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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_117285" /> ==
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' v. t.) 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. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' v. t.) 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. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' v. t.) 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. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' v. t.) 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. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To penetrate mentally; to consider attentively; - with into. </p> <p> '''(7):''' ''' (''' v. i.) 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. </p> <p> '''(8):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To go or come in; - often with in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first steps. </p> <p> '''(9):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army. </p> <p> '''(10):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc. </p> <p> '''(11):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To initiate; to introduce favorably. </p> <p> '''(12):''' ''' (''' v. t.) 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 preemption. </p> <p> '''(13):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress." </p> <p> '''(14):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order; as, to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment. </p> <p> '''(15):''' ''' (''' v. t.) 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. </p>
        
== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_59993" /> ==
<p> [[En'Ter,]] [[L.]] inter, intra, whence intro, to enter. The [[L.]] inter seems to be in, with the termination ter, as in subter, from sub. </p> 1. To move or pass into place, in any manner whatever to come or go in to walk or ride in to flow in to pierce or penetrate. [[A]] man enters a house an army enters a city or a camp a river enters the sea a sword enters the body the air enters a room at every crevice. 2. To advance into, in the progress of life as, a youth has entered his tenth year. 3. To begin in a business, employment or service to enlist or engage in as, the soldier entered the service at eighteen years of age. 4. To become a member of as, to enter college to enter a society. 5. To admit or introduce as, the youth was entered a member of College. 6. To set down in writing to set an account in a book or register as, the clerk entered the account or charge in the journal he entered debt and credit at the time. 7. To set down, as a name to enroll as, to enter a name in the enlistment. 8. To lodge a manifest of goods at the custom-house, and gain admittance or permission to land as, to enter goods. We say also, to enter a ship at the custom-house. <p> [[En'Ter,]] To go or come in to pass into as, to enter a country. </p> 1. To flow in as, water enters into a ship. 2. To pierce to penetrate as, a ball or an arrow enters into the body. 3. To penetrate mentally as, to enter into the principles of action. 4. To engage in as, to enter into business or service to enter into visionary projects. 5. To be initiated in as, to enter into a taste of pleasure or magnificence. 6. To be an ingredient to form a constituent part. Lead enters into the composition of pewter.
        
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