entry

English Online Dictionary. What means entry‎? What does entry mean?

English

Alternative forms

• entery (chiefly archaic)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English entre, from Old French entree (feminine past participle of the verb entrer, Modern French entrée). From Latin intrō.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĕnʹtrē, IPA^(key): /ˈɛntɹi/
• Rhymes: -ɛntɹi
• Hyphenation: en‧try

Noun

entry (countable and uncountable, plural entries)

2. The act of entering.

4. (uncountable) Permission to enter.

6. A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
7. (law) The act of taking possession.

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9. (insurance) The start of an insurance contract.
11. (Midlands) A passageway between terraced houses that provides a means of entering a back garden or yard.
13. A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
15. A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
17. An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.

    Meronym: headword (sometimes synonymous)

19. A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.

21. (linear algebra) A term at any position in a matrix.

23. The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
25. (music) The point when a musician starts to play or sing; entrance.
27. (hunting) The introduction of new hounds into a pack.

Synonyms

• (act of entering): access, enter, entrance
• (permission to enter): access, admission
• (doorway that provides a means of entering a building): entrance, ingang, way in (British)
• (passageway between terraced houses): See Thesaurus:alley
• (room just inside the front door of a building): See Thesaurus:entrance hall
• (group within a church):
• (article in a dictionary or encyclopedia): article, lemma, lexeme
• (record in a log): record
• (term in a matrix): element
• (item of data in a database):

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "act of entering"): departure, exit, exiting, leaving
• (antonym(s) of "doorway that provides a means of entering a building"): exit, way out (British)

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Translations

Anagrams

• Tyner, yrent