What does ENTER mean?
Definitions for ENTER
ˈɛn təren·ter
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word ENTER.
Princeton's WordNet
enter, come in, get into, get in, go into, go in, move intoverb
to come or go into
"the boat entered an area of shallow marshes"
enter, participateverb
become a participant; be involved in
"enter a race"; "enter an agreement"; "enter a drug treatment program"; "enter negotiations"
enroll, inscribe, enter, enrol, recruitverb
register formally as a participant or member
"The party recruited many new members"
figure, enterverb
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 downverb
make a record of; set down in permanent form
enterverb
come on stage
accede, enterverb
take on duties or office
"accede to the throne"
insert, infix, enter, introduceverb
put or introduce into something
"insert a picture into the text"
embark, enterverb
set out on (an enterprise or subject of study)
"she embarked upon a new career"
Wiktionary
enterverb
To go into (a room, etc.)
enterverb
To type (something) into a computer; to input
Enternoun
The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard.
Enternoun
A stroke of the Enter key.
Etymology: 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.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To ENTERverb
Etymology: entrer, French.
A king of repute and learning entered the lists against him. Francis Atterbury.
The eldest being thus entered, and then made the fashion, it would be impossible to hinder them. John Locke.
So your opinion is, Aufidius,
That they of Rome are enter’d in our counsels,
And know how we proceed. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.Mr. Phang, have you enter’d the action?
—— It is enter’d. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. ii.Agues and fevers are entered promiscuously, yet in the few bills they have been distinguished. John Graunt, Bills of Mortality.
To Enterverb
Be not slothful to go and to enter to possess the land. Judg.
Other creature here,
Beast, bird, insect, or worm, durst enter none. John Milton.He is particularly pleased with Livy for his manner of telling a story, and with Sallust for his entering into internal principles of action. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 409.
They were not capable of entering into the numerous concurring springs of action. Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind.
The French king hath often entered on several expensive projects, on purpose to dissipate wealth. Joseph Addison, on the War.
Gentlemen did not care to enter upon business ’till after their morning draught. Tatler, №. 86.
As soon as they once entered into a taste of pleasure, politeness, and magnificence, they fell into a thousand violences, conspiracies and divisions. Joseph Addison, on Italy.
ChatGPT
enter
To enter means to gain access into a place or a situation, usually by crossing a designated boundary or passing through an entrance. It can also refer to joining or participating in an activity, group, or conversation.
Webster Dictionary
Enterverb
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
Enterverb
to unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army
Enterverb
to engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc
Enterverb
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
Enterverb
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
Enterverb
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
Enterverb
to go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them
Enterverb
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
Enterverb
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
Enterverb
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
Enterverb
to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress."
Enterverb
to initiate; to introduce favorably
Enterverb
to go or come in; -- often with in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first steps
Enterverb
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
Enterverb
to penetrate mentally; to consider attentively; -- with into
Etymology: [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.]
Wikidata
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
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.]
Editors Contribution
enterverb
A measurement equal to within the motion inside of a typeset characters total amount of space a text will require in that territory. 1.) come or go into a place. Used as a stage direction to indicate when a character comes in stage. 2.) begin to be involved in her by becoming a member of or start working in an institution or profession.
I feel like it will soon be time for this son of Man to enter his kingdom.
Etymology: Come in
Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on April 27, 2024
enter
Give permission to access.
They were fortunate to enter government after the public gave them their trust in delivering unity, change, fair and just unified solutions.
Submitted by MaryC on February 15, 2020
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
ENTER
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Enter is ranked #68770 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Enter surname appeared 286 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Enter.
93% or 266 total occurrences were White.
2.4% or 7 total occurrences were Black.
1.7% or 5 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
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
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Anagrams for ENTER »
entre
treen
terne
renet
neter
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
Examples of ENTER in a Sentence
Chief Executive Dr. Elliot Parks:
We will have data coming through this year, when we enter the clinic is yet to be determined.
Major League Baseball prides Major League Baseball on providing fans in our ballparks with unparalleled proximity and access to our players and the game taking place on the field, at the same time, it is important that fans have the option to sit behind protective netting or in other areas of the ballpark where foul balls and bats( that slip out of players' hands or shatter) are less likely to enter.
When the polar vortex is weak, or an SSW event occurs, then the jet stream will tend to weakened, move further south, and become' wavier,' the effect of these changes is for warmer than normal air to move into the Arctic Amplification, colder weather to enter North America and Europe/Asia, and more extreme weather and storms overall in the middle latitudes( e.g., snowstorms).
I am convinced that the door of the Planalto Palace was opened for these people to enter because there is no broken door. It means someone facilitated their entry here.
I saw the building where we live already ablaze, my child was inside but I could not enter anymore.
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