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Definition of Enter

Enter 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. 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. Related Definitions: According, Account, Act, Actual, Admission, Admitted, Also, An, And, Another, Appearance, Army, As, Association, At, Attain, Ball, Be, Become, Before, Begin, Body, Book, Boy, Cargo, Catalogue, Cause, Closet, College, Come, Commence, Composition, Concerning, Congress, Consider, Constitute, Copyright, Country, Court, Cover, Customhouse, Date, Deposit, Description, Dispensation, Door, Duties, Engage, Enroll, Enter, Entered, Entitle, Entry, Era, Estimating, File, First, For, Form, From, Get, Go, Goods, He, Her, His, Horse, House, Imported, In, Initiate, Inscribe, Insert, Interior, Into, Introduce, Join, Judgment, Knife, Land, Lead, Legal, Log, Make, Manifest, Map, Member, Mentally, Merchandise, Merchant, Name, New, Occupied, Of, Office, Officer, Often, On, One, Or, Order, Original, Outer, Part, Partaker, Participant, Partnership, Pass, Penetrate, Person, Pewter, Picture, Piece, Pierce, Place, Plan, Pleonastically, Possession, Preemption, Profession, Proper, Public, Put, Quantity, Quarrel, Race, Received, Record, Regular, Report, Required, Right, River, Rule, Sale, Sea, See, Self, Share, Shell, Ship, Some, Sometimes, Statement, Submit, Take, Task, Teens, Tenth, The, Them, Title, To, Trade, Unite, Upon, Used, Vessel, Water, Wedge, With, Within, Wood, Writ, Writing, Year

Enter Quotations It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room. Elizabeth Bibesco All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. Anatole France Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. Friedrich Nietzsche Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? Thomas Jefferson Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks. Stokely Carmichael

Enter Translations enter in Afrikaans is insit enter in Dutch is indoen, insteken, steken enter in French is entrent, entrons, irruption, affilier, entrer enter in German is eingeben, betreten, Eintrag, Eingabe enter in Italian is somministrare, penetrare, registrazione, petizione enter in Latin is invado, intro, ingredior ingredi ingressus enter in Portuguese is entre enter in Spanish is pisar, montar, entrar, exposicion, inscribir

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