1879 Jrnl. Royal United Service Instit. 22 1075 The entraining and detraining of the troops, &c., are conducted entirely under the orders of the military commander.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 20 Jan. 8/3 The dreary goods-yard which does duty for the entraining station of war-bound troops.

?1922 F. E. M. Young Stronger Infl. iii. xxvi. 225 He had no clear idea as to his destination at the time of entraining.

2017 J.-D. G. G. Lepage Mil. Trains & Railways i. 30/1 Confusion and delays at the stations during the entraining of the troops were rendered the more complete.

1890 J. H. Campbell U.S. Patent 427,398 4/1 The method herein described of preventing the entraining of liquid and of promoting the heating and superheating of the gases expelled from the liquid in an ammonia-generator.

1949 Science 23 Sept. 294/1 The entraining of environment air at this stage must be a contributing factor in drying up the cloud.

1975 Jrnl. Compar. Physiol. 97 136 The adult flight pattern develops in a few days around the final moult in a sequence which involves the entraining of the motor neurones into the pattern.

2015 J. S. Godber in Gourmet & Health-promoting Specialty Oils (new ed.) xiv. 385 This reduction in yield is thought to be due to the entraining of oil in the soap stock.

1896 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 23 May 17005/1 The circulation in this case is due partly to the entraining action of the bubbles moving through the inclined tubes.

1962 Engineering 30 Mar. 430 Manufacturers of air-entraining Portland cement.

1975 Nature 27 Nov. 291/2 The various rhythms respond to changes in the phase or the period of the entraining cycle.

2013 P. K. Wang Physics & Dynamics of Clouds & Precipitation xii. 326 For an entraining cloud, the entrainment rate..is positive.