enter
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
law
lifestyle
theater
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: enters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: entering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: entered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: entered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: enter
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: enter
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: entered
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: entred
pos: verb
tags: archaic
first-person
past
singular
form: enter
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: enterest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: entrest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: entered
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: enteredst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: entredst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: enters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: entres
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: entered
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: entred
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
singular
third-person
form: enter
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: entered
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: entred
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
plural
form: enter
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: entered
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: entred
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
subjunctive
form: enter
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: entering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: entring
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
present
form: entered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: entred
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: entre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
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.
We determined that the car driver’s transportation of multiple teen passengers, limited driving experience, and likely impairment from effects of cannabis at the time of the crash adversely affected her judgment of the danger of entering the intersection in front of the approaching combination vehicle.
gloss: To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to enter a knife into a piece of wood
to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.
gloss: To go or come into (a state or profession).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: 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".
gloss: To type (something) into a computer; to input.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Enter your user name and password.
gloss: To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Each amount entered in the debit column of the journal is posted by entering it on the credit side/column of an account in the ledger.
gloss: To come on to the stage during a performance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To come on to the stage during a performance.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: I’m usually a shoulder bag kind of girl, just because it fits my vibe more. But when I’m on my feet for hours—running through crowded airports or touring a new city—the last thing I want to think about is my stuff. Enter: A good crossbody.
gloss: To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I am pleased to notify the Congress of my intent to enter into a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the Government of Singapore.
gloss: To become effective; to come into effect.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This Act shall enter into force on 01 March 1998.
gloss: To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
pos: verb
gloss: To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: US
dated
historical
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
pos: verb
examples: entered according to act of Congress
gloss: To initiate; to introduce favourably.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings, / Shall enter me with him.
gloss: To begin (a regular activity or job); to undertake; to take up.
pos: verb
tags: formal
intransitive
examples: […] I entered, that same day, on a regular occupation of pushing Miss Havisham in this chair […] round her own room, and across the landing, and round the other room.
Synonyms: go in
ingo
come in
Antonyms: exit
Derived words: abandon hope, all ye who enter here
all hope abandon ye who enter here
break and enter
breaking and entering
do not enter
enterable
enterer
entering tone
enter into
enter into the equation
enter key
enter on the boards
enter the chat
enter the equation
enter the lists
enter the picture
enter the scene
entrance
it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
misenter
reenter
unentered
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