Exit vs. Enter — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Exit and Enter

Definitions

Exit➦

The act of going away or out.

Enter➦

To come or go into

The train entered the tunnel.

Exit➦

A passage or way out

An emergency exit in a theater.

Took the second exit on the throughway.

Enter➦

To penetrate; pierce

The bullet entered the victim's skull.

Exit➦

The departure of a performer from the stage.

Enter➦

To introduce; insert

She entered the probe into the patient's artery.

Exit➦

Death.

Enter➦

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

Too old to enter the army.

Entered the discussion at a crucial moment.

Exit➦

To make one's exit; depart.

Enter➦

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

Exit➦

To go out of; leave

Exited the plane through a rear door.

Enter➦

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

Entered the children in private school.

Entered dahlias in a flower show.

Exit➦

(Computers) To terminate the execution of (an application)

Exited the subroutine.

Enter➦

To embark on; begin

With Sputnik, the Soviet Union entered the space age.

Exit➦

An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.

He made his exit at the opportune time.

Enter➦

To make a beginning in; take up

Entered medicine.

Exit➦

The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.

Enter➦

To write or put in

Entered our names in the guest book.

Enters the data into the computer.

Exit➦

A way out.

Enter➦

To place formally on record; submit

Enter a plea of not guilty.

Enter a complaint.

Exit➦

An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.

Emergency exit

Fire exit

He was looking for the exit and got lost.

She stood at the exit of the house looking back and waving at those inside.

Enter➦

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

Exit➦

(road transport) A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).

Enter➦

To report (a ship or cargo) to customs.

Exit➦

The act of departing from life; death.

The untimely exit of a respected politician

Enter➦

To come or go in; make an entry

As the president entered, the band played "Hail to the Chief.".

Exit➦

(intransitive) To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.

Enter➦

To effect penetration.

Exit➦

(theatre) To leave a scene or depart from a stage.

Desdemona exits stage left.

Enter➦

To become a member or participant.

Exit➦

To depart from life; to die.

Enter➦

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

Exit➦

To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)

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.

Exit➦

To depart from or leave (a place or situation).

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.

Exit➦

To alight or disembark from a vehicle.

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.

Exit➦

To give up the lead.

Enter➦

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

Enter your user name and password.

Exit➦

Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.

Enter➦

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

Exit➦

He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

Enter➦

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

Exit➦

The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part.

They have their exits and their entrances.

Enter➦

To become effective; to come into effect.

Exit➦

Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one's exit.

Sighs for his exit, vulgarly called death.

Enter➦

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

Exit➦

A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out.

Forcing the water forth through its ordinary exits.

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

Exit➦

An opening that permits escape or release;

He blocked the way out

The canyon had only one issue

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.

Exit➦

Euphemistic expressions for death;

Thousands mourned his passing

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.

Exit➦

The act of going out

Enter➦

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

Entered according to act of Congress

Exit➦

Move out of or depart from;

Leave the room

The fugitive has left the country

Enter➦

To initiate; to introduce favourably.

Exit➦

Lose the lead

Enter➦

(computing) Enter

Exit➦

Pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life;

She died from cancer

They children perished in the fire

The patient went peacefully

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.