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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act or an instance of entering.
2. n. The privilege or right of entering.
3. n. Sports The act of entering the water in completing a dive.
4. n. A means or place by which to enter.
5. n. The inclusion or insertion of an item, as in a record: made an entry in the ledger.
6. n. An item entered in this way: a diary full of interesting entries.
7. n. An entry word, as in a dictionary; a headword.
8. n. A headword along with its related text.
9. n. One entered in a competition: received 400 entries for the poetry contest.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of entering; entrance; ingress; especially, a formal entrance.
2. n. A place of ingress or entrance; specifically, a passageway or space allowing ingress or access; an entrance-hall or entrance-room in a building, or any similar means of access; hence, in English cities, a short lane leading to a court or another street: as, St. Mary's entry.
3. n. Beginning; commencement.
4. n. The act of beginning; an initial movement or entrance, as in a course or upon a subject or consideration.
5. n. The act of entering or recording in a book; the act of setting down in writing, as a memorandum; the making of a record.
6. n. That which is entered or set down in writing; a record, as of a fact, or an item in an account.
7. n. A statement as to an importation of merchandise made under oath by an importer, to the effect that the merchandise described in such statement is of the actual value declared at the time and place where purchased or procured.
8. n. The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the custom-house to procure license to land goods, or the act of giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
9. n. In music, an act of an opera, burletta, etc.
10. n. In law: The act of taking possession of lands or tenements by entering or setting foot on the same. There is a right of entry when the party claiming may, for his remedy, either enter into the land or have an action to recover it, and a title of entry where one has lawful entry given him in the land, but has no action to recover till he has entered. An actual entry is made when one enters into and takes physical possession, either in person or by agent or attorney.
11. n. In medieval universities, a house or houses hired by a club of students to reside in at the university; a hostel; a hall. See hostel.
12. n. A sign from a conductor to a singer or player to begin.

Wiktionary

1. n. uncountable The act of entering.
2. n. uncountable Permission to enter.
3. n. A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
4. n. 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
5. n. A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
6. n. An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia; a record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.
7. n. linear algebra A term at any position in a matrix.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts
2. n. The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; ; also, that which is entered; an item.
3. n. That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine.
4. n. (Com.) The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n., 5.
5. n. The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.
6. n. A putting upon record in proper form and order.
7. n. The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an item inserted in a written record
2. n. something that provides access (to get in or get out)
3. n. the act of beginning something new
4. n. 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)
5. n. a written record of a commercial transaction
6. n. the act of entering