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. Doublet of entrada and entrée.

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)

Derived terms

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Translations

Anagrams

• Tyner, yrent