(v. t.) To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain.
(v. t.) To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain.
(v. t.) To color in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. See Grain, v. t., 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) Biological and psychosocial aspects of pathogenesis are discussed, especially in the light of a "shame-humiliation model" of paranoid processes, since shame and humiliation are engrained in Chinese culture.
(2) "But it's difficult for me because, it's very engrained within me," he said.
(3) His defiance is engrained and he scorns even those guards who try to be friendly.
(4) John Christensen of Tax Justice Network said: "Tax avoidance is deeply engrained in Britain's corporate culture.
(5) Trafficking in this region has become deeply engrained.” In the village of Kunuri, Deepti Minch, 19, describes her experience of being trafficked into domestic servitude in northern India’s Punjab state.
(6) Rebuck warned against the impact of digital piracy, saying it had been " engrained culturally ", and backed controversial moves to cut off the internet connections of people caught downloading pirated material.
(7) It is, of course, impossible to snap his fingers and replicate the Venezuelan system – El Sistema – that has seen the best part of 300,000 children given an orchestral training, and which has engrained classical music in numerous wider communities.
(8) Indeed, many believed that conflict was deeply engrained in human society, and that nations that survived did so because they were prepared to struggle.
(9) The first is the engrained idea that a capitalist crisis necessarily leads to radicalisation.
(10) Fortune-telling is so engrained in society that it is too late for this propaganda to have any impact But despite the official line, North Korea’s top elites are known to invite famous fortune-tellers to Pyongyang with warm hospitality, often in order to find out more about their future.
(11) His substantive point was a critique of what is now the conventional wisdom – promoted by Batty and most feminist groups – that “engrained sexism and gender power imbalances are the root causes of domestic violence”.
(12) More recently tolerance has grown in larger Chinese cities, but conservative attitudes remain deeply engrained and workplace discrimination against gay men and lesbians is common.
(13) Feelings about infertility are based on something deeper and more engrained in a person's character called concepts.
(14) And in provincial towns, away from the tourist resorts, it’s a far more deeply engrained idea – that the streets after dark become a male space.
(15) She will claim: "We're seeing an alien, warped view of sex normalised into our culture, engrained by the invisible hand of the market."
(16) But public funding became engrained in the sports business model long ago, so teams still have every reason to convince their fans to believe.
(17) It should be engrained in the culture of every organisation that works in this field, whether they be private, charity, or publicly run.
(18) But fortune-telling is so engrained in society that it is too late for this propaganda to have any impact: even government officials feel skeptical about the propaganda, for a story about ghosts or souls is no longer a strange story to them.
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.