Dictionary
en•ter
Pronunciation: (en'tur), [key]—
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.
1. to come or go into:
He just entered the building. The thought never entered my mind.
2. to penetrate or pierce:
The bullet entered the flesh.
3. to put in or insert.
4. to become a member of; join:
to enter a club.
5. to cause to be admitted, as into a school, competition, etc.:
to enter a horse in a race.
6. to make a beginning of or in, or begin upon; engage or become involved in:
He entered the medical profession.
7. 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.
8. to make a record of; record or register:
to enter a new word in a dictionary.
9. 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).
10. Computers.to put (a document, program, data, etc.) into a computer system:
Enter your new document into the word-processing system.
11. to put forward, submit, or register formally:
to enter an objection to a proposed action; to enter a bid for a contract.
12. to report (a ship, cargo, etc.) at the custom house.
13. 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. enter-
var. of
entero- before a vowel:
enteritis. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
