Word Finder - entering

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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.

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Action of the verb to enter

You're forbidden from entering, Rhyn.

He knocked once before entering.

Finally we spotted a large chain store and upon entering, detected a bank of telephones near the rest rooms.

The man, dressed in slacks and sport shirt, was entering the newly renovated Beaumont Hotel.

She hesitated, sensing that entering his domain would somehow seal her to a fate she didn't yet understand.

They were entering the city of Buena Park.

He was privately educated before entering the university.

Vaguely she was aware of someone entering the lobby.

He will be forever stuck between the two worlds, the good and the evil, without entering either or leaving either behind.

At the far end of the library was a creature that made her think twice about entering.

Here the road was dry and only a few cars passed him before he drifted past a private hot spring, along the wide curve and by the County fairgrounds before entering Ridgway.

He pushed the door further but hesitated entering, as if remaining outside would absolve him of responsibility from what lay beyond.

Upon entering, Frederick wrote two notes, one for the Exemplars, detailing Victor's location, and one for his wife.

Upon entering the music room, she grabbed her throw pillow, sat in her usual chair and cooed, "Pleeeeze do that one about the clouds, the one you always lock the door for?"

Entering the terminal, she glanced around anxiously.

Just stepping into the cave-like master bedroom made her feel as if she was entering some forbidden place.

This form of micrometer is of course capable of giving results of high precision, but the drawback is that the process involves a minimum of six pointings and the entering of six screw-head readings in order to measure the two co-ordinates of the star.

We are entering a point where technology will change at extreme speeds.

On entering the door I remembered the doll I had broken.

On entering the forest the horses began to snort and sweated visibly.

Toward four o'clock in the afternoon Murat's troops were entering Moscow.

A sign informed them that they were entering the Canyon Creek Stewardship Project.

Paul Dawkins was only a smidgen more pleasant than his elder brother as Dean, lugging the heavy monitor, passed him entering the parlor.

Whether it was the personality or the fact that she was entering another stage was hard to tell.

The footsteps of those entering the kitchen were solid against the stone floor.

Entering the house, she heard nothing indicating he was home.

Ully opened the door without entering, his gaze fluttering from her to the angry non-human.

I.ve sealed off the crypt with magic to keep Immortals from entering through the shadow world, and installed locks for those who wander where they shouldn.t be, Kris said.

He flung the door open and shoved the healer into the room, ignoring the two surprised occupants of the chamber as he closed the door without entering.

He saw before entering that the sarcophagus was gone.

If you throw Sasha out, can you keep him from entering?

She pushed her door open and scanned the room before entering and closing it fast.

Claire gave a hint of a nod, remaining under the archway to the parlor, as if entering might subject her to some vile disease from these common folk.

She dreaded entering, wanting a moment of peace before being confined within the spartanly furnished room with the manic Arnie Smith.

Something rustled in the back, and Brady drew a knife, entering.

I saw him play last spring when I went out to the high school to bust the Cummings kid for breaking and entering.

He smiled down at her, a twinkle entering his eyes.

He turned and strode to the house, entering without a backward glance.

Why did Denton keep entering her mind when she was enjoying the evening so much with Justin?

The principal rivers entering the Mediterranean directly are the Nile from Africa, and the Po, Rhone and Ebro from Europe.

The tonnage of the shipping entering and clearing the ports of the province in 1905 was 1,756,866, of which 352,992 was foreign.

At the point of entering the alluvial plain the bed of the Tigris seems to be lower than that of the Euphrates, so that the canals run from the latter to the former stream.

Besides the Shari, the only important stream entering Lake Chad is the Waube or Yo (otherwise the Komadugu Yobe), which rises near Kano, and flowing eastward enters the lake on its western side 40 m.

The latter is subdivided into general commerce, which includes all goods entering or leaving the country, and special commerce whirls includes imports for home use and exports of home produce.

Entering Christ Church, Oxford, he graduated in 1727.

On the arrival of Amadeus in Spain, Ruiz Zorilla became minister of public works for a short time, and resigned by way of protesting against Serrano and Topete entering the councils of the new king.

Entering the department of Lot, it abandons a south-westerly for a westerly course and flowing in a sinuous channel traverses the department of Dordogne, where it receives the waters of the Vezere.

The other rivers worth mentioning are the Yarra, entering the sea at Port Phillip, Hopkins and Glenelg.

Broken Bay and other inlets, and several headlands, were also seen and named, but the vessel did not come to an anchor till Moreton Bay was reached, although the wind prevented Cook from entering this harbour.

Forrest and his party safely crossed the entire extent of Western Australia, and entering South Australia struck the overland telegraph line at Peake station, and, after resting, journeyed south to Adelaide.