enter
IPA: ˈɛntɝ
noun
- The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard.
- A stroke of the Enter key.
- (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”) [The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard.]
- (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”) [The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard.]
verb
- (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
- (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
- (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
- (transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
- (transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
- (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
- (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
- (law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
- (transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order
- 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.
- (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.
- To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
- (transitive, obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.
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Examples of "enter" in Sentences
- What does enter is how affluent the buyer appears to be.
- ~enter:: fileappend, {enter} ` n, C: \Program Files\log. txt
- How does a word enter what Merriam-Webster says is the best-selling U.S. dictionary?
- The first thing you see as you enter is an exquisitely stitched peasant vomiting in a ditch.
- Did our friend and NATO ally permit our troops to enter from the North during the invasion of Iraq?
- Mark M.: Did our friend and NATO ally permit our troops to enter from the North during the invasion of Iraq?
- Guests enter from the street under a covered porch that leads to a double - height entry that is illuminated from above.
- All you have to do to enter is send an email to twilightlexiconcontest@gmail.com A winner will be chosen from the email entries.
- Shocked as much by Tupra's implicit invitation to secret power as by the procession of public figures engaging in acts of torture and violence, Deza feels the "poison" of the title enter into him.
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