entry

[ en-tree ]

/ ˈɛn tri /

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noun, plural en·tries.

an act of entering; entrance.

a place of ingress or entrance, especially an entrance hall or vestibule.

permission or right to enter; access.

the act of entering or recording something in a book, register, list, etc.

the statement, item, etc., so entered or recorded.

a person or thing entered in a contest or competition.

vocabulary entry.

Law. act of taking possession of lands or tenements by entering or setting foot on them.

the giving of an account of a ship's cargo at a custom house, to obtain permission to land the goods.

Accounting. the record of any transaction found in a bookkeeper's journal.

Bookkeeping.

Mining. adit(def 2).

Also called entry card. Bridge. a winning card in one's hand or the hand of one's partner that gives the lead to one hand or the other.

Origin of entry

1250–1300; Middle English entre(e) < Old French entree < Latin intrāta (noun use of feminine of intrātus, past participle of intrāre to enter), equivalent to intr- enter + -āta -ate¹

SYNONYMS FOR entry

5 record, note, memo, jotting.

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OTHER WORDS FROM entry

non·en·try, noun, plural non·en·tries. pre·en·try, noun, plural pre·en·tries.

Words nearby entry

entresol, entropion, entropion uveae, entropy, entrust, entry, entry blank, entry-level, entryism, entryway, entrée

Example sentences from the Web for entry

These “free” games display ads, often in obnoxious places, in lieu of the entry fee.

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His entry into the business of film making was as designer and writer of title cards for silent films.

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The sweepstakes begins on December 9th, 2014 at 8:00 AM EST and ends on January 31st, 2015 at 11:59 EST (the "Entry Period").

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The refugee from Eastern Europe had made his first entry into international law books.

The Man Who Invented the Word ‘Genocide’ |Nina Strochlic |November 19, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

But I used jazz as an entry point into what I was interested in talking about.

Herbie Hancock Holds Forth |David Yaffe |November 8, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
It is quickly challenged by the entry of Antigone with the Watchman, whose story Creon hastens out to hear.

Authors of Greece |T. W. Lumb
At the point of entry the wound holes through the skin are for all purposes round.

Warren Commission (5 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) |The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Eyton (Staffordshire, 48) has a long note on this entry which makes against his doctrine that the teamland is 120 acres.

Domesday Book and Beyond |Frederic William Maitland
The legionaries were quiet, but they lounged and ignored the entry of the officer.

Sea and Sardinia |D. H. Lawrence
But there was a discrepancy between the entry in his log and that in the log of the engineer.

Romantic Spain |John Augustus O'Shea

British Dictionary definitions for entry

entry

/ (ˈɛntrɪ) /

noun plural -tries

the act or an instance of entering; entrance

a point or place for entering, such as a door, gate, etc

the right or liberty of entering; admission; access
(as modifier)an entry permit

the act of recording an item, such as a commercial transaction, in a journal, account, register, etc

an item recorded, as in a diary, dictionary, or account

a person, horse, car, etc, entering a competition or contest; competitor
(as modifier)an entry fee

the competitors entering a contest considered collectively a good entry this year for the speed trials

the people admitted at one time to a school, college, or course of study, etc, considered collectively; intake

the action of an actor in going on stage or his manner of doing this

criminal law the act of unlawfully going onto the premises of another with the intention of committing a crime

property law the act of going upon another person's land with the intention of asserting the right to possession

any point in a piece of music, esp a fugue, at which a performer commences or resumes playing or singing

cards a card that enables one to transfer the lead from one's own hand to that of one's partner or to the dummy hand

English dialect a passage between the backs of two rows of terraced houses

Word Origin for entry

C13: from Old French entree, past participle of entrer to enter

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