Definition of "enter"

enter

/ˈɛntə(ɹ)/

verb
third-person singular simple present enters, present participle entering, simple past and past participle entered
1. (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
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  […] you can fynde in youre heartes to assaulte her with rebellion, or in any wise [ways] suffer any one eyvil motion to enter into your thoughtes against her?
  1555, John Proctor, The historie of Wyates rebellion, with the order and maner of resisting the same, …, page 86
  Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], John 3:5
  In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. […] Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
  1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […]
2. (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
3. (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
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  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. … But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining".
  2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21
4. (transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
5. (transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
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  Each amount entered in the debit column of the journal is posted by entering it on the credit side/column of of an account in the ledger.
  2003, A. Mukherjee, M. Hanif, Financial Accounting, page 27
6. (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
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  I am pleased to notify the Congress of my intent to enter into a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the Government of Singapore.
  2003 February 4, The President of the United States, “NOTIFICATION TO ENTER INTO A FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF SINGAPORE”, in U.S. Government Printing Office, retrieved 2013-9-9
7. (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
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  This Act shall enter into force on 01 March 1998.
  2005, United Nations, Dispositions Législatives Et Réglementaires Nationales Relatives À la Prévention Et À L'élimination Du Terrorisme International, page 215
8. (law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
9. (transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order
10. To make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper customs officer for estimating the duties. See entry.
11. (transitive, US, dated, historical) To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right of preemption.
  Quotations
  Under existing laws governing the qualifications of an alien to enter 160 acres or more of the public domain he is only required to file his declaration of intent to become a citizen.
  1887, United States General Land Office, Annual Report of the Commissioner of General Land Office, US Government Printing Office, page 82
12. To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
13. (transitive, obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.
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  This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings, / Shall enter me with him.
  c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
noun
plural enters
1. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”)
2. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”)

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