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Definition: Enroll |
EnrollVerb1. Register formally; as a participant or member. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "enroll" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Note: Enroll \En*roll"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Enrolled; present participle verb or noun Enrolling.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: EnrollSynonyms: enrol (v), enter (v), inscribe (v), recruit (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commission | Put in commission, accredit, engage, hire, bespeak, appoint, name, nominate, return, ordain; install, induct, inaugurate, swear in, invest, crown; enroll, enlist; give power of attorney to. |
Record | Enter, book; post, post up, insert, make an entry of; mark off, tick off; register, enroll, inscroll; file; (store). |
Warfare | Verb: arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war'; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend; battle with, break a lance with. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Enroll |
| English words defined with "enroll": Conscribe, conscript ♦ Enregister, Enrolling ♦ Inroll ♦ matriculate ♦ Verderor. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "enroll": Base acreage ♦ Conservation Reserve Program ♦ Integrated Farm Management Program ♦ Medicare Part B ♦ REGISTRATION CLERK ♦ Sign-up period. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | You would think for the sake of the kids she would enroll in school or ("Life Story"; performing artist: Black Rob) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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![]() | Society leaders enroll in Red Cross.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | School dilemma--Youths in Charlotte, N.C. taunt Dorothy Geraldine Counts, 15, as she walks to enroll at the previously all-white Harding High School, September 4t.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Every American boy should enroll in the Victory Boys.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Join ISI and enroll in the ISI Book Club ...Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | If anyone holding of us a lay fief shall die, and our sheriff or bailiff shall exhibit our letters patent of summons for a debt which the deceased owed us, it shall be lawful for our sheriff or bailiff to attach and enroll the chattels of the deceased, found upon the lay fief, to the value of that debt, at the sight of law worthy men, provided always that nothing whatever be thence removed until the debt which is evident shall be fully paid to us; and the residue shall be left to the executors to fulfill the will of the deceased; and if there be nothing due from him to us, all the chattels shall go to the deceased, saving to his wife and children their reasonable shares. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Allied and Associated Powers agree, so far as they are concerned, from the coming into force of the present Treaty, not to enroll in nor to attach to their armies or naval or air forces any German national for the purpose of assisting in the military training of such armies or naval or air forces, or otherwise to employ any such German national as military, naval or aeronautic instructor. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | However, you should not enroll if you do not plan to complete the study. (references) | |
The study will enroll approximately 300 stroke subjects, who will meet with investigators 15 times over a 6-month period. (references) | ||
People who enroll in this project are asked to create a family tree showing which people in their family have or have had epilepsy. (references) | ||
Business | Vietnamese students annually enroll in large numbers in the UK, Australia, the US, Canada, and New Zealand. (references) | |
Kuwait's schools currently enroll over 500,000 students, representing some 30 percent of Kuwaitis in the population. (references) | ||
The Federal Armed Forces accept female volunteers, who may enroll in a special training course started after the Gulf War. (references) | ||
Children | Rwanda | All families must pay school fees to enroll a child; however, school fees are routinely waived for orphans. (references) |
Nigeria | Many families favor boys over girls in deciding which children to enroll in secondary and elementary schools. (references) | |
Macedonia | The Ministry of Education encourages ethnic-minority students, especially girls, to enroll in secondary schools. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Yugoslavia | However, the vast majority of students have opted either to enroll in the secular course or not to sign up for either elective. (references) |
Tanzania | Muslim leaders have complained that the number of Muslim students invited to enroll in government-run schools still was not equal to the number of Christians. (references) | |
Hong Kong | Those granted refugee status, as well as those awaiting UNHCR assessment of their status, receive a subsistence allowance from the UNHCR, but are not allowed to seek employment or enroll their children in local schools. (references) | |
Economic History | India | Approximately eight million Indian students enroll for higher education. (references) |
Kenya | The five state universities enroll about 38,000 students, representing some 25% of the Kenyan students who qualify for admission. (references) | |
Colombia | The National Registry is currently maintained by the Superintendency of Securities to enroll market intermediaries and listed companies. (references) | |
Minorities | Dominican Republic | In July Secretary of Education and Vice President Milagros Ortiz-Bosch announced that all children would be allowed to enroll in school through the eighth grade, whether or not they had a birth certificate. (references) |
Dominican Republic | The Secretariat of Education subsequently announced it had signed an agreement with the Central Elections Commission to facilitate the acquiring of birth certificates for parents who could produce identity cards in order that all children would have birth certificates to enroll in school. (references) | |
Political Economy | Somalia | The TNG requested former soldiers to register and enroll in training camps to form a national army. (references) |
Travel | Saudi Arabia | Contrary to a previous ruling, these schools will be allowed to enroll students up to Grade 12. Many expatriates prefer to send teenage children to boarding schools outside of Saudi Arabia. (references) |
Women | Algeria | Custody of the children normally is awarded to the mother, but she may not enroll them in a particular school or take them out of the country without the father's authorization. (references) |
Kuwait | However, men and women practiced voluntary self-segregation, either by members of each gender sitting on opposite sides of a given classroom or by one gender choosing not to enroll in a given course. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Poland | In other cases, La Strada may assist the victim in seeking employment or help the victim enroll in computer classes. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Enroll" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Enroll" is used about 6 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) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 "enroll"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | regjistroj (book, calendar, catalogue, chalk, check in, cut a disk, cut the record, dub, enrol, enter, file, list, notify, record, register). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تسجل (register), سجل (book, calender, cut, enter, 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), جند (camp, commandeer, draft, draught, enlist, induct, recruit, soldiery), أعد بشكل كتابي, درج إسما. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | записвам в списък (enrol, enter), приемам (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, allow, assume, buy, concede, cotton, embrace, enrol, entertain, grant, induct, meet, postulate, premise, purchase, receive, recognize, see, stomach, take up, uphold, yield). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 注册 (enrol, Enrolled, Enrolling, Enrollment, login, logon, registration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zapsat se (check in, come up, enrol), zapsat (enlist, enrol, enter, input, key in, put down, record, register, take down, write down), protokolovat (enrol), přijímat (enrol, receive, take in), přihlásit se (come forward, enrol, put up one's hand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | inscrire (enrol, enter, to endorse, to enter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | einschreiben (enter, register, registered mail, registration, send certified mail, sign up, write in), sich immatrikulieren (matriculate, register at university), sich einschreiben lassen, sich einschreiben (enrol, register, sign up), sich anmelden (announce one's arrival, appear on the horizon, be on the way, book in, log on, make an appointment), aufnehmen (absorb, admit, affiliate, assimilate, begin, book, commence, enter into, establish, film, gathering, grabbing, grasping, hold, include, incorporate, ingest, list, photograph, pick up, pick-up, raise, receive, record, sop up, take, take down, take in, take on, take up, take up(a load), tape, to absorb, to affiliate, to assimilate, to host, to incorporate, to ingest, to map, to record, to resist, to survey, to withstand, twist, write in), anwerben (employ, enlist, hire, recruit, sign up), anmelden (advertise, announce, apply for, book, declare, enter, get a license for, give notice, log on, log-on, make known, register, registering, sign on, to announce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εγγράφω (book, matriculate, poll, record, register, to book, to enter, to record). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felvesz (admit, assess, enrol, pull on, shove on, take on, take up, to admit, to contract, to don, to enrol, to enroll, to get on, to pull on, to put on, to record, to reintroduce, to tick out), besoroz (conscript, draft, draught, enlist, enrol, induct, to attest, to conscript, to draft, to enlist, to enrol, to enroll, to induct, to list, to muster in), besorol (classify, enrol, list, number, rank, refer, to classify, to list, to number, to range, to rank). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mendaftarkan (enlist, register), mencatatkan nama. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | registrare (accounting, beeches, book, check in, enrol, enter, log, note, record, register, set, take down, tally, to book, to enter, to record, writing), iscriversi (enrol, enrol oneself, enter), iscrivere (engrave, enrol, enter, inscribe, record, register), ingaggiare (engage, enlist, enrol, hire, recruit), immatricolare (enrol, enrol oneself, matriculate, recorded delivery letter, register), arruolarsi (enlist, enrol), arruolare (draft, draught, enlist, enrol, join up, levy, recruit, sign on, sign up, tout, woo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 入る (to break into, to enroll, to enter, to join), 入る (to accommodate, to break into, to come in, to contain, to enroll, to enter, to flow into, to get in, to go in, to have, to hold, to join, to set, to set in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はいる (banishment, exile, to accommodate, to break into, to contain, to enroll, to enter, to have, to hold, to join). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 입문하십시" (enrol). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enrollay registrar (book, calendar, enrol, inscribe, label printer, list, matriculate, prick off, read, record, register, score, set down, signalize, trace, write down), registar (calendar, enrol, list, matriculate, point, record, register, score, to register, write down), recrutar (conscript, Crimp, enlist, enrollment, impress, levy, list, recruit), matricular (enrol, matriculate, register), inscrever (enrol, inscribe, put down, record, register, write in), fixar mentalmente (enrol, register), assentar (bottom, camp, clinch, deposit, enrol, fit, fit out, fit up, lay, place, plant, register, resettle, score, seat, shake down, strop), anotar (annotate, enrol, gloss, jot down, list, Mark, mark up, note, notebook, record, register, score), alistar (enlist, enrol, inscription, list, recruit, register). (various references) регистрировать (catalogue, check up, letter, log, logged, notify, record, register, write down), вносить в список (enrol, list). (various references) upisati (admit, bind, check in, chronicle, inscribe, register, subscribe, write in). (various references) enrolar (enlist, enrol, ship, sign on, sign up, to wind up). (various references) enrollera (enlist). (various references) สมัคร. (various references) yazmak (clock up, commit to paper, compose, conceive, draw, draw up, enter, grind out, indite, inscribe, note, note down, pen, put down, put on paper, record, reduce to writing, register, set, set down, take down, write, write down, write out), yazılmak (be down for, be enroled, be enrolled, enrol, enter, go down, register, sign up), kaydetmek (book, calendar, check in, Chronicle, enlist, enrol, enter, have smth. taped, inscribe, list, record, register, set down, tape, tape record, transcribe, write down), askere almak (conscript, Crimp, draft, draught, enlist, enrol, induct, levy, recruit), üye yapmak. (various references) вносити до списку (enrol), згортати (belay, convolve, enrol, fold, furl, roll up), записуватися (enrol, record, register), записувати (book, commit to paper, debit, enrol, mark down, note, notify, pencil, read in, record, set down, take down, write down). (various references) aelodi (become a member). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adscribantur, adscribatur, adscribit. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "enroll": enrolled, enrollee, enrollees, enroller, enrollers, enrolling, enrollment, enrollments, enrolls. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "enroll": misenroll, reenroll. (additional references) | |
Words containing "enroll": misenrolled, misenrolling, misenrolls, overenrolled, preenrollment, preenrollments, reenrolled, reenrolling, reenrolls. (additional references) | |
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"Enroll" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arnull, enor, enrile, enrolle, erll, erlo, erol, esnol, nerol, nerols, n'roll. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "enroll" (pronounced enrō"l or unrō"l) |
| 3 | -r ō" l | control, decontrol, droll, patrol, role, roll, scroll, stroll, troll. |
| 3 | -r ō" l | control, decontrol, droll, patrol, role, roll, scroll, stroll, troll. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-l-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: enrol, loner, nerol. | |
-2 letters: enol, leno, lone, lore, lorn, noel, orle, role, roll. | |
-3 letters: ell, eon, ern, nor, ole, one, ore, roe. | |
-4 letters: el, en, er, lo, ne, no, oe, on, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-l-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: enrolls, knoller. | |
+2 letters: enrolled, enrollee, enroller, enscroll, knollers, lonelier, lovelorn, prunello, reenroll, rondelle, unrolled, wellborn. | |
+3 letters: collinear, coralline, drollness, enrollees, enrollers, enrolling, enscrolls, ensorcell, hollering, lowlander, mellotron, misenroll, nucleolar, organelle, prunellos, rebellion, reenrolls, repolling, rerolling, rondelles, rowelling. | |
+4 letters: bankrolled, bankroller, chancellor, citronella, collarbone, controlled, controller, corallines, corbelling, cordelling, counsellor, downhiller, enrollment, enscrolled, ensorcells, fellmonger, flugelhorn, grovelling, inscrolled, interlocal, landholder, lordliness, lowlanders, mellotrons, misenrolls, morselling, neoliberal, neuroglial, nonliteral, organelles, orientally, personally, pollenizer, pollinizer, propellant, propellent, propelling, rebellions, redolently, reenrolled, regionally, relational, ritornelli, ritornello, slovenlier, tolerantly, tortellini, trolleying, trowelling, unlovelier, vermillion. | |
+5 letters: bankrollers, billionaire, carillonned, chancellors, chancellory, citronellal, citronellas, citronellol, collarbones, controllers, cordilleran, corpulently, counsellors, deploringly, downhillers, drollnesses, enrollments, enscrolling, ensorcelled, erosionally, fellmongers, fellmongery, fluegelhorn, flugelhorns, foretelling, groundswell, grovelingly, intolerable, intolerably, lamellicorn, landholders, larcenously, millionaire, misenrolled, mournfuller, neoliberals, nonallergic, noncellular, nonclerical, nonparallel, nonverbally, oneirically, overbilling, overcalling, overfilling, overkilling, overselling, pollenizers, pollinizers, polynuclear, precolonial, propellants, propellents, rallentando, reallotting, reenrolling, remodelling, revoltingly, ritornellos, scoundrelly, sensorially, stonewaller, tortellinis, unsoldierly, vermillions, wonderfully, worldliness, zillionaire. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 72 6F 6C 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. .-. --- .-.. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01110010 01101111 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n r o l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0072 006F 006C 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398084817878 |
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