Access vs. Entry

A means of approaching, entering, exiting, communicating with, or making use of

The act or an instance of entering.

The ability or right to approach, enter, exit, communicate with, or make use of

The privilege or right of entering.

Public access.

(Sports) The act of entering the water in completing a dive.

An increase by addition.

A means or place by which to enter.

An outburst or onset

The inclusion or insertion of an item, as in a record

To obtain access to, especially by computer

An item entered in this way

(uncountable) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.

An entry word, as in a dictionary; a headword.

(uncountable) The act of approaching or entering; an advance.

A headword along with its related text.

(uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.

One entered in a competition

(uncountable) The quality of being easy to approach or enter.

The act of entering.

(uncountable) Admission to sexual intercourse.

(uncountable) Permission to enter.

An increase by addition; accession

A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.

(countable) An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.

(legal) The act of taking possession.

(countable) An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion.

(insurance) The start of an insurance contract.

The right of a noncustodial parent to visit their child.

(Midlands) A passageway between terraced houses that provides a means of entering a back garden or yard.

The process of locating data in memory.

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

Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.

A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships

or assent.

An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.

(transitive) To gain or obtain access to.

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

To have access to (data).

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

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.

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.

The means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land.

(music) The point when a musician starts to play or sing; entrance.

Admission to sexual intercourse.

(hunting) The introduction of new hounds into a pack.

Increase by something added; addition; as, an access of territory. [In this sense accession is more generally used.]

The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking.

An onset, attack, or fit of disease.

The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item.

A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury.

That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine.

the right to enter

The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.

the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership)

an item inserted in a written record

a way of entering or leaving;

the act of beginning something new;

(computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information

a written record of a commercial transaction

the act of approaching or entering;

something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition);

obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer

something that provides access (entry or exit);

reach or gain access to;

the act of entering;