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Is entrain a Scrabble word?

Yes, entrain is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 7 points in Scrabble.

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Definition

verb (English)

1. (chemistry) To suspend (small particles) in the current of a fluid.Examples: "In certain cases, it is possible to entrain enough of the solids continually in the effluent gas stream and then to disentrain them again away from the bed."transitive

2. (mathematics) To set up or propagate (a signal), such as an oscillation.transitive

3. (figuratively) To conjoin, to link; as in a series of entities, elements, objects or processes.figurativelytransitive

4. (neurobiology) To become trained or conditioned in (a pattern of brain behavior).Examples: "There are several neurofeedback-related approaches that make use of auditory and/or visual stimulation (AVS) to entrain or disentrain brain electrical activity."; "Hence, interestingly, a speaker (VR) might disentrain in no-frequency but entrain in the frequency of a particular discourse function; we also have a speaker with the opposite pattern (DF)."transitive

5. (now literary and rare) To draw, induce, or bring about.Examples: "Thou muſt doe well, / Faith true obtaine: / Wit none repell, / Friend déere entraine."; "That infancie looketh forward, and age backward; was it not that which lanus his double viſage ſignifide? yeares entraine me if they pleaſe; but backward."; "It is not the gawdy luſtre of the Purple, but the inward vertue of the Perſon, that proclaims Greatneſs; having alwayes obſerved you to entrain Humility and Integrity for your Retainers."literaryraretransitive

verb (English)

1. (poetic, intransitive) To get into or board a railway train.Examples: "There were two further unscheduled stops, one at a small station, Skalice, where a small party of tourists entrained, and at Břeclav, a junction and customs post on the Austrian frontier."; "[...] and the Southern Region has recently given another lead by adopting an approach practised for some time by certain U.S. commuter railroads - the pamphlet or brochure left on every seat at a rush-hour before passengers entrain."Antonyms: detrainintransitivepoetictransitive

2. (transitive) To put aboard a railway train.Examples: "to entrain a regiment"; "The train of articulated L.N.E.R. stock, of the type used on the London suburban services, which you have seen travelling empty over the Cheshire Lines Committee's main line through Trafford Park about midday in a westerly direction, was probably being sent to entrain workers from Risley (between Glazebrook and Padgate) at the conclusion of the morning shift."Antonyms: detraintransitive

noun (English)

1. (now rare) Spirit, liveliness, vivacity, drive.Examples: "[T]he greater number of reasonable people attributed the want of entrain and dullness of the whole thing to the presence of Monsignore ——."; "To some the delightful freshness and humour of Northanger Abbey, its completeness, finish, and entrain, obscure the undoubted critical facts that its scale is small, and its scheme, after all, that of burlesque or parody, a kind in which the first rank is reached with difficulty."; "Mr. Robert Newman’s orchestral concert season came to a brilliant close on Wednesday evening, when [Pyotr Ilyich] Tschaikowsky’s favourite symphony was rendered with all the sympathy and splendid entrain which Mr. Henry Wood commands from his band."archaiccountabletransitiveuncountable

Definition source: Wiktionary

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7 points
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