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View definitions for entrain

entrain

verb as in board

Strong matches

Weak match

verb as in embark

verb as in get on

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Some is entrained in permafrost at the poles, and more may have retreated underground, in aquifers where the water would be liquid at least for some parts of the Martian year.

From Time

So when we’re in sync, many of the rhythms of our brains and bodies entrain—heart and respiration rates, certain brain wave patterns.

Either way, the fact that the planet may be so heavily hydrated does not, alas, mean much for the possibility of Martian life, since the water molecules are entrained in the rocks and clay, not percolating in free-standing underground pools.

From Time

Those collisions provide the heat to convert hydroxyl molecules to water molecules, but those molecules are then entrained within microscopically small glass beads also created by the collisions.

From Time

There was a general rush to the stores after dinner, as we hear we are to entrain for Pretoria to-morrow.

Orders were received for the Regiment to entrain for Machadodorp for the purpose of garrisoning the railway blockhouses.

Perhaps some soldiers are going along to a place of meeting, where they expect to entrain for the front.

Nobody came to the hotel to inform them when the unit was to entrain.

The men, their kitbags already packed and their equipment on, rapidly began to entrain in the waiting troop trains.

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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to entrain, such as: catch, climb on, enter, get on, hop on, and emplane.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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