💧 To carry along 🤝 To involve 🧠 To synchronize

to entrain

1 9.1

To involve people in a process or activity

verb
/ɪnˈtreɪn/

: involucrar

Environmentally, each moment of inaction further entrains irreversible trends, such as the global extinction of biodiversity and alteration.

And that becomes entrained in a certain sense.

Examples

And that becomes entrained in a certain sense.

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When summarizing the importance of Condon's research, Hall writes: "If you can't entrain with yourself, it is impossible to entrain with others, and if you can't entrain, you can't relate" (167).

Academic text (2000)
Further, the groups were entrained to work together and represented natural groups.

Academic text (2000)
The problem is one of how long it takes for a group to become entrained.

Academic text (2000)
Communication is the essential manifestation of feedback that helps entrain and provides the

Blog text (4)
They sure entrained a lot of politicians and press.

Blog text (22)
As a group works together, it becomes entrained—a synchronization of behaviors within the group that leads to the achievement of a systematic approach to group problem resolution.

Academic text (2000)
When summarizing the importance of Condon's research, Hall writes: "If you can't entrain with yourself, it is impossible to entrain with others, and if you can't entrain, you can't relate" (167).

Academic text (2000)
When summarizing the importance of Condon's research, Hall writes: "If you can't entrain with yourself, it is impossible to entrain with others, and if you can't entrain, you can't relate" (167).

Academic text (2000)
The teacher wanted to entrain the students in a collaborative project to enhance their teamwork skills.

Synonyms

to engage

vsto entrain

676 3.4

To take part in an activity

brings others into participation or aligns them with the activity

to immerse

vsto entrain

59 4.8

Make someone fully involved in an activity or interest

involves others without implying total absorption

Antonyms

to exclude

338 3.0

To keep someone or something out so they are not part of something

to isolate

256 4.2

To keep someone or something apart from others

How Involved

to absorb

112 3.1

to engage

117 3.5

to entrain

1 9.1

to involve

∞ 1.8

to include

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

entrain infinitive

entrained past

entrained past participle

entraining present participle

entrains third person singular

Morphology

entrain = train (semi-transparent) = en + train

Formally analyzable as en- + train ('pull along'), but the sense 'involve/bring into participation' is a generalized extension not immediately inferable to an average B1 learner.

Etymology

Entrain comes from French parts en- 'in' and train 'to pull', the same root as tractor. So to entrain people into a process is to 'pull them in' or bring them along into it.