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Meaning of 'entry' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Entry [ n.]
- The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking.
- The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item.
- That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine.
- The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n., 5.
- The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.
- A putting upon record in proper form and order.
- The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary.

Meaning of 'entry' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . entry [ n]
Meaning (1):
- something that provides access (to get in or get out)
Example in sentence:
  • beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral;
  • they waited at the entrance to the garden
Meaning (2):
- something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)
Example in sentence:
  • several of his submissions were rejected by publishers;
  • what was the date of submission of your proposal?
Meaning (3):
- the act of entering
Example in sentence:
  • she made a grand entrance
Meaning (4):
- the act of beginning something new
Example in sentence:
  • they looked forward to the debut of their new product line

Nearby Words:

ent- entablature entablement entackle entad entail entailed entailing entailment ental

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