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Entrail vs Entrain - What's the difference?

entrail | entrain |

As verbs the difference between entrail and entrain

is that entrail is to interweave or bind while entrain is to draw along as a current does.

As a noun entrail

is an internal organ of an animal.

entrail

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(en verb)
  • (archaic) To interweave or bind.
  • * {{quote-book, 1590, , The Faerie Queene, section=Book III Canto VI citation
  • , passage=And in the thickest covert of that shade / There was a pleasant arbour, not by art / But of the trees' own inclination made, / With wanton ivy twine entrailed athwart, / And eglantine and caprifole among, / Fashioned above within their inmost part / That neither Phoebus' beams could through them throng / Nor AEolus' sharp blast could work them any wrong. }}
  • * 1598 , , letter to his son, reprinted in Annals of the reformation and establishment of religion 1824, by [[w:John Strype, John Strype], page 479,
  • Trust not any with thy life, credit, or estate: for it is mere folly for a man to entrail himself to his friend; as though, occasion being offered, he shall not dare to become his enemy.
  • * {{quote-book, 1885, , The Bloody Heart citation
  • , passage=Himself hid by entrailing foliage, / Betwixt whose leafy meshes he could see / That false pair's dalliance and badinage.}}
  • (heraldry) To outline in black.
  • ''A cross entrailed .
  • * 1847 , Henry Gough, John Henry Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table ... , Oxford, Page 124,
  • "Entrailed : outlined, always with black lines. See Adumbration, and Cross entrailed."
  • * 1775 , Hugh Clark, Thomas Wormull, An Introduction to Heraldry: Containing the Origin and Use of Arms; Rules ... , H. Washbourne, Page 122,
  • "Entrailed , a Cross, P.7, n.20, Lee says, the colour need not be named, for it is always sable."

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually, in the plural) An internal organ of an animal.
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  • (obsolete) Entanglement; fold.
  • Synonyms
    * innard, gut, tharm, intestine

    Anagrams

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    entrain

    English

    Etymology 1

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw along as a current does.
  • water entrained by steam
  • (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.
  • Etymology 2

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (poetic) To get into or board a railway train.
  • To put aboard a railway train.
  • to entrain a regiment

    Antonyms

    * detrain

    Anagrams

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