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Entrance   /ˈɛntrəns/   Listen
noun
Entrance  n.  
1.
The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.
2.
Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.
3.
The passage, door, or gate, for entering. "Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city."
4.
The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business. "Beware of entrance to a quarrel." "St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology."
5.
The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.
6.
(Naut.)
(a)
The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
(b)
The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.


verb
Entrance  v. t.  (past & past part. entranced; pres. part. entrancing)  
1.
To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects. "Him, still entranced and in a litter laid, They bore from field and to the bed conveyed."
2.
To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm. "And I so ravished with her heavenly note, I stood entranced, and had no room for thought."





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"Entrance" Quotes from Famous Books



... flies. In a poorly constructed building, old paper can be pasted over the cracks, to make the structure fly-proof. Dry earth, street dust, or lime should be frequently sprinkled over the excreta, and the seat should be closed, to prevent the entrance of flies or mosquitoes. The seat should be washed frequently, and both the seat and the floor scrubbed at ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools • Ministry of Education Ontario
... germ of the disease. We therefore designed a small wooden building, to be erected a short distance from the tense, with a capacity of 2,800 cubic feet. The walls and ceiling were absolutely tight, the windows and vestibuled door screened and all precautions taken to prevent the entrance of insects. ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86
... surrounded him and by bunting him in the ribs, back and forth between them like a football, had stopped only when there was not a whole bone left in his carcass. However, she reflected, the coyotes were mostly puppies yapping at the entrance of their den at this time of year, and the last wolf had been cleaned out of the mountains, so there really was not much danger from any source save these ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart
... design—with no suspicion of the symbol undergirding it. The man had liked it all—steers and red-brown stone and all—but the wife had objected. She had travelled far, and she had seen, on a certain building in Rome, two lions guarding a ducal entrance. ...
— Mr. Achilles • Jennette Lee
... at her. My aunt laughed; said she must not teach me that; and led the way back to the entrance of the house. All along the verandah I noticed that the green-blinded long windows made other entrances for ...
— Daisy • Elizabeth Wetherell


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