Meaning of 'enter' (Webster Dictionary)
- To go or come in; -- often with in used pleonastically;
also, to begin; to take the first steps.
- To get admission; to introduce one's self; to penetrate;
to form or constitute a part; to become a partaker or participant; to
share; to engage; -- usually with into; sometimes with on or upon; as,
a ball enters into the body; water enters into a ship; he enters into
the plan; to enter into a quarrel; a merchant enters into partnership
with some one; to enter upon another's land; the boy enters on his
tenth year; to enter upon a task; lead enters into the composition of
pewter.
- To penetrate mentally; to consider attentively; -- with
into.
- To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass
within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to
enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the
sea.
- To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a
member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army.
- To engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the
legal profession, the book trade, etc.
- To pass within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to
commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new dispensation.
- To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put
in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a
piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse
for a race, etc.
- To inscribe; to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name,
or a date, in a book, or a book in a catalogue; to enter the
particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of
merchandise at the customhouse.
- To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession
of them.
- To place in regular form before the court, usually in
writing; to put upon record in proper from and order; as, to enter a
writ, appearance, rule, or judgment.
- To make report of (a vessel or her cargo) at the
customhouse; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the
original invoices, to the proper officer of the customs for estimating
the duties. See Entry, 4.
- To file or inscribe upon the records of the land office
the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in
order to entitle a person to a right pf preemption.
- To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a
book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress."
- To initiate; to introduce favorably.
Meaning of 'enter' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- take on duties or office
Meaning (2):
- be or play a part of or in
Example in sentence:- Elections figure prominently in every government program;
- How do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?
Meaning (3):
- become a participant; be involved in
Example in sentence:- enter a drug treatment program;
- enter a race;
- enter an agreement;
- enter negotiations
Meaning (4):
- put or introduce into something
Example in sentence:- insert a picture into the text
Meaning (5):
- set out on (an enterprise or subject of study)
Example in sentence:- she embarked upon a new career
Meaning (6):
- to come or go into
Example in sentence:- the boat entered an area of shallow marshes
Meaning (7):
- register formally as a participant or member
Example in sentence:- The party recruited many new members
Definition
[ v. i.]