enroll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɹəʊl/
ipa: /ɛnˈɹoʊl/
ipa: /ɪnˈɹoʊl/
ipa: /ɪnˈɹəʉl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: enrolls
form: enrolling
form: enrolled
form: enrolled
form: enrol
form: enroule
form: enrowle
form: inrol
form: inroll
form: inroule
form: inrowle
Etymology: From Middle English enrollen, from Anglo-Norman enroller; by surface analysis, en- + roll.
Senses: examples: text: All the citizens capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.
ref: 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:
text: An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling.
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: list
word: note
word: note down
word: record
word: register
word: catalogue
word: enlist
word: enroll
word: induct
word: enscroll
word: put down
word: put on
word: register
word: tabulate
glosses: To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list
examples: text: They were eager to enroll new recruits.
synonyms: enlist
sign up
subscribe
glosses: To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of.
examples: text: Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?
synonyms: enlist
join
join up
sign up
subscribe
glosses: To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something).
topics: education
synonyms: enlist
join
join up
sign up
subscribe
glosses: To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something).
To register as a member of an educational institution.
topics: education
synonyms: enlist
join
join up
sign up
subscribe
add
sign up
glosses: To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something).
To register for a class or course of study.
synonyms: enlist
join
join up
sign up
subscribe
glosses: To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something).
To register to vote.
examples: text: Our quiuering Lances ſhaking in the aire,
And bullets like Ioues dreadfull Thunderbolts,
Enrolde in flames and fiery ſmoldering miſtes,
Shall threat the Gods more than Cyclopian warres, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:
text: enroll thy memorable name
In th’ heart of every honourable dame
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: So then were nothing lost to man;
⁠So that still garden of the souls
⁠In many a figured leaf enrolls
The total world since life began: […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 65:
glosses: To envelop; to enwrap.
examples: text: Many trilobites (e.g.37), including Ampyx priscus (Supplementary Fig. 11) had the capacity to enroll as do modern terrestrial isopods when threatened.
ref: 2019 October 17, Jean Vannier et al., “Collective behaviour in 480-million-year-old trilobite arthropods from Morocco”, in Scientific Reports:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: To curl up into a ball.
Derived terms: disenroll
enrollable
enrollee
enroller
enrollment
nonenrolled
overenrolled
reenroll
unenroll
unenrolled