noun
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The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard.
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A stroke of the Enter key.
verb
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To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
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You should knock before you enter, unless you want to see me naked.
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To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
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to enter a knife into a piece of wood; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.
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To go or come into (a state or profession).
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My twelve-year-old son will be entering his teens next year. She had planned to enter the legal profession.
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To type (something) into a computer; to input.
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Enter your user name and password.
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To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
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To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
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To become effective; to come into effect.
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To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
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To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order.
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to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment
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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.
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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.
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To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
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entered according to act of Congress
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To initiate; to introduce favourably.
Examples of enter in a Sentence
How shall I enter the drawing room?
I'll wait 'til you enter the gate.
We are about to enter a world where robots do more and more of our work for us.
Rice doesn't naturally have vitamin A. Enter transgenics.
Do you wish to enter the Brotherhood of Freemasons under my sponsorship?
Ikir, may I enter your home?
This is the definition of my Shangri-La; the town should have a good hospital where my child will enter this world and, if Martha want's to, she can work enough hours to utilize her skills.
Just before Howie was ready to give up, he was startled by a figure he'd not heard enter the house!
I did not like his plan, for I wished to enter college with my class.
Hoping to enter on an entirely new life quite unlike the old one, he expected everything to be unusual, even more unusual than what he was seeing.
And suddenly Brother A. came and, taking my arm, led me to a building to enter which we had to pass along a narrow plank.
A Cleveland mother had reported an infant child was taken from his crib while napping yet when Howie was able to enter the location before and during the alleged time, there was no sign of the child.
From the corner of her eye, she saw Alex enter the living room with a cup of coffee in one hand.
Stopping her seemed not to enter Dean's mind as she placed a chair in the middle of the room, looking up to make sure it was directly beneath the hanging brass fixture.
Bagration was embarrassed, not wishing to avail himself of their courtesy, and this caused some delay at the doors, but after all he did at last enter first.
Her life was about to enter its next phase of the nightmare.
Jackson had taken a step forward, ready to enter the room, but stopped when Connor's voice quieted.
The idea of defeat and flight could not enter Rostov's head.
He could not now understand how he could ever even have doubted the necessity of taking an active share in life, just as a month before he had not understood how the idea of leaving the quiet country could ever enter his head.
She went into Prince Andrew's study, trying to enter completely into his ideas, and considered her position.
Even with this limitation the subject is too vast for us to enter into details.
The thought of going to college took root in my heart and became an earnest desire, which impelled me to enter into competition for a degree with seeing and hearing girls, in the face of the strong opposition of many true and wise friends.
Lake Erie sits north of Ohio for a long stretch so to get into Canada going east; he'd enter in New York State, around Niagara Falls.
Knocking jarred him as he read, and he hid the book beneath a pillow before allowing Hilden's chosen messenger to enter.
Stimulated by such causes and obtaining formal permission from the Persian government, they would arise as a new Israel and enter on a new phase of national life and divine revelation.
It left the government free either to apply to foreign countries the general tariff or to enter into negotiations with them for the application, under certain conditions, of a minimum tariff.
Several attempts had been made by individuals belonging to the Labour party to enter the New South Wales parliament, but it was not until 1891 that the occurrence of a general election gave the party the looked-for opportunity for concerted action.
Marconi's successes and the demonstrations he had given of the thoroughly practical character of this system of electric wave telegraphy stimulated other inventors to enter the same field of labour, whilst theorists began to study carefully the nature of the physical operations involved.
In May 1859 Ferdinand of Naples was succeeded by his son Francis II., who gave no signs of any intention to change his fathers policy, and, in spite of Napoleons advice, refused to grant a constitution or to enter into an alliance with Sardinia.
This third possibility in philosophy does not enter at all into Lecky's grouping referred to above; in fact, it is very generally strange to older British thinking,3 t;csm.
Odoric set out on his travels about 1318, and his journeys embraced parts of India, the Malay Archipelago, China and even Tibet, where he was the first European to enter Lhasa, not yet a forbidden city.
Through the adoption of standardized treaties, they can enter into economic agreements, adopt the same weights and measures, and agree to honor the intellectual property of the others.
Why don't you enter the service, Uncle?
When about to enter Austrian territory proper his advance was, however, checked by the armistice of Villafranca.
Properties.--All attempts to make helium enter into stable chemical union have hitherto proved unsuccessful.
Dr Briggs remained a member of the Union Seminary faculty but left the Presbyterian Church to enter the Protestant Episcopal.
In 1850 he went back to England, in order to enter political life there.
As late as the accession of Assur-bani-pal and Samas-sum-yukin we find the Babylonians appealing to their city laws that groups of aliens to the number of twenty at a time were free to enter the city, that foreign women once married to Babylonian husbands could not be enslaved and that not even a dog that entered the city could be put to death untried.
The vestals were vowed to, chastity, lived together in a great nunnery, were forbidden to open or enter a tavern, and together with other votaries had many privileges.
The wide streets are traversed by a system of tramways, which pass through modern suburbs to the mining district about two leagues inland, and on the west a canal enables small vessels to enter the town without using the port.
The Crati, which flows from Cosenza northwards, and then turns abruptly eastward to enter the same gulf, is the only stream worthy of notice in the rugged peninsula of Calabria; while the arid limestone hills projecting eastwards to Capo di Leuca do not give rise to anything more than a mere streamlet, from the mouth of the Ofanto to the south-eastern extremity of Italy.
This mosquito does not as a rule enter the large towns; but low-lying coast districts and ill-drained plains are especially subject to it.
Another source of weakness is the fact that Italy is a country of transit and the Italian mercantile marine has to enter into competition with the ships of other countries, which call there in passing.
But now the moment had arrived when this vast group of provinces, forming the future kingdom of the Two Sicilies, was about to enter definitely and decisively within the bounds of the Italian community.
La Marmora, however, who believed himself bound in iour to Prussia, refused to enter into a separate arrangement.
Rattazzi, after ordering a body of troops to enter papal territory with no definite object, now resigned, and was succeeded by Menabrea.
On the 24th he captured Monte Rotondo, but did not enter Rome as the expected insurrection had not broken out.
Antonio Andrada, in 1624, was the first European to enter Tibet since the visit of Friar Odoric in 1325.
On the demand of Lennox, Darnley's father, Bothwell was put upon his trial, in April, but Lennox, having been forbidden to enter the city with more than six attendants, refused to attend, and Bothwell was declared not guilty.
The Marquis Lodovico Gonzaga of Mantua had for some time been pressing Mantegna to enter his service; and the following year, 1460, was perhaps the one in which he actually established himself at the Mantuan court, residing at first from time to time at Goito, but, from December 1466 onwards, with his family in Mantua itself.