entry
an act of entering; entrance.
a place of ingress or entrance, especially an entrance hall or vestibule.
permission or right to enter; access.
the act of entering or recording something in a book, register, list, etc.
the statement, item, etc., so entered or recorded.
a person or thing entered in a contest or competition.
Law. act of taking possession of lands or tenements by entering or setting foot on them.
the giving of an account of a ship's cargo at a custom house, to obtain permission to land the goods.
Accounting. the record of any transaction found in a bookkeeper's journal.
Bookkeeping.
Mining. adit (def. 2).
Also called entry card .Bridge. a winning card in one's hand or the hand of one's partner that gives the lead to one hand or the other.
Origin of entry
1Other words for entry
Other words from entry
- non·en·try, noun, plural non·en·tries.
- pre·en·try, noun, plural pre·en·tries.
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How to use entry in a sentence
There is an expanded place-name index with more than 150,000 entries, and separate undersea, Moon, and Mars features.
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Commissary's inkstand was a coffee-cup without an handle, and his book of entries a quire of dirty writing-paper.
In the lists of apprentices which have been preserved to us the entries of names belonging to county families are frequent.
The Influence and Development of English Gilds | Francis Aiden HibbertOf late years it has been the custom to race from port to port, regular entries being made and prizes awarded.
Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.The result, however, has been a very considerable falling off in the entries for the races last year.
Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.Entries relating to the “spout or water engine” are frequent in their records.
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British Dictionary definitions for entry
/ (ˈɛntrɪ) /
the act or an instance of entering; entrance
a point or place for entering, such as a door, gate, etc
the right or liberty of entering; admission; access
(as modifier): an entry permit
the act of recording an item, such as a commercial transaction, in a journal, account, register, etc
an item recorded, as in a diary, dictionary, or account
a person, horse, car, etc, entering a competition or contest; competitor
(as modifier): an entry fee
the competitors entering a contest considered collectively: a good entry this year for the speed trials
the people admitted at one time to a school, college, or course of study, etc, considered collectively; intake
the action of an actor in going on stage or his manner of doing this
criminal law the act of unlawfully going onto the premises of another with the intention of committing a crime
property law the act of going upon another person's land with the intention of asserting the right to possession
any point in a piece of music, esp a fugue, at which a performer commences or resumes playing or singing
cards a card that enables one to transfer the lead from one's own hand to that of one's partner or to the dummy hand
English dialect a passage between the backs of two rows of terraced houses
Origin of entry
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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