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Definition enter

Etymology

From Middle English entren, from Old French entrer, from Latin intr? (“enter”, verb), from intr? (“inside”). Has been spelled as "enter" for several centuries even in the United Kingdom, although British English and the English of many Commonwealth Countries (e.g. Australia, Canada) retain the "re" ending for many words such as centre, fibre, spectre, theatre, calibre, sombre, lustre, and litre.

Verb

enter (third-person singular simple present enters, present participle entering, simple past and past participle entered)

1. (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
2. (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
3. (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
4. (transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
5. (transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
6. (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
7. (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
8. (law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
9. (transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order.
10. to make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper customs officer for estimating the duties. See entry.
11. (transitive, US, dated, historical) To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right of preemption.
12. to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
13. (transitive, obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.

Noun

enter (plural enters)

1. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”)
2. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”)

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