity, drive.