enter
/ˈɛntɚ/ verb A2- To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space. · You should knock before you enter, unless you want to see me naked.
- To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted. · to enter a knife into a piece of wood· to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.
- To go or come into (a state or profession). · My twelve-year-old son will be entering his teens next year.· She had planned to enter the legal profession.
- To type (something) into a computer; to input. · Enter your user name and password.
- To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
- Used as a stage direction, usually preceding the name of the character who appears.
- Used in the manner of a stage direction: to enter the picture, to become relevant.
- To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
Plural enter · He/she/it enters · Past entered · Past participle entered · -ing form entering
Verb forms
- Base form
- enter
- He/she/it
- enters
- Past
- entered
- Past participle
- entered
- -ing form
- entering
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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We will leave Danglars struggling with the demon of hatred, and endeavoring to insinuate in the ear of the shipowner some evil suspicions against his comrade, and follow Dantès, who, after having traversed La Canebière, took the Rue de Noailles, and entering a small house, on the left of the Allées de Meilhan, rapidly ascended four flights of a dark staircase, holding the baluster with one hand, while with the other he repressed the beatings of his heart, and paused before a half-open door, from which he could see the whole of a small room.
Reynolds anticipated Miss Darcy’s delight, when she should enter the room.
Bennet was forced to submit to a separation, which, as her husband by no means entered into her scheme of their all going to Newcastle, was likely to continue at least a twelvemonth.
Douglas entered the room.
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