Entrance
The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.
Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.
The passage, door, or gate, for entering.
The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business.
The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.
The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.
To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.
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Entrance Quotations
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.
Henry L. Stimson
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Aesop
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
Michel de Montaigne
Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
Max Planck
The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
John Ciardi
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.
William Falconer
As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.
Martin Van Buren
To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
Jennifer Granholm
They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country.
Tom Tancredo
Entrance Translations
entrance in Afrikaans is toegang
entrance in Danish is indgang
entrance in Dutch is entree, ingang, toegang
entrance in German is Einsprungstelle, Eingang, Eingang, Eintritt
entrance in Italian is entrata, ingresso, entrata
entrance in Latin is ostium, porta, foris
entrance in Norwegian is adgang, inngang
entrance in Portuguese is entrada
entrance in Spanish is entrada, embocadura
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