Entre vs. Enter — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Entre and Enter
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Entre
Archaic spelling of enter
Enter
To come or go into
The train entered the tunnel.
Enter
To penetrate; pierce
The bullet entered the victim's skull.
Enter
To introduce; insert
She entered the probe into the patient's artery.
Enter
To become a participant, member, or part of; join
Too old to enter the army.
Entered the discussion at a crucial moment.
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Enter
To gain admission to (a school, for example).
Enter
To cause to become a participant, member, or part of; enroll
Entered the children in private school.
Entered dahlias in a flower show.
Enter
To embark on; begin
With Sputnik, the Soviet Union entered the space age.
Enter
To make a beginning in; take up
Entered medicine.
Enter
To write or put in
Entered our names in the guest book.
Enters the data into the computer.
Enter
To place formally on record; submit
Enter a plea of not guilty.
Enter a complaint.
Enter
To go to or occupy in order to claim possession of (land).
Enter
To report (a ship or cargo) to customs.
Enter
To come or go in; make an entry
As the president entered, the band played "Hail to the Chief.".
Enter
To effect penetration.
Enter
To become a member or participant.
Enter
A key on a keyboard or keypad used to enter or confirm a command or other textual input.
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.
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.
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.
Enter
(transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
Enter your user name and password.
Enter
(transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
Enter
To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
Enter
To become effective; to come into effect.
Enter
(legal) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
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
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.
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.
Enter
To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
Entered according to act of Congress
Enter
To initiate; to introduce favourably.
Enter
(computing) Enter
Enter
(computing) Enter
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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