enter

enter
enterable, adj.enterer, n.
/en"teuhr/, v.i.
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 fol. by on or upon): We have entered upon a new phase in history.
4. Theat. to come upon the stage (used in stage directions as the 3rd person imperative sing. or pl.): Enter Othello, and Iago at a distance.
v.t.
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.
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.
[1200-50; ME entren < OF entrer < L intrare to enter, deriv. of intra within]
Ant. 1. leave. 7. remove.

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