entry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
entertainment
hobbies
hunting
insurance
law
lifestyle
linear-algebra
mathematics
music
sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English entre, from Old French entree (feminine past participle of the verb entrer, Modern French entrée). From Latin intrō. Doublet of entrada and entrée.
Inflected forms:
form: entries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: entery
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The act of entering.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The wrestler's dramatic entry into the stadium was very impressive.
gloss: Permission to enter.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Children are allowed entry only if accompanied by an adult.
Strictly no entry for under-18s
gloss: A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of taking possession.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The start of an insurance contract.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A passageway between terraced houses that provides a means of entering a back garden or yard.
pos: noun
tags: Midlands
countable
uncountable
gloss: A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meronym: headword (sometimes synonymous)
The entry on spiders is on page number 69.
gloss: A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What does the entry for 2 August 2005 say?
gloss: A term at any position in a matrix.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The entry in the second row and first column of this matrix is 6.
gloss: The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The point when a musician starts to play or sing; entrance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The introduction of new hounds into a pack.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Here was an excellent entry of hounds which would have fulfilled the late Earl Bathurst's dictum that breeders should always breed from hounds rather larger than those which they expect to put on.
Antonyms: departure
exit
exiting
leaving
exit
way out
Related words: enter
entrance
Derived words: adjusting entry
analytical entry
arctic entry
barrier to entry
bill of entry
book entry
book of first entry
book of original entry
book of prime entry
break and entry
counterentry
data entry
door entry system
double-entry
entry date
entry fee
entry ignition engine
entryism
entryist
entryless
entry-level
entry-phone
entryphone
entry phone
entry point
entry point for the eye
entry port
entryway
entrywise
entry wound
forced entry
forcible entry
interentry
misentry
multientry
negative entry
no entry
nonentry
port of entry
positive entry
postentry
post-entry
re-entry
re-entry shock
remote keyless entry
right of entry
rip entry
single-entry
subentry
video door entry
zero-entry
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