Enter vs. Introduce

Enterverb

(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.’;

Introduceverb

To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).

‘Let me introduce you to my friends.’;

Enterverb

(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.’;

Introduceverb

(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.’;

Enterverb

(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.’;

Introduceverb

(transitive) To add (something) to a system, a mixture, or a container.

‘Various pollutants were introduced into the atmosphere.’;

Enterverb

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

‘Enter your user name and password.’;

Introduceverb

(transitive) To bring (something) into practice.

‘Wheeled transport was introduced long ago.’;

Enterverb

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

Introduceverb

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

Enterverb

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

Introduceverb

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

Enterverb

To become effective; to come into effect.

Introduceverb

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.

Enterverb

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

Introduceverb

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

Enterverb

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’;

Introduceverb

To produce; to cause to exist; to induce.

‘Whosoever introduces habits in children, deserves the care and attention of their governors.’;

Enterverb

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.

Introduceverb

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

Enterverb

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.

Introduceverb

cause to come to know personally;

‘permit me to acquaint you with my son’; ‘introduce the new neighbors to the community’;

Enterverb

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

‘entered according to act of Congress’;

Introduceverb

bring something new to an environment;

‘A new word processor was introduced’;

Enterverb

To initiate; to introduce favourably.

Introduceverb

introduce;

‘Insert your ticket here’;

Enternoun

(computing) the computer key

Introduceverb

bring in a new person or object into a familiar environment;

‘He brought in a new judge’; ‘The new secretary introduced a nasty rumor’;

Enternoun

(computing) a stroke of the computer key

Introduceverb

bring in or establish in a new place or environment;

‘introduce a rule’; ‘introduce exotic fruits’;

Enterverb

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.’;

Introduceverb

put or introduce into something;

‘insert a picture into the text’;

Enterverb

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

Introduceverb

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

Enterverb

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

Introduceverb

as of legislation into a legislative body

Enterverb

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.

Introduceverb

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’;

Enterverb

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.

Introduceverb

be a precursor of;

‘The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in the post-Cold War period’;

Enterverb

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.

Enterverb

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

Enterverb

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.

Enterverb

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.

Enterverb

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

Enterverb

To initiate; to introduce favorably.

Enterverb

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.’;

Enterverb

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.

Enterverb

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

‘He is particularly pleased with . . . Sallust for his entering into internal principles of action.’;

Enterverb

to come or go into;

‘the boat entered an area of shallow marshes’;

Enterverb

become a participant; be involved in;

‘enter a race’; ‘enter an agreement’; ‘enter a drug treatment program’; ‘enter negotiations’;

Enterverb

register formally as a participant or member;

‘The party recruited many new members’;

Enterverb

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?’;

Enterverb

make a record of; set down in permanent form

Enterverb

come on stage

Enterverb

put or introduce into something;

‘insert a picture into the text’;

Enterverb

take on duties or office;

‘accede to the throne’;

Enterverb

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

‘she embarked upon a new career’;