Definitions of enter [ˈɛn tər]

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Definition of 'enter'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) enter
to come or go in or into:
to enter a room; The thought never entered my mind.

2.  enter
to penetrate or pierce:
The bullet entered the flesh.

3.  enter
to put in or insert.

4.  enter
to become a member of; join.

5.  enter
to cause to be admitted, as into a school or a competition:
to enter a horse in a race.

6.  enter
to begin upon; engage or become involved in:
to enter the medical profession.

7.  enter
to share in; have an intuitive understanding of:
able to enter the spirit of the work.

8.  enter
to make a record of; record or register.

9.  enter
Law.

10.  enter
to make a formal record of (a fact).

11.  enter
to occupy or take possession of (lands), esp. under rightful claim.

12.  enter
to put forward, submit, or register formally:
to enter an objection; to enter a bid.

13. (v.i.) enter
to come or go in.

14.  enter
to be admitted, as into a school or competition.

15.  enter
to make a beginning (often fol. by on or upon):
to enter upon a new phase in history.

16.  enter
to come upon the stage (used in stage directions, often as a 3rd person imperative):
Enter Othello.

17.  enter
enter into,

18.  enter
to participate in; engage in.

19.  enter
to investigate; consider.

20.  enter
to sympathize with; share in.

21.  enter
to form a constituent part or ingredient of.

Etymology: (1900–05)

Definition of 'enter'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) enter, come in, get into, get in, go into, go in, move into
to come or go into
"the boat entered an area of shallow marshes"

2. (verb) enter, participate
become a participant; be involved in
"enter a race"; "enter an agreement"; "enter a drug treatment program"; "enter negotiations"

3. (verb) enroll, inscribe, enter, enrol, recruit
register formally as a participant or member
"The party recruited many new members"

4. (verb) figure, enter
be or play a part of or in
"Elections figure prominently in every government program"; "How do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?"

5. (verb) record, enter, put down
make a record of; set down in permanent form

6. (verb) enter
come on stage

7. (verb) accede, enter
take on duties or office
"accede to the throne"

8. (verb) insert, infix, enter, introduce
put or introduce into something
"insert a picture into the text"

9. (verb) embark, enter
set out on (an enterprise or subject of study)
"she embarked upon a new career"

Definition of 'enter'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) enter
to come or go into a place
when we entered the building; The sign said: Do not enter.; They must have entered through the window.

2.  enter
to start doing sth new
children entering school for the first time; We're entering a new phase in the relationship.

3.  enter
to put information onto a form, into a computer, etc.
Enter the last four digits of your social security number.

4.  enter
to say you will take part in a competition
It costs $10 to enter the race.; I decided not to enter.

Definition of 'enter'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) enter
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

2. (verb) enter
to unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army

3. (verb) enter
to engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc

4. (verb) enter
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. (verb) enter
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. (verb) enter
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. (verb) enter
to go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them

8. (verb) enter
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

9. (verb) enter
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

10. (verb) enter
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 pf preemption

11. (verb) enter
to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress."

12. (verb) enter
to initiate; to introduce favorably

13. (verb) enter
to go or come in; -- often with in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first steps

14. (verb) enter
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

15. (verb) enter
to penetrate mentally; to consider attentively; -- with into

Translation of 'enter'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to go or come in Enter by this door.
Afrikaans: binnegaan, ingaan	Arabic: يَدْخُل	Bulgarian: влизам
Brazilian: entrar	Czech: vstoupit	German: eintreten
Danish: gå ind; komme ind	Greek: μπαίνω	Spanish: entrar
Estonian: sisenema	Farsi: داخل شدن	Finnish: käydä sisään
French: entrer	Hebrew: לְהִיכָּנֵס	Hindi: भीतर आना, घुसाना
Croatian: ući, izaći	Hungarian: belép	Indonesian: masuk
Icelandic: koma eða fara inn eða inn	Italian: entrare	Japanese: 入る
Korean: 들어가다	Lithuanian: įeiti	Latvian: ieiet; ienākt
Malay: masuk	Dutch: binnengaan	Norwegian: gå/komme inn
Polish: wchodzić	Persian: داخل شدن	Pashto: داخلیدل
Portuguese: entrar	Romanian: a intra	Russian: входить
Slovak: vstúpiť	Slovenian: vstopiti	Serbian: ući
Swedish: gå in, komma in	Thai: เข้า	Turkish: girmek
Taiwanese: 進去	Ukrainian: входити	Urdu: اندر جانا یا آنا
Vietnamese: đi vào	Chinese: 进去
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