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Enter   /ˈɛntər/  /ˈɛnər/   Listen
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Enter  v. t.  (past & past part. entered; pres. part. entering)  
1.
To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea. "That darksome cave they enter." "I,... with the multitude of my redeemed, Shall enter heaven, long absent."
2.
To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army.
3.
To engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc.
4.
To pass within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new dispensation.
5.
To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.
6.
To inscribe; to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name, or a date, in a book, or a book in a catalogue; to enter the particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of merchandise at the customhouse.
7.
(Law)
(a)
To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
(b)
To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order; as, to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment.
8.
To make report of (a vessel or her cargo) at the customhouse; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper officer of the customs for estimating the duties. See Entry, 4.
9.
To file or inscribe upon the records of the land office the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right of preemption. (U.S.)
10.
To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress."
11.
To initiate; to introduce favorably. (Obs.)


Enter  v. i.  
1.
To go or come in; often with in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first steps. "The year entering." "No evil thing approach nor enter in." "Truth is fallen in the street, and equity can not enter." "For we which have believed do enter into rest."
2.
To get admission; to introduce one's self; to penetrate; to form or constitute a part; to become a partaker or participant; to share; to engage; usually with into; sometimes with on or upon; as, a ball enters into the body; water enters into a ship; he enters into the plan; to enter into a quarrel; a merchant enters into partnership with some one; to enter upon another's land; the boy enters on his tenth year; to enter upon a task; lead enters into the composition of pewter.
3.
To penetrate mentally; to consider attentively; with into. "He is particularly pleased with... Sallust for his entering into internal principles of action."





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... de la marine," and especially, one should perhaps add, de la marine francaise. The first plan, the simplest and, therefore, most promising, was that Latouche Treville with the Toulon fleet should evade Nelson and, after releasing ships on the way, enter the Channel with 16 of the line, while Cornwallis was kept occupied by Ganteaume. This was upset by the death of Latouche, France's ablest and most energetic admiral, in August of 1804, and by the accession, ...
— A History of Sea Power • William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott
... are masters of cities, or perhaps better, of all the elements which enter into the making of them, and Peter was one. I think sometimes that he was born a writer of great force and charm, only as yet he had not found himself. I have known many writers, many geniuses even, but not one his superior in intellect ...
— Twelve Men • Theodore Dreiser
... the flower are alike) is old woman's penny. If you lived in the country you might be alarmed late in the evening by hearing the tramp of feet round your house. But it is not burglars; it is young fellows with a large net and a lantern after the sparrows in the ivy. They have a prescriptive right to enter every garden in the village. They cry 'sparrow catchers' at the gate, and people sit still, knowing it is all right. In the jealous suburb of a city the dwellers in the villas would shrink from ...
— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies
... with the oldest or most distinguished lady or the one to whom the dinner is given, while the hostess follows last, with the most honored gentleman. The host places the lady whom he escorts on his right. If the number is small, the host indicates the places the guests should occupy as they enter the room; if the party is large, the menu card at each plate bears the name of the guest for whom it is designed. The lady escorted by the host should ...
— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg
... sent from heaven!" he cried, at sight of her. "I enter out of the night and unburden my heart to this argus-eyed watchman, and, lo! you come flying in answer to my wish. Quick service, Judge. In appreciation of your telepathy I present you with some lumbago cure." He tossed ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach


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