Definitions for entrain

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entrain en·train

Spelling: [en-treyn]

IPA: /ɛnˈtreɪn/

Entrain is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 184 anagrams from letters in entrain (aeinnrt).

Definitions for entrain

verb (used with object)

1. to put aboard a train.
2. Chemistry. (of a substance, as a vapor) to carry along (a dissimilar substance, as drops of liquid) during a given process, as evaporation or distillation.
3. (of a liquid) to trap (bubbles).
4. Meteorology. to transfer (air) into an organized air current from the surrounding atmosphere (opposed to detrain).

verb (used without object)

1. to go aboard a train.

Origin of entrain

First recorded in 1880-85; en-¹ + train

Examples for entrain

And the next day the Division began to entrain for Bordeaux.

Our heavy baggage had arrived from Sokode, and all was ready to entrain.

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

That night they had to march seven miles to entrain for the railroad nearest to Ypres.

In reply to this the Russians were ordered to at once entrain.

Eventually, on the 8th, orders were received to entrain the next day.

"Let them entrain with our boys, sir," suggested the kindly Anzac major.

He found to his disappointment that only by returning to Madras could he entrain for Beypore.

The frills are now all over and it is get ready to entrain and cross over to France.

The bugle calls us to entrain, and the doors are thrown open.