enter

enter is a 5-letter English word with 25 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A prefix signifying between, among, part. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 25 senses

Definitions

1. A prefix signifying between, among, part.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army.
4. transitive verb. To engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc.
5. transitive verb. 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.
6. transitive verb. 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.
7. transitive verb. 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.
8. transitive verb. To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
9. transitive verb. 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.
10. transitive verb. 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.
11. transitive verb. 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.
12. transitive verb. To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress."
13. transitive verb. To initiate; to introduce favorably.
14. intransitive verb. To go or come in; -- often with in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first steps.
15. intransitive verb. 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.
16. intransitive verb. To penetrate mentally; to consider attentively; -- with into.
17. verb. set out on (an enterprise or subject of study)

    "she embarked upon a new career"

    Synonyms: embark

18. verb. make a record of; set down in permanent form

    Synonyms: record

19. verb. become a participant; be involved in

    "enter a race"

    "enter an agreement"

    Synonyms: participate

20. verb. put or introduce into something

    "insert a picture into the text"

    Synonyms: infix, insert, introduce

21. verb. come on stage
22. verb. to come or go into

    "the boat entered an area of shallow marshes"

23. verb. take on duties or office

    "accede to the throne"

    Synonyms: accede

24. verb. register formally as a participant or member

    "The party recruited many new members"

    Synonyms: enrol, enroll, inscribe, recruit

25. verb. be or play a part of or in

    "Elections figure prominently in every government program"

    "How do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?"

    Synonyms: figure

Synonyms

embark, record, participate, infix, insert, introduce, accede, enrol, enroll, inscribe, recruit, figure

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in enter:

entre, neter, rente, terne, treen

Common word forms

enters, enteral, entered, enterer, entering, enterable

Words from these letters

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