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Definition: Enter |
EnterVerb1. To come or go into: "the boat entered an area of shallow marshes". 2. Become a participant; be involved in; "enter a race"; "enter an agreement"; "enter a drug treatment program"; "enter negotiations". 3. Register formally; as a participant or member. 4. 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?". 5. Make a record of; set down in permanent form. 6. Come on stage; in the theater. 7. Put or introduce into something; "insert a picture into the text". 8. Set out on (an enterprise, subject of study, etc.); "she embarked upon a new career". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "enter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Enter \En"ter\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Entered; Entering.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Long-distance land bird migration
Many species of land birds migrate very long distances, the most common pattern being for birds to breed in the temperate or arctic northern hemisphere and winter in warmer regions, often in the tropics or the southern hemisphere.
There is a strong genetic component to migration in terms of timing and route, but this may be modified by environmental influences. An interesting example where a change of migration route has occurred because of such a geographical barrier is the trend for some Blackcaps in central Europe to migrate west and winter in Great Britain rather than cross the Alps.
The advantage of the migration strategy is that, in the long days of the northern summer, breeding birds have more hours to feed their young on often abundant food supplies, particularly insects. As the days shorten in autumn and food supplies become scarce, the birds can return to warmer regions where the length of the day varies less and there is an all year round food supply.
The downside of migration is the hazards of the journey, especially when difficult habitats such as deserts and oceans must be crossed, and weather conditions may be adverse.
The risks of predation are also high. The Eleanora's Falcon which breeds on Mediterranean islands has a very late breeding season, timed so that autumn passerine migrants can be hunted to feed its young.
Whether a particular species migrates depends on a number of factors. The climate of the breeding area is important, and few species can cope with the harse winters of inland Canada or northern Eurasia. Thus the Blackbird Turdus merula is migratory in Scandinavia, but not in the milder climate of southern Europe.
The nature of the staple food is also important. Most specialists insect eaters are long-distance migrants, and have little choice but to head south in winter.
Sometimes the factors are finely balanced. The Whinchat Saxicola rubetra of Europe is a long-distance migrant wintering in the tropics, whereas its close relative, the Stonechat Saxicola torquata is resident in most of its range, and moves only short distances from the colder north and east.
Certain areas, because of their location, have become famous as watchpoints for migrating birds. Examples are the Point Pelee National Park in Canada, and Spurn in England. Drift migration of birds blown off course by the wind can result in "falls" of large numbers of migrants at coastal sites.
Another cause of birds occurring outside their normal ranges is the "spring overshoot" in which birds returning to their breeding areas overshoot and end up further north than intended.
A mechanism which can lead to great rarities turning up as vagrants thousands of kilometres out of range is reverse migration, where the genetic programming of young birds fails to work properly.
Recent research suggests that long-distance passerine migrants are of South American and African, rather than northern hemisphere, evolutionary origins. They are effectively southern species coming north to breed rather than northern species going south to winter.
Broad-winged long distance migrants
Some large broad-winged birds rely on thermal columns of rising hot air to enable them to soar. These include many birds of prey such as vultures, eagles and buzzards, but also storks.
Migratory species in these groups have great difficulty crossing large bodies of water, since thermals can only form over land, and these birds cannot maintain active flight for long distances.
The Mediterranean therefore presents a major obstacle to soaring birds, which are forced to cross at the narrowest points. This means that massive numbers of large raptors and storks pass through areas such as Gibraltar, Falsterbo and the Bosphorus at migration times. Commoner species, such as the Honey Buzzard can be counted in hundreds of thousands in autumn.
Other barriers, such as mountain ranges, can also cause funnelling, particularly of the large diurnal migrants.
Short-distance land bird migration
The long distance migrants in the previous section are effectively genetically programmed to respond to changing lengths of days. However many species move shorter distances, but may do so only in response to harsh weather conditions.
Thus mountain and moorland breeders, like the Wallcreeper and White-throated Dipper may move only altitudinally to escape the cold higher ground. Other species like the Merlin and Skylark will move further to the coast or to a more southerly region.
Species like the Chaffinch are not migratory in Great Britain, but will move south or to Ireland in very cold weather. Interesting, in Scandinavia, the female of this species migrates, but not the male, giving rise to the specific name coelebs, a batchelor.
Short distance passerine migrants have two evolutionary origins. Those which have long distance migrants in the same family, like the Chiffchaff, are species of southern hemisphere origins which have progressively shortened their return migration so that they stay in the northern hemisphere.
Those species which have no long distance migratory relative, like the waxwings, are effectively moving in response to winter weather, rather than enhanced breeding opportunities.
Wildfowl and wader migration
The typical image of migration is of northern landbirds such as swallows and birds of prey making long flights to the tropics. Many northern breeding ducks geese and swans are also long-distance migrants, but need only to move from their arctic breeding grounds far enough south to escape frozen waters.
This means that most wildfowl remain in the Northern hemisphere, but in milder countries. For example, the Pink-footed Goose migrates from Iceland to Great Britain and neighbouring countries. Usually wintering grounds are traditional and learned by the young when they migrate with their parents.
Some ducks, such as the Garganey, do move completely or partially into the tropics.
A similar situation occurs with waders (called "shorebirds" in North America). Many species, such as Dunlin and Western Sandpiper undertake long movements from their arctic breeding grounds to warmer locations in the same hemisphere, but others like Semipalmated Sandpiper travel huge distances to the tropics.
Most of the wildfowl are large and powerful, and even the waders are strong fliers. This means that birds wintering in temperate regions have the capacity to make further shorter movements in the event of particularly inclement weather.
Seabird migration
Much of what has been said in the previous section applies to many seabirds. Some, like the Black Guillemot and some gulls are quite sedentary, others, such as most of the terns and auks breeding in the temperate northen hemisphere move south varying distances in winter. The Arctic Tern sees more daylight than any other bird, moving from its arctic breeding grounds to the antarctic wintering areas. Seabirds, of course, have the advantage that they can feed on migration.
The most pelagic species, mainly in the order Procellariiformes, are great wanderers, and the albatrosses of the southern oceans may circle the globe as they ride the "roaring forties" outside the breeding season. The tubenoses in general spread thinly over large areas of open ocean, but congregate when food becomes available.
Pelagic birding trips attract petrels and other procellarids by tipping "chum", a mixture of fish oil and offal, into the sea. Within minutes, a previously apparently empty ocean is full of petrels, fulmars and shearwaters attracted by the food.
A few seabirds, like Wilson's Petrel, and Great Shearwater are amongst the few species that breed in the southern hemispehere and migrate north in the southern winter.
Migration in the tropics
In the tropics there is little variation in the length of day throughout the year, and it is always warm enough for an adequate food supply. Apart from the seasonal movements of northern hemisphere wintering species, most species are in the broadest sense resident. However many species undergo movements of varying distances depending on the rainfall.
Many tropical regions have wet and dry seasons, the monsoons of India being perhaps the best known example. An example of a bird whose distribution is rain associated is the Woodland Kingfisher of west Africa.
There are a few species, notably cuckoos, which are genuine long-distance migrants within the tropics. An example is the Lesser Cuckoo, which breeds in India and winters in Africa.
In the high mountains, such as the Himalayas and the Andes, there are of course also altitudinal movements of greater or lesser extent by many species.
Migration in Australasia
Bird migration is primarily, but not entirely, a Northern Hemisphere phenomenon. In the Southern Hemisphere, seasonal migration tends to be much less marked. There are several reasons for this.
First, the largely uninterupted expanses of land mass or ocean tend not to funnel migrations into narrow and obvious pathways, making them less obvious to the human observer. Second, at least for terrestrial birds, climatic regions tend to fade into one another over a long distance rather than be entirely separate: this means that rather than make long trips over unsuitable habitat to reach particular destinations, migrant species can usually travel at a relaxed pace, feeding as they go: short of banding studies it is often not obvious that the birds seen in any particular locality as the seasons change are in fact different members of the same species passing through, gradually working their way north or south.
Relatively few Australasian birds migrate in the way that so many European and North American species do. This is largely a matter of geography: the Australasian climate has seasonal extremes no less compelling than those of Europe, however they are far less predictable and tend to take place over periods both shorter and longer. A couple of weeks of heavy rain in one part or another of the usually dry centre of Australia, for example, produces dramatic plant and invertebrate growth, attracting birds from all directions. This can happen at any time of year, summer or winter and, in any given area, may not happen again for a decade or more.
Broader climatic extremes are highly unpredictable also: expected seasonal heat or rain arrives or does not arrive, depending on the vaguaries of El Niño: it is commonplace to have stretches of five or ten years at a time when winter rains do not eventuate during the El Niño cycle, and equally common to have La Niña periods which turn arid zones into areas of lush grass and shallow lakes. Long distance migration requires a heavy investment in time and body mass—and given the random nature of El Niño, an investment with an uncertain return.
In broad, Australasian birds tend to be sedantry or nomadic, moving on whenever conditions become unfavourable, to whichever area happens to be more suitable at the time.
There are many exceptions, however. Some species make the long haul to breed in far distant northern climes every year, notably swifts, and a great many wading birds that breed in the Arctic Circle during the southern winter.
Many others arrive for the southern spring and summer to breed, then fly to tropical northern Australia, New Guinea, or the islands of South East Asia for the Southern winter. Examples include cuckoos, the Satin Flycatcher, the Dollarbird, and the Rainbow Bee-eater.
Others again are altitudinal migrants, moving to higher country during summer, returning to warmer areas in winter like several robins, or travel north and south with the seasons but within a relatively restricted range. The tiny 10 cm Silvereye is an example: most of the southernmost Tasmanian race crosses the 200 miles of Bass Strait after breeding to disperse into Victoria, South Australia, NSW and even southern Queensland, replacing the normal residents who fly still further north, following the band of fertile country along the coast, feeding through the day and travelling mostly at night. The northernmost populations, however, are nomadic rather than migratory, as are the Silvereyes of southern Western Australia, which is bounded by thousands of miles of desert to the north and east, and sea to the south and west.
See also
- Bird ringing
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bird migration."
Synonyms: EnterSynonyms: come in (v), embark (v), enrol (v), enroll (v), figure (v), get in (v), get into (v), go in (v), go into (v), infix (v), inscribe (v), insert (v), introduce (v), move into (v), participate (v), put down (v), record (v), recruit (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: drop out (v), exit (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accounts | Verb: keep accounts, enter, post, book, credit, debit, carry over; take stock; balance accounts, make up accounts, square accounts, settle accounts, wind up accounts, cast up accounts; make accounts square, square accounts. |
Beginning | Verb: begin, start, commence; conceive, open, dawn, set in, take its rise, enter upon, enter; set out; (depart); embark in; incept. |
Ingress | Verb: have the entree; enter; go into, go in, come into, come in, pour into, pour in, flow into, flow in, creep into, creep in, slip into, slip in, pop into, pop in, break into, break in, burst into, burst in; set foot on; ingress; burst in upon, break in upon; invade, intrude; insinuate itself; interpenetrate, penetrate; infiltrate; find one's way into, wriggle into, worm oneself into. |
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Crosswords: Enter |
| Etymologies containing "enter": Introit. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Enter" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Papiamen (entire, integral, overall, whole). |
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Screenplays | Smokey you are about to enter a world of pain (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) But to enter Montero's world, I must give you something which is completely beyond yor reach (The Mask of Zorro; writing credit: Johnston McCulley; Ted Elliott) To enter your home as your mother's sick-nurse and send her body into the grave while my own into your father's marriage bed. (Sleepy Hollow; writing credit: Kevin Yagher) Scottie, do you believe that someone out of the past - someone dead - can enter and take possession of a living being (Vertigo; writing credit: Pierre Boileau; Thomas Narcejac) Did you also hear that if you do not enter the pyramid before the sun strikes it on that very morning, that the bracelet will suck the life out of you (The Mummy Returns; writing credit: Stephen Sommers) | |
Lyrics | I'd like to be able to enter a final plea (Run-Around; performing artist: Blues Traveler) Enter number two (If You Could Read My Mind; performing artist: Gordon Lightfoot) Mrs. Tucker will enter the joint (RAY'S ROCKHOUSE; performing artist: Manhattan Transfer) | |
Clever | Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here. (references; author: unknown) The world is like a beehive: We all enter by the same door, but we live in different cells. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Enter the Dragon (1973) Pay as You Enter (1928) Enter Madame (1922) | |
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 | After drugs enter the cell passively they are actively kicked out by the MDR gene product (glycoprotein) which acts as a pump. A drug like verapamil blocks the pump by inhibiting binding of the drug to the pump. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Gonorrhea, caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, if left untreated will enter the blood, thereby, spreading throughout the body. As is shown here, such full body dissemination may manifest itself as skin lesions and arthritic joints. Credit: CDC. |
 | A Zairian nurse in full protective clothing prepares to enter the isolation ward during the Ebola VHF outbreak in Kikwit, Zaire, 1995. Credit: CDC. |  | Sandy Hook Bar, New York Harbor entrance Surveyed under the direction of Lt. Cmdg. Thomas R. Gedney, 1835 Hydrographic Survey H-53 This survey helped publicize survey efforts by finding a new channel This channel made it easier and cheaper to enter and leave New York Harbor. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Currents and Temperature - Atlantic waters enter the Mediterranean through the Straits of Gibraltar and flow east along the North African coast, becoming more saline as evaporation exceeds freshwater inflows. Thus, the Mediterranean is mor e saline than the Atlantic. Strong temperature, salinity, and available nutrien t gradients lead to high biodiversity reflected by regional faunal differences. Credit: Fisheries. |  | A group wears protective clothing as they enter one of the portals at Iron Mountain Mine. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Edible shrimps, like this white shrimp, Penaeus setiferus, depend on healthy estuaries for their survival. They enter the estuary from the ocean as minute post larvae and return as adults in the span of just a few months. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Estuaries serve as vital nurseries for a wide variety of fishes, shellfishes, and birds. The bellies of these three juvenile fishes are packed full of goodies from the marsh's bounty. Pictured here from top to bottom are young of the year mullet, flounder, and spot, all of which enter North Inlet Estuary in February from their offshore places of birth. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Diver prepares to enter a shark cage. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | The Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PATHFINDER enroute to Okinawa where it sustained a kamikaze hit but survived to enter Tokyo Bay at the end of hostilities. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Enter here?" by Greg Schmigel Commentary: "Enter where? See more of my works at www.27cm.com." | "DANGER HV" by David Holtz Commentary: "Do Not Enter." |
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Dante (Alighieri) | Abandon all hope, you who enter here! |
Dante Alighieri | All hope abandon, ye who enter here! |
Horace | Life's brief span forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes. |
James A. Froude | We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone. |
John Ruskin | Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it. |
Mencius | Diseases enter by the mouth; misfortunes issue from it. |
Nelson Mandela | Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. |
Oscar Wilde | How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in? |
William Shakespeare | O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men! |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And this is done by barely agreeing to unite into one political society, which is all the compact that is, or needs be, between the individuals, that enter into, or make up a commonwealth. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 6: No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In all other respects the Treaty will enter into force for each Power at the date of the deposit of its ratification. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | He had not time to enter into much explanation |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Ghosts might enter here without affrighting us. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Let us enter notwithstanding |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He calls the just to His side, bidding them enter into the kingdom, the eternity of bliss, prepared for them |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Mae looks at and past them as they enter. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The lanes and alleys, which I could not enter, but only viewed them as I passed, are from twelve to eighteen inches |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Enter your search criteria, and click "Search." (references) | |
Pinworms enter the body when eggs are swallowed. (references) | ||
Humans enter the cycle when bitten by infected ticks. (references) | ||
Business | Another way is to enter into joint ventures with foreign yards. (references) | |
Choosing the best way to enter China’s market should be done carefully. (references) | ||
Electrotechnical companies use various ways to enter the Slovak market. (references) | ||
Children | Central African Republic | Some girls enter prostitution to earn money for their families. (references) |
Thailand | Parents who allow a child to enter the trade also are punishable. (references) | |
India | The course work is intended to allow these children to enter mainstream schooling. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | India | New arrivals enter as tourists on short-term visas. (references) |
Fiji | Every citizen has the right to enter and remain in the country. (references) | |
Cyprus | All visitors must obtain a formal "TRNC visa" to enter the north. (references) | |
Discrimination | Namibia | Nujoma also declared that homosexuals would not be allowed to enter the country; however, there were no reports of such incidents. (references) |
Economic History | Burma | Many children never enter primary school. (references) |
Colombia | Attendance--80% of children enter school. (references) | |
Human Rights | Peru | His relatives were not allowed to enter the house. (references) |
Mozambique | By law police need a warrant to enter homes and businesses. (references) | |
Pakistan | However, no information was given as to when the plan would enter into force. (references) | |
Minorities | Nepal | Caste discrimination is widely practiced at Hindu temples where, for example, members of the lowest castes are not permitted to enter. (references) |
Greece | Officials of the Orthodox Church have acknowledged that they refuse to enter into dialog with religious groups considered harmful to Greek Orthodox worshipers; church leaders instruct Orthodox Greeks to shun members of these faiths. (references) | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Also on May 8, a group of displaced Bosniaks originally from the RS refused to allow a group of displaced Serbs, originally from Sarajevo, to enter the Osjek cemetery in Ilidza, a suburb of Sarajevo that was predominantly Serb before the war. (references) | |
Political Economy | Ireland | Until 1989, Fianna Fail had refused to enter into a coalition government. (references) |
TURKEY | Children enter school at age 6 or 7 and are required to attend until age 14 or 15. (references) | |
CHILE | Computers enter Chile duty-free as a result of the WTO Information Technology Agreement. (references) | |
Political Rights | Czech Republic | To enter Parliament, a single party must obtain 5 percent of the votes cast in the election; however, coalitions must obtain 5 percent of the votes per party (i.e. a three-party coalition would have to receive 15 percent of the votes cast to enter Parliament). (references) |
Kyrgyz Republic | A pattern emerged whereby local Coalition representatives were denied admittance to polling places when the polls opened, then were allowed to enter later in the day after they sought relief through the courts, then again were denied access on technical grounds at the end of the voting day. (references) | |
Trade | France | Most imports enter under Most Favored Nation's Rates. (references) |
Travel | Azerbaijan | A valid passport and visa are required to enter Azerbaijan. (references) |
Costa Rica | Entry/Exit Requirements: A valid passport is required to enter Costa Rica. (references) | |
France | Goods imported for exhibition may enter under bond, deposit or an ATA carnet. (references) | |
Women | Philippines | More women than men enter secondary and tertiary education. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Women who wish to enter nontraditional fields are subject to discrimination. (references) | |
Swaziland | Women routinely execute contracts and enter into a variety of transactions in their own names. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Japan | An estimated 40,000 women from the Philippines enter the country each year on such visas. (references) |
Indonesia | A university professor estimates that about 150,000 children enter prostitution each year. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | Traffickers were known to enter nightclubs or other youth gathering places to look for recruits. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests. It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children. The fairies are now believed by naturalist to be extinct, though a clergyman of the Church of England saw three near Colchester as lately as 1855, while passing through a park after dining with the lord of the manor. The sight greatly staggered him, and he was so affected that his account of it was incoherent. In the year 1807 a troop of fairies visited a wood near Aix and carried off the daughter of a peasant, who had been seen to enter it with a bundle of clothing. The son of a wealthy bourgeois disappeared about the same time, but afterward returned. He had seen the abduction been in pursuit of the fairies. Justinian Gaux, a writer of the fourteenth century, avers that so great is the fairies' power of transformation that he saw one change itself into two opposing armies and fight a battle with great slaughter, and that the next day, after it had resumed its original shape and gone away, there were seven hundred bodies of the slain which the villagers had to bury. He does not say if any of the wounded recovered. In the time of Henry III, of England, a law was made which prescribed the death penalty for "Kyllynge, wowndynge, or mamynge" a fairy, and it was universally respected. |
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Yitzhak Rabin | I am healthy. I wish all my colleagues to the peace process to be healthy. I admire King Hussein his courage in leading his country for a long time. I appreciate the Chairman Arafat for his courage to take the decision to enter into negotiations with us. |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | I shall now enter on the duties to which my fellow-citizens have again called me, and shall proceed in the spirit of those principles which they have approved. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | The arrangements of the finances with a view to the receipts and expenditures of a permanent peace establishment will necessarily enter into the deliberations of Congress during the present session. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | In authorizing Major-General Jackson to enter Florida in pursuit of the Seminoles care was taken not to encroach on the rights of Spain. |
Martin van Buren | 1837-1841 | To enter on this occasion into a further or more minute exposition of my views on the various questions of domestic policy would be as obtrusive as it is probably unexpected. |
James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | Honored with this distinguished consideration at an earlier period of life than any of my predecessors, I can not disguise the diffidence with which I am about to enter on the discharge of my official duties. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief constitutional term of four years under great and peculiar difficulty. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | There are many new responsibilities for us as we enter into this new international era. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We have a responsibility to make immigrants welcome here, and they have a responsibility to enter the mainstream of American life. |
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| "Enter" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.83% of the time. "Enter" is used about 5,279 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 66.83% | 3,528 | 2,752 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 33.11% | 1,748 | 4,815 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.06% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,279 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "enter" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Enter | Last name | 130 | 57,410 |
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Expressions using "enter": ability to enter into ♦ do not enter ♦ enter a car for a race ♦ enter a caveat ♦ enter a convent ♦ enter a harbor ♦ enter a harbour ♦ enter a hospital ♦ enter a monastery ♦ enter a plea ♦ enter a protest ♦ enter again ♦ enter an act ♦ enter an action ♦ enter an action against smb. ♦ enter an appeal ♦ enter an appearance ♦ enter by force ♦ enter data ♦ enter deeply ♦ enter for ♦ enter idea in the head ♦ enter in ♦ enter in his account ♦ enter in talks with smb. ♦ enter in the book ♦ enter in the record ♦ enter into ♦ enter into a contract ♦ enter into a pact ♦ enter into a relationship with ♦ enter into alliance with ♦ enter into an agreement ♦ enter into an agreement with smb. ♦ enter into conversation with smb. ♦ enter into detail ♦ enter into details ♦ enter into marriage ♦ enter into negotiations ♦ enter into particulars ♦ enter into partnership ♦ enter into partnership with ♦ enter into possession ♦ enter into rivalry with ♦ enter into talks ♦ enter into the composition of ♦ enter into the feelings of ♦ enter into the feelings of others ♦ enter into the ideas of ♦ enter into the spirit ♦ enter into the spirit of ♦ enter key ♦ enter on ♦ enter on an inheritance ♦ enter one's head ♦ enter one's name ♦ enter oneself for ♦ enter politics ♦ enter pries priesthood ♦ enter priesthood ♦ enter service ♦ enter smb.'s service ♦ enter the church ♦ enter the country ♦ enter the finals ♦ enter the lists ♦ enter the mouth of a channel ♦ enter the name ♦ enter the spirit of ♦ enter the university ♦ enter unlawfully ♦ enter up ♦ enter upon ♦ enter upon an inheritance ♦ enter upon office ♦ enter upon one's duties ♦ to enter DOS/OS2/UNIX commands ♦ to enter into bear transactions ♦ to enter into bull transactions ♦ To enter on the boards ♦ To enter the lists. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "enter": easy-to-enter. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "enter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | insit (insert, put away, put in, stow). (various references) | |
Albanian | hyj (come, come in, get in, go, go in, penetrate, perform, shrink, soak, turn in). (various references) | |
Arabic | كتب (compile, compose, draft, draw up, inscribe, note down, pen, prescribe, publication, record, register, write, write down), قدم بيانا, سجل (book, calender, cut, enroll, history, list, log, mark, mark down, note, put down, rap, record, register, registry, score, send in, set down, sign on, take notes, tally, transcribe, write down), طرق (bang, beating, knock, knock repeatedly, knocking, percuss, percussion, pounding, puncture, rap, tool), إنضم (accede, associate, bunch, combine, join, range), إلتحق ب (rally, rejoin), إستعرض (inspect, look over, outline, parade, play act, represent, set forth, show, tackle, touch on), شلرك في المفاوضات, شارك (be shared, contribute, engage, involve, join in, part, partake, participate, partner, share, share in, sit in, spare one's life, take, take part), دخل (come in, extract, get in, go in, income, march, move in, proceeds, revenue, roll, run, sink, step inside, take, taking, turn in, yield), باشر (undertake). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | ipii (to enter). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | регистрирам (book, calendar, file, inscribe, list, log, record, register), влизам (bob in, come in, get in, get into, go, go in, hive, incur, inure, pass in, pass into, pull in, put in, step in, turn in, walk in), вписвам (docket, inscribe, register), навлизам (step in), започвам (begin, come in, commence, enter on, fall to, get under way, handsel, initiate, institute, jump off, kick off, lead, lead off, open, preface, premise, roll, set in, set out on, set up, settle in, start off, start up, take off, tee off, teethe, trigger), записвам в списък (enrol, enroll), прониквам в (penetrate, permeate, tap, transfuse), постъпвам (act, behave, go on, proceed). (various references) | |
Chinese | 進 (advance, to come in), 鑽 (an auger, diamond, probe), 进入 (Entered, Entering, entree, ingress). (various references) | |
Croatian | uæi. (various references) | |
Czech | vstoupit (come in, get in, go in, go into, walk in, walk into). (various references) | |
Danish | indtaste (go in, perform). (various references) | |
Dutch | steken (insert, lay down, pick, place, put, put down, put in, stab, sting), insteken (insert, put in, thread), indoen (insert, put away, put in, stow). (various references) | |
Esperanto | enveni (come into), enskribi, eniri (go in, perform), enigi (insert, put in). (various references) | |
Faeroese | fara inn (go in, perform). (various references) | |
Farsi | نام نویسی کردن (Enlist, Matriculate), قدم نهادن در, واردشدن (Arrive), توامدن , تورفتن (Retract), اجازه دخول دادن , داخل عضویت شدن , داخل شدن , درامدن (Burgeon, Erupt, Measure), بدست اوردن (Acquire, Attain, Catch, Earn, Gain, Get, Have, Impetrate, Obtain, Procure, Reap, Win). (various references) | |
Finnish | viedä kirjoihin, viedä kirjaan, merkitä kirjaan (make an entry), liittyä (accede, associate, attach oneself to, become a member of, come together, join, pool), käydä sisälle (go in), astua johonkin (ascend, step into), antautua (capitulate, devote oneself to, enter into, give oneself up, surrender, take up, yield oneself). (various references) | |
French | entrer, introduire. (various references) | |
German | betreten (accede, come into, embarrassed, go into, shamefacedly, step onto, to accede, to enter, walk on), hereinkommen (come in, come into, flow, get in, pop in, to come inside, to step in, walk in, walk into), eintreten (advocacy, come, come in, enlist, enter upon, espousal, espouse, eventuate, eventuation, fall, go in, join, kick down, kick in, occur, perform, set in, step in, to eventuate, to tread in, to tread into, tread in, wear in), eintragen (book in, bring, enrol, enroll, enter up, fetch, fill out, log, log up, record, register, registering, sign in, to enroll, to fill out, to register), Eintrag (black mark, entry, inscription, return, weft, woof), einschreiben (enroll, register, registered mail, send certified mail, sign up, write in), eingeben (entered, feed in, feed on, give, input, inspire, key, key in, put in, read in, supply, to input, to supply), Eingabe (entry, feed, input, intake, petition), buchen (accounting, beaches, beeches, book, book up, fix up, make a booking, post, record, register, reserve). (various references) | |
Greek | μπαίνω (come in, come into, get in, get into, go in, go into, pass in, pull in, set foot in, slip into), εισέρχομαι (come in, entrain, get in, go in, go into). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | hyj (go in, perform), aderoj (associate, come together, go in, join, perform, pool). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לחדור (bore, get home, get through, infiltrate, inroad, penetrate, permeate), להכניס (admit, insert, introduce, let in, put in, usher in), להכנס (come in, get in, go in, step in), להצטרף (join, join in), לבוא (arrive, come, reach), הכניס. (various references) | |
Hungarian | benevez (to enter, to enter for, to send in one's name), belép (set foot, to enter on, to join, to overstep, to pass in, to step in, to step into), beír (to book, to enrol, to enroll, to enter, to post up, to register). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menggerodak (break into, clatter about, rumble), memasuki (meddle in), masuk (go in). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | isiqtuq (to enter). (various references) | |
Italian | entrare (come in, entry, espousal, eventuate, eventuation, get in, go, go in, go out, join, occur, perform, soak in, step in, to enter, walk in), penetrare (intrusion, irruption, penetrate, penetrate into, permeate, Pierce, pierce into, seep into, sink, sink in, soak, soak in, steal into, strike). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 来光 , エンジン発動機 (angel, angel baby, angelfish, embassy, emblem, emboss, embroidery, empathy, emperor, emphasis, emphasize, empire, Empire Day, Empire State Building, empress, emptiomania, empty, empty nest, empty nest syndrome, end, end curler, end line, end user, -endian, ending, endive, endless, endless tape, endorphin, engine, engine stop, engineering plastics, enhancement, entasis, enterprise, entertainer, entertainment, entitled, entity, entrance, entropy, entry, envelope, hit-and-run, two-base entitlement). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | らいこう (arrival by ship, arrival of ships, coming to pay tribute, invasion, lightning, raid), エンター . (various references) | |
Korean | 들어가십시요. (various references) | |
Malay | masuk (go in, perform). (various references) | |
Manx | entreil (entry, go in), cheet stiagh (check in, come in, income, influx, revenue). (various references) | |
Maori | tomo-kia (to enter). (various references) | |
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