What's the difference between current and entrain?

Current


Definition:

  • (a.) Running or moving rapidly.
  • (a.) Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
  • (a.) Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.
  • (a.) Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
  • (a.) Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
  • (a.) A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.
  • (a.) General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
  • (2) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
  • (3) The outward currents are sensitive to TEA and their reversal potentials differ.
  • (4) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
  • (5) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
  • (6) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
  • (7) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
  • (8) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
  • (9) Schistosomiasis control currently relies primarily on chemotherapy which is both expensive and temporary.
  • (10) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
  • (11) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
  • (12) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (13) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
  • (14) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
  • (15) Atmaca, who belongs to the Gregorian-Armenian church in Istanbul, said that he nevertheless holds the current pontiff in high regard.
  • (16) We analyzed the amounts and types of glycosphingolipids (GSLs) from peripheral blood lymphocytes, monocytes, and granulocytes isolated by counter-current elutriation.
  • (17) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
  • (18) Positivity was not correlated with current residence census tract socioeconomic indicators in black or white females.
  • (19) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
  • (20) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.

Entrain


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.
  • (v. t.) To put aboard a railway train; as, to entrain a regiment.
  • (v. i.) To go aboard a railway train; as, the troops entrained at the station.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Young and old mice were entrained to an LD 12:12 cycle, and then physiological and behavioral performance was monitored by a data-acquisition system.
  • (2) We conclude from this study that there is little or no seasonal photoperiodic entrainment of the antler and testicular cycles of males in this population of axis deer.
  • (3) The air entrainment devices from oxygen masks of four manufacturers (Henleys Medical Supplies Ltd, Vickers Medical, Intersurgical Ltd, C R Bard International Ltd) were studied.
  • (4) We conclude that: (1) two of the previously proposed criteria for diagnosis of entrainment (fixed fusion on the surface electrocardiogram and a first postpacing interval equal to the paced cycle length) are overly restrictive criteria for definition of "entrainment" of VT, (2) analysis of endocardial recordings from the site of origin of tachycardia during attempted entrainment of VT is useful for documenting the presence of entrainment, and (3) such analysis provides a basis for the understanding of surface electrocardiographic phenomenon associated with entrainment.
  • (5) These observations indicate that the central neural mechanisms responsible for the generation and entrainment of circadian rhythmicity in the rat are not capable of either the functional or morphological plasticity characteristic of other developing neural systems.
  • (6) Serious discrepancies between predicted and measured inspired oxygen levels delivered by these machines can occur and the advisability of using air entrainment devices in high oxygen dependent patients is questioned.
  • (7) After 6 and 9-h advance and delay shifts of the LD cycle, the 3 species of finches similarly re-entrained their activity rhythms in the direction of the shifted zeitgeber.
  • (8) Entrainment with a phase-delay or a phase-advance was apparent after 11L:11D and 14L:14D, but the individual rhythms were not all synchronized with respect to each other after 10L:10D.
  • (9) The results can be summarized as follows: (a) the daily estimated durations of sleep and wakefulness were positively correlated with the actual durations in all but one subject; (b) sleep and wake times were better estimated in the presence of a light-dark cycle even if the subjects were not entrained by the zeitgeber; (c) for both episodes, there was a consistent trend from an overestimation of relatively short to an underestimation of long durations; (d) with equal durations in the two episodes, sleep was estimated to be shorter than wake time; (e) the most accurate estimates centered around 10.5 h of sleep and 13.5 h of wake time; (f) the sleep and wake times added up to 24 h in subjects who did not deliberately "compensate" for relatively long sleep estimates with a short wake estimate, with the full cycle being adjusted to 24 h.
  • (10) In a group of the MS-DB units with stable background theta bursts the typical response consisting of entrainment of the phase-locked theta cycles was changed neither by physostigmine, nor by cholinergic-blocking drugs (scopolamine and atropine).
  • (11) The electroretinogram (ERG) was recorded in the dark from photo-entrained albino rabbits, using a constant-intensity, 500-nm, 50- or 100-msec stimulus at 1-min intervals.
  • (12) The onset of AA (phase angle of entrainment) appeared to be more sensitive to the time of food availability than to its termination.
  • (13) The jet entrains clot and resulting fragments and brings them into the high-velocity region for lysis and removal.
  • (14) The purpose of these experiments was to establish whether or not the relation of sympathetic to phrenic nerve activity shows properties consistent with the hypothesis that the inspiration-related sympathetic discharge is driven by a neural oscillator, independent of, but coupled and stably entrained to, the brain-stem respiratory oscillator.
  • (15) We assembled and evaluated a low-pressure plenum system, based upon the Farman entrainer, which was adaptable to spontaneous, assisted or intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV).
  • (16) Hamsters were given bilateral infusions of the selective neurotoxin during entrainment to a light-dark cycle (LD) of 14:10 h. At a later time, animals were transferred to constant light (LL) or dark (DD) for a prolonged period.
  • (17) Blinding or constant darkness frees the clock of entrainment by allowing it to run faster or slower than 24 hr.
  • (18) The axons of the pigmented cells terminate in the neuropil of the protocerebral bridge, together with neuronal elements that label with antibodies against serotonin and substance P. We suggest that the brain photoreceptors of the crayfish are important in the entrainment of circadian rhythms.
  • (19) A small but significant (p less than 0.01) disruption of phase entrainment was also noted that recovered within the same period.
  • (20) Two points are emphasized: (1) The amplitude of the pacemaker's daily oscillation declines as the duration of the entraining light pulse (photoperiod) is increased; and (2) the duration of the daily photoperiods throughout the breeding season is steadily increased as one moves toward the poles.