Enter vs. Introduce — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Enter and Introduce
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Definitions
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