Dictionary Definition
entry
Noun
1 an item inserted in a written record
2 the act of beginning something new; "they
looked forward to the debut of their new product line" [syn:
introduction,
debut, first
appearance, launching, unveiling]
3 a written record of a commercial transaction
[syn: accounting
entry, ledger
entry]
4 something (manuscripts or architectural plans
and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.)
submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition);
"several of his submissions were rejected by publishers"; "what was
the date of submission of your proposal?" [syn: submission]
5 something that provides access (entry or exit);
"they waited at the entrance to the garden"; "beggars waited just
outside the entryway to the cathedral" [syn: entrance, entranceway, entryway, entree]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- The act of entering.
- Permission to enter.
- entry for children only if accompanied by an adult
- A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
- A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
- A small group formed within a church, esp. Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
- An article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
- A record made in a
log, diary or anything similarly
organized.
- What does the entry for 2 August 2005 say?
- A term at any position
in a matrix.
- The entry in the second row and first column of this matrix is 6.
- An item of data in a database.
Usage notes
Ambiguity Prevention
- Correct: entry for children
- Not: entry to children as this means that you are entering TO (get to) a child. It is incorrect.
Synonyms
- (act of entering): access, entering, entrance
- (permission to enter): access, admission
- (doorway that provides a means of entering a building): entrance, way in
- (room just inside the front door of a building): entrance hall, foyer, hall, vestibule
- (group within a church):
- (article in a dictionary or encyclopedia): article
- (record in a log): record
- (term in a matrix):
- (item of data in a database):
Antonyms
Related terms
rel-top terms related to entryDerived terms
rel-top terms derived from entryTranslations
act of entering
- Dutch: invoer
- Finnish: sisääntulo
- German: Eintritt
- Polish: wejście
permission to enter
doorway that provides a means of entering a
building
room
- Dutch: entree
- Finnish: eteinen, tuulikaappi
- German: Flur
group within a church
article in a dictionary or encyclopedia
record in a log
term in a matrix
item of data in a database
- German: Eintrag
Extensive Definition
Entrance may also refer to:
- Entrance (display manager), a login manager for the X window manager.
- Entrance (Liturgical), a kind of liturgical procession in the Eastern Orthodox tradition
- Entrance (musician), born Guy Blakeslee
- Making an entrance, a theatrical term for the appearance of a character on screen or stage
- Admission to an event or establishment
- The Entrance, New South Wales, a suburb on the Central Coast of Australia
- "Entrance", a song by Dimmu Borgir from their 1997 album Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
entry in German: Eingang
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
access,
account, adit, admission, admittance, adversaria, adversary, aide-memoire, air
lock, annotation,
approach, arrival, booking, candidate, cataloging, chronicling, coming in,
competitor, contestant, corridor, credit, debit, docket, door, doorway, double entry, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entrance, entrance hall,
entranceway,
entrant, entree, entryway, favorite, footnote, foyer, galilee, gangplank, gangway, hall, impanelment, import, importation, importing, in, income, incoming, indexing, infiltration, ingoing, ingress, ingression, inlet, input, inscribing, inscription, insertion, insinuation, intake, interpenetration,
introduction,
introgression,
intrusion, inventorying, item, jotting, leakage, listing, lobby, logging, marginal note, marginalia, matriculation, means of
access, memo, memoir, memorandum, memorial, minute, minutes, mudder, narthex, notation, note, open arms, open door,
opening, opponent, participant, passage, passageway, penetration, percolation, plate horse,
plater, player, pole horse, pony, portal, portico, posting, propylaeum, race horse,
racer, reception, record, record keeping, recordation, recording, register, registration, registry, reminder, rival, scholia, scholium, seepage, single entry, stable, stake horse, staker, starter, steeplechaser, stoa, string, tabulation, threshold, vestibule, way, way
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