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Difference Between Enter and Introduce

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Enter

To come or go into
The train entered the tunnel.

Introduce

To present (someone) by name to another in order to establish an acquaintance.

Enter

To penetrate; pierce
The bullet entered the victim's skull.

Introduce

To present (a performer, for example) to the public for the first time.

Enter

To introduce; insert
She entered the probe into the patient's artery.

Introduce

To make preliminary remarks about; preface
Introduced the slide show with a brief talk.
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Enter

To become a participant, member, or part of; join
Too old to enter the army.
Entered the discussion at a crucial moment.

Introduce

To put forward (a plan, for example) for consideration; propose.

Enter

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

Introduce

To provide (someone) with a beginning knowledge or first experience of something
Introduced me to weightlifting.

Enter

To cause to become a participant, member, or part of; enroll
Entered the children in private school.
Entered dahlias in a flower show.

Introduce

To bring in and establish in a new place or environment
Exotic plants that were introduced into gardening.
A disease that was introduced into the Americas.
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Enter

To embark on; begin
With Sputnik, the Soviet Union entered the space age.

Introduce

To bring into currency, use, or practice; originate
Introduced the new product in several test markets.
Introduced the tango into their circle of friends.

Enter

To make a beginning in; take up
Entered medicine.

Introduce

To put inside or into; insert or inject
Introduced a catheter into an artery.
Introduced realism to crime fiction.

Enter

To write or put in
Entered our names in the guest book.
Enters the data into the computer.

Introduce

To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
Let me introduce you to my friends.

Enter

To place formally on record; submit
Enter a plea of not guilty.
Enter a complaint.

Introduce

(transitive) To make (something or someone) known by formal announcement or recommendation.
The senator plans to introduce the bill in the next session.
Let me introduce our guest speaker.

Enter

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

Introduce

(transitive) To add (something) to a system, a mixture, or a container.
Various pollutants were introduced into the atmosphere.

Enter

To report (a ship or cargo) to customs.

Introduce

(transitive) To bring (something) into practice.
Wheeled transport was introduced long ago.

Enter

To come or go in; make an entry
As the president entered, the band played "Hail to the Chief.".

Introduce

To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

Enter

To effect penetration.

Introduce

To put (something into a place); to insert; as, to introduce the finger, or a probe.

Enter

To become a member or participant.

Introduce

To lead to and make known by formal announcement or recommendation; hence, to cause to be acquainted; as, to introduce strangers; to introduce one person to another.

Enter

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

Introduce

To bring into notice, practice, cultivation, or use; as, to introduce a new fashion, method, or plant.

Enter

(intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
You should knock before you enter, unless you want to see me naked.

Introduce

To produce; to cause to exist; to induce.
Whosoever introduces habits in children, deserves the care and attention of their governors.

Enter

(transitive) 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.

Introduce

To open to notice; to begin; to present; as, he introduced the subject with a long preface.

Enter

(figuratively) 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.

Introduce

Cause to come to know personally;
Permit me to acquaint you with my son
Introduce the new neighbors to the community

Enter

(transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
Enter your user name and password.

Introduce

Bring something new to an environment;
A new word processor was introduced

Enter

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

Introduce

Introduce;
Insert your ticket here

Enter

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

Introduce

Bring in a new person or object into a familiar environment;
He brought in a new judge
The new secretary introduced a nasty rumor

Enter

To become effective; to come into effect.

Introduce

Bring in or establish in a new place or environment;
Introduce a rule
Introduce exotic fruits

Enter

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

Introduce

Put or introduce into something;
Insert a picture into the text

Enter

To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order
To enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment

Introduce

Bring before the public for the first time, as of an actor, song, etc.

Enter

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.

Introduce

As of legislation into a legislative body

Enter

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.

Introduce

Furnish with a preface or introduction;
She always precedes her lectures with a joke
He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution

Enter

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

Introduce

Be a precursor of;
The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in the post-Cold War period

Enter

To initiate; to introduce favourably.

Enter

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Enter

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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.
That darksome cave they enter.
I, . . . with the multitude of my redeemed,Shall enter heaven, long absent.

Enter

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

Enter

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

Enter

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.

Enter

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.

Enter

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.

Enter

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

Enter

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.

Enter

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.

Enter

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

Enter

To initiate; to introduce favorably.

Enter

To go or come in; - often with in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first steps.
No evil thing approach nor enter in.
Truth is fallen in the street, and equity can not enter.
For we which have believed do enter into rest.

Enter

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.

Enter

To penetrate mentally; to consider attentively; - with into.
He is particularly pleased with . . . Sallust for his entering into internal principles of action.

Enter

To come or go into;
The boat entered an area of shallow marshes

Enter

Become a participant; be involved in;
Enter a race
Enter an agreement
Enter a drug treatment program
Enter negotiations

Enter

Register formally as a participant or member;
The party recruited many new members

Enter

Be or play a part of or in;
Elections figure prominently in every government program
How do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?

Enter

Make a record of; set down in permanent form

Enter

Come on stage

Enter

Put or introduce into something;
Insert a picture into the text

Enter

Take on duties or office;
Accede to the throne

Enter

Set out on (an enterprise, subject of study, etc.);
She embarked upon a new career

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