enters
noun
- 1
The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard.
- 2
A stroke of the Enter key.
verb
- 1
To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
“You should knock before you enter, unless you want to see me naked.”
- 2
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.”
- 3
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.”
- 4
To type (something) into a computer; to input.
“Enter your user name and password.”
- 5
To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
- 6
To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
- 7
To become effective; to come into effect.
- 8
To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
- 9
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”
- 10
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.
- 11
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.
- 12
To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
“entered according to act of Congress”
- 13
To initiate; to introduce favourably.
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