entrains
Gets on board
Entrains means carries along or draws in.
In technical contexts, a flowing substance entrains particles or droplets: The exhaust entrains moisture from the air.
In biology and psychology, to entrain is to synchronize rhythms—a person's circadian clock entrains to daylight cycles, or one oscillating system entrains another.
Her sleep schedule gradually entrained to the new time zone.
Patterned stress and silence
- oscillationRepeated back-and-forth movement
- circadianDaily biological cycle
- couplingJoint between systems
- phase-lockingFrequency and timing alignment
pacemaker · frequency · periodicity · melatonin · sleep-wake · resonance · brainwave · heartbeat
Raised flat structure
- conductorOne who directs musicians
- carriageWheeled passenger vehicle
- departureAct of going away
- passengerTraveler, not operator
railway · station · track · compartment · whistle · embarkation · coach · express
Take in fully
- assimilateAbsorb and incorporate fully
- integrateCombine into unified whole
- blendCombine into mixture
- mergeCombine into unity
combine · amalgamate · unify · consolidate · fuse · meld · coalesce · synthesize
rhythm
Patterned stress and silence
- oscillationRepeated back-and-forth movement
- circadianDaily biological cycle
- couplingJoint between systems
phase-locking · pacemaker · frequency · periodicity · melatonin · sleep-wake · resonance · brainwave · heartbeat · respiration
platform
Raised flat structure
passenger · railway · station · track · compartment · whistle · embarkation · coach · express · intercity
absorb
Take in fully
- assimilateAbsorb and incorporate fully
- integrateCombine into unified whole
- blendCombine into mixture
merge · combine · amalgamate · unify · consolidate · fuse · meld · coalesce · synthesize · harmonize
entrainsdetrains
Exits a railcar
detrain · disembarks · alights · gets off · disembark
entrainsdesynchronizes
Loses matched timing
desynchronize · decouples · decouple · dissociates · disrupts