Word definition: enter

Etimology


From Middle English entren, from Old French entrer, from Latin intrō (“enter”, verb), from intrā (“inside”). Has been spelled as "enter" for several centuries even in the United Kingdom, although British English and the English of many Commonwealth Countries (e.g. Australia, Canada) retain the "re" ending for many words such as centre, fibre, spectre, theatre, calibre, sombre, lustre, and litre.

verb


enter (third-person singular simple present enters, present participle entering, simple past and past participle entered)

(intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.

(transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.

(figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).

(transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.

(transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.

(intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.

(law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.

(law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.

(transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order

To make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper customs officer for estimating the duties. See entry.

(transitive, US, dated, historical) To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right of preemption.

To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).

(transitive, obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.

Examples


You should knock before you enter, unless you want to see me naked.

[…] you can fynde in youre heartes to assaulte her with rebellion, or in any wise [ways] suffer any one eyvil motion to enter into your thoughtes against her?

Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. […] Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.

to enter a knife into a piece of wood;  to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.

My twelve-year-old son will be entering his teens next year.  She had planned to enter the legal profession.

Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. …  But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining".

Enter your user name and password.

Each amount entered in the debit column of the journal is posted by entering it on the credit side/column of of an account in the ledger.

I am pleased to notify the Congress of my intent to enter into a Free Trade Agreement with the Government of Singapore.

This Act shall enter into force on 01 March 1998.

to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment

Under existing laws governing the qualifications of an alien to enter 160 acres or more of the public domain he is only required to file his declaration of intent to become a citizen.

entered according to act of Congress

This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings, / Shall enter me with him.

Related words


synonyms

go in, ingo

come in

antonyms

(intransitive) exit

noun


enter (plural enters)

(computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”)

(computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”)

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