Entice vs Entrain - What's the difference?
entice | entrain |
To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.
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To draw along as a current does.
(chemistry) To suspend small particles in the current of a fluid.
(figuratively) To encarriage, to conjoin, to link; as in a series of entities, elements, objects or processes.
(poetic) To get into or board a railway train.
To put aboard a railway train.
In transitive terms the difference between entice and entrain
is that entice is to lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope while entrain is to put aboard a railway train.entice
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Verb
(entic)citation, passage=Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.}}
- I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.
See also
* beguile * tempt * seduceReferences
* *entrain
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Etymology 1
.Verb
(en verb)- water entrained by steam
Etymology 2
.Verb
(en verb)- to entrain a regiment