entrainment

entrainment noun: enthusiasm, liveliness; impulsiveness.

Noun (1)

entrainment (countable and uncountable, plural entrainments)

(archaic) Enthusiasm, liveliness; impulsiveness.
- Carlo Antonio Bertinazzi, he whom the French stage knows under the name of Carlin, was the gayest of all comedians; he knew a thousand ways of amusing his audience, and would make them die with pleasure and laughter by his affecting performance of the Vingt-six infortunes d’ Arlequin; the...1841 May 26, “Hay-Market Theatre”, in The Theatrical Observer; and Daily Bills of the Play, number 6060, London: E[dward] & J[ohn] Thomas, […], →OCLC, front page
- A philosopher, through indolence and carelessness before the Revolution, superstitious afterwards, through weakness and entrainment [translating entraînement], he threatened the Revolution with his sword from a distance.1847, Alphonse de Lamartine, translated by H[enry] T[homas] Ryde, History of the Girondists; or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution. […], volume I, London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn...
The carrying away of droplets of liquid during violent boiling.
The movement of sediment in a stream of water or in a glacier.
The mixing of air currents.
The mixing of out flowing river water and underlying seawater.
The alignment of an organism's circadian rhythm to an external rhythm in its environment.

entrainment (countable and uncountable, plural entrainments)

The act of someone or something boarding or being put aboard a train.
- An experienced officer will be placed in charge at each station which is to be used for the entrainment of volunteers near Windsor and at the Waterloo and Paddington Termini in London.1881 July 9, “The Present and Previous Volunteer Movements. An Historical Sketch.”, in Western Mail, number 3795, Cardiff, →OCLC, page 3, column 7
- The experimental line at Chatham is invaluable in practising entrainments, so that the work shall be performed in the shortest possible time.1899 August, Marcus Tindal, “‘Sappers of the Queen.’ Some Account of the Work of the Royal Engineer Corps.”, in Pearson’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 44, London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., […], →OCLC...

സഹവഹനം

At page 60, and elsewhere, the English general is only spoken of as a mere nobody, carried away resistlessly by the “entrainments” [translating entraînements] around him.1863 March, “Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea”, in William Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New Monthly Magazine, volume CXXVII, number...
The reviewer had to recognize [Thomas Babington] Macaulay’s talents; the entrainment of his picturesque, vivid, and pregnant execution could not be escaped.1925 October, Walter Graham, “Some Infamous Tory Reviews”, in Edwin Greenlaw, editor, Studies in Philology, volume XXII, number 4, Chapel...
For Longinus, it is the rhetor’s public capacity to bring out the whole audience’s entrainment to sublimity that is most important.2005, Laurence Paul Hemming, “Rhetor and Rhetoric”, in Postmodernity’s Transcending: Devaluing God, London: SCM Press, →ISBN, page 53:
Five mornings a week the earl took the 9:55 train up to town, and it was well worth the mile walk from our house to the station to witness his entrainment.1954, E[dward] Alexander Powell, chapter 2, in Adventure Road, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:

plural	entrainments

Partly from French entraînement and partly entrain + -ment.

From entrain (“to board or put aboard a train”) + -ment.

What does entrainment mean?: Entrainment means enthusiasm, liveliness; impulsiveness.
What is entrainment in Malayalam?: Entrainment in Malayalam is സഹവഹനം. See Entrainment meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use entrainment in a sentence?: At page 60, and elsewhere, the English general is only spoken of as a mere nobody, carried away resistlessly by the “entrainments” [translating entraînements] around him.
What part of speech is entrainment?: Entrainment is a noun.
What is the plural of entrainment?: The plural of entrainment is entrainments.

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