Enter Definition and Meaning

To effect penetration.

To come or go into a space or building.

To start to be involved in a situation or activity.

To begin or enroll in a particular state or situation.

To input data into a computer or system.

To become a part of a competition or contest.

To start to operate or take effect.

To intrude or interrupt in a situation.

To sign up or register for an event or activity.

To come or go into

To penetrate; pierce

To introduce; insert

To become a participant, member, or part of; join

To gain admission to (a school, for example).

To cause to become a participant, member, or part of; enroll

To embark on; begin

To make a beginning in; take up

To write or put in

To place formally on record; submit

To go to or occupy in order to claim possession of (land).

To report (a ship or cargo) to customs.

To come or go in; make an entry

To become a member or participant.

A key on a keyboard or keypad used to enter or confirm a command or other textual input.

(intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.

(transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.

(figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).

(transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.

(transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.

To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.

To become effective; to come into effect.

(legal) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.

To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order

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.

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.

To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).

To initiate; to introduce favourably.

(computing) Enter

(computing) Enter

To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea.

To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army.

To engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc.

To pass within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new dispensation.

To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.

To inscribe; to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name, or a date, in a book, or a book in a catalogue; to enter the particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of merchandise at the customhouse.

To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.

To make report of (a vessel or her cargo) at the customhouse; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper officer of the customs for estimating the duties. See Entry, 4.

To file or inscribe upon the records of the land office the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right pf preëmption.

To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress."

To initiate; to introduce favorably.

To go or come in; - often with in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first steps.

To get admission; to introduce one's self; to penetrate; to form or constitute a part; to become a partaker or participant; to share; to engage; - usually with into; sometimes with on or upon; as, a ball enters into the body; water enters into a ship; he enters into the plan; to enter into a quarrel; a merchant enters into partnership with some one; to enter upon another's land; the boy enters on his tenth year; to enter upon a task; lead enters into the composition of pewter.

To penetrate mentally; to consider attentively; - with into.

To come or go into;

Become a participant; be involved in;

Register formally as a participant or member;

Be or play a part of or in;

Make a record of; set down in permanent form

Come on stage

Put or introduce into something;

Take on duties or office;

Set out on (an enterprise, subject of study, etc.);

To formally record or submit something for consideration.

To penetrate or pierce something.

To enter or gain access to an organization or place stealthily.

To start a new venture or journey.

To sign up or enroll officially.

To present or put forward for consideration.

To enter without permission or welcome.

To sign up to become a member or participant.

To succeed in entering or going through something.

To gain entry to a place or resource.

To begin or start.

To take part in an activity or event.

To occur to someone; to be thought of.

To come to mind; to be considered.

To begin or start something new.

To become involved or come into existence.

To begin a different stage or period.

To become involved in a competitive or contentious situation.

To begin to enjoy and become involved in a particular activity or mood.

To put oneself in a dangerous or challenging situation knowingly.

To agree formally to something.

Before you enter the building, please sign in at the front desk.