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
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 willtake 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 firststeps
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