pre-enter
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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| —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 | |
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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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