enter
Use Enter in a sentence
tər verb (used without object)
1.
to come or go in: Knock before you enter.
2.
to be admitted into a school, competition, etc.: Some contestants enter as late as a day before the race.
3.
to make a beginning (often followed by on or upon ): We have entered upon a new phase in history.
4.
Theater. to come upon the stage (used in stage directions as the 3rd person imperative singular or plural): Enter Othello, and Iago at a distance.
verb (used with object)
5.
to come or go into: He just entered the building. The thought never entered my mind.
6.
to penetrate or pierce: The bullet entered the flesh.
7.
to put in or insert.
8.
to become a member of; join: to enter a club.
9.
to cause to be admitted, as into a school, competition, etc.: to enter a horse in a race.
10.
to make a beginning of or in, or begin upon; engage or become involved in: He entered the medical profession.
11.
to share in; have an intuitive understanding of: In order to appreciate the novel, one must be able to enter the spirit of the work.
12.
to make a record of; record or register: to enter a new word in a dictionary.
13.
Law.
a.
to make a formal record of (a fact).
b.
to occupy or to take possession of (lands); make an entrance, entry, ingress in, under claim of a right to possession.
c.
to file an application for (public lands).
14.
Computers. to put (a document, program, data, etc.) into a computer system: Enter your new document into the word-processing system.
15.
to put forward, submit, or register formally: to enter an objection to a proposed action; to enter a bid for a contract.
16.
to report (a ship, cargo, etc.) at the custom house.
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17.
enter into,
a.
to participate in; engage in.
b.
to investigate; consider: We will enter into the question of inherited characteristics at a future time.
c.
to sympathize with; share in.
d.
to form a constituent part or ingredient of: There is another factor that enters into the situation.
e.
to go into a particular state: to enter into a state of suspended animation.
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enter-
variant of entero- before a vowel: enteritis.
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| —vb (when intr, | |
| 1. | to come or go into (a place, house, etc) |
| 2. | to penetrate or pierce |
| 3. | (tr) to introduce or insert |
| 4. | to join (a party, organization, etc) |
| 5. | to become involved or take part (in): to enter a game; to enter into an agreement |
| 6. | (tr) to record (an item such as a commercial transaction) in a journal, account, register, etc |
| 7. | (tr) to record (a name, etc) on a list |
| 8. | (tr) to present or submit: to enter a proposal |
| 9. | (intr) theatre to come on stage: used as a stage direction: enter Juliet |
| 10. | to begin; start: to enter upon a new career |
| 11. | to come into possession (of) |
| 12. | (tr) to place (evidence, a plea, etc) before a court of law or upon the court records |
| 13. | (tr) law |
| a. to go onto and occupy (land) | |
| b. chiefly (US) to file a claim to (public lands) | |
| [C13: from Old French entrer, from Latin intrāre to go in, from intrā within] | |
| 'enterable | |
| —adj | |
| 'enterer | |
| —n | |
| entero- or (before a vowel) enter- | |
| —combining form | |
| indicating an intestine: enterovirus; enteritis | |
| [from New Latin, from Greek enteron intestine] | |
| enter- or (before a vowel) enter- | |
| —combining form | |
| [from New Latin, from Greek enteron intestine] | |
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Word Origin & History
enter
mid-13c., from O.Fr. entrer, from L. intrare, from intra "within," related to inter (prep., adj.) "among, between."
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Medical Dictionary
enter- pref.
Variant of entero-.
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Example sentences
From it the veins commence and emerge from the organ at the same place as that at which the arteries enter.
Those of us lucky enough to enter network television out of college always felt out of place.
When piranhas enter into a confrontation they'll make a barking noise.
But the vitamin cannot enter bacterial cells and thus bacteria must make their own.
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