What does enter mean?

Definitions for enter
ˈɛn təren·ter

Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word enter.

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

enter, come in, get into, get in, go into, go in, move into(verb)
to come or go into
"the boat entered an area of shallow marshes"
enter, participate(verb)
become a participant; be involved in
"enter a race"; "enter an agreement"; "enter a drug treatment program"; "enter negotiations"
enroll, inscribe, enter, enrol, recruit(verb)
register formally as a participant or member
"The party recruited many new members"
figure, enter(verb)
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?"
record, enter, put down(verb)
make a record of; set down in permanent form
enter(verb)
come on stage
accede, enter(verb)
take on duties or office
"accede to the throne"
insert, infix, enter, introduce(verb)
put or introduce into something
"insert a picture into the text"
embark, enter(verb)
set out on (an enterprise or subject of study)
"she embarked upon a new career"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

enter(Verb)
To go into (a room, etc.)
enter(Verb)
To type (something) into a computer; to input
Enter(Noun)
The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard.
Enter(Noun)
A stroke of the Enter key.

Origin: From entren, from entrer, from intro, from intra. Has been spelled as "enter" for several centuries even in the United Kingdom, although British English retains the "re" ending for many words such as centre, fibre, spectre, theatre, calibre, sombre, lustre, and litre.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

Enter(verb)
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
Enter(verb)
to unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army
Enter(verb)
to engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc
Enter(verb)
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
Enter(verb)
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
Enter(verb)
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
Enter(verb)
to go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them
Enter(verb)
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
Enter(verb)
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
Enter(verb)
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
Enter(verb)
to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress."
Enter(verb)
to initiate; to introduce favorably
Enter(verb)
to go or come in; -- often with in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first steps
Enter(verb)
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
Enter(verb)
to penetrate mentally; to consider attentively; -- with into

Origin: [OE. entren, enteren, F. entrer, fr. L. intrare, fr. intro inward, contr. fr. intero (sc. loco), fr. inter in between, between. See Inter-, In, and cf. Interior.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

Enter
Enter is the debut studio album by Dutch symphonic/gothic metal band Within Temptation, released by DSFA Records in 1997. The album prominently features lead singer Sharon den Adel's vocals as well as guitarist Robert Westerholt's gruff death metal growls. Lex Vogelaar, founder of Orphanage, supplied the guitar parts for "Pearls of Light", as well as producing the album, and Orphanage vocalist George Oosthoek performed some of the growls on "Deep Within".

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

Enter
en′tėr, v.i. to go or come in: to penetrate: to engage in: to form a part of.—v.t. to come or go into: to join or engage in: to begin: to put into: to enrol or record: to cause to be inscribed, as a boy's name at school, a horse for a race, &c.—n. (Shak.) ingoing.—adj. En′terable.—ns. En′terclose, a passage between two rooms; En′terer; En′tering.—Enter a protest, to write it in the books: thence simply, to protest; Enter into, to become a party to: to be interested in: to be part of; Enter on, to begin: to engage in. [Fr. entrer—L. intrare, to go into, related to inter, between.]

British National Corpus

Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'enter' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1993
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'enter' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2227
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'enter' in Verbs Frequency: #159

Anagrams for enter »

entre, treen

Numerology

Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of enter in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of enter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8