Meaning of disentrain | Babel Free
Definitions
- To disembark from a train.
- To precipitate out of a flowing current.
- To disrupt an organism's circadian rhythm so that it is not aligned with its environment.
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To disrupt a body's homeostatic patterns. broadly
- To extinguish a conditioned association.
Examples
“French trains of all kinds travelled faster than German ones, this being made possible - in the case of troop transports - by an arrangement which required the men to take their provisions along, instead of having them disentrain in order to be fed at the stations.”
“North American continent; one could not cross the country on the same passenger railroad, but had to disentrain and wait for a connection.”
“I saw one Division disentrain at a station on Lines of Communication and begin a march to its camp, a distance of about ten miles.”
“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.”
“It is better to use the receiving silo or an oversized cyclone to disentrain the solid from the air.”
“Subsequent disentrainment relies upon opportunities for gravity separation that occur in the normal course of processing, but particles which disentrain too slowly and can not be filtered remain in suspension to the possible detriment of product quality.”
“Huisman and Hulot (2005) suggested that at Pe > 10 Microcystis will completely disentrain from the turbulence and can then form surface blooms.”
“Since different rhythms appear to have different ranges of entrainment, what happens is that as the period of the light-dark cycle is stretched, rhythms disentrain, but not all at once.”
“The cycles of the body are disentrained from the cycles of the regenerative Earth that formed us. But we needn't fly to be disentrained and drained.”
“When an organism is disentrained -- that is, when an organism is unable to make contact with the temporal frame of reference provided by the relevant zeitgeber (in this case, the alternating cycle of day and night), such a disentrained organism will operate on the basis of the intrinsic properties of its internal biological clock.”
“Because dexamethasone and naloxone successfully reduce body weight, blood lipid and glucose levels, and blood pressure in Obese/SHR (to be published), the question arose whether prevention of corpulency by daily exercise would also disentrain the genetically programmed obesity and hypertension.”
“In particular, hypnotic dissociation appears to disentrain the conscious facility responsible for our "free won't," the neurological circuitry that enables us to voluntarily suppress impulses that are on the verge of being executed.”
“The administration of subsequent AED(s) (lorazepam in the first patient, fentanyl and propofol in the second patient) dynamically disentrained the brain (statistically high T-index values were attained and sustained).”
“We have seen that consciousness can be viewed as an integration of neural functions, which are entrained and disentrained from moment to moment.”
“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).”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.