different between downhill vs enter

English

Etymology

down- +? hill

Pronunciation

• (adjective, noun) IPA^(key): /?da?n?h?l/
• (adverb) IPA^(key): /?da?n?h?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Adverb

downhill (comparative more downhill, superlative most downhill)

1. Down a slope.

   Because we got to the summit of the mountain, we could only go downhill from there.

Antonyms

• uphill

Derived terms

• go downhill

Translations

Adjective

downhill (comparative further downhill, superlative furthest downhill)

1. Located down a slope or hill.
2. Going down a slope or a hill.
3. (by extension) Easy.
4. (by extension) Deteriorating, getting worse.

   After Don made those tasteless remarks, our relationship with him went downhill.

Usage notes

• "Easy" sense: comparative and superlative are usually made with more and most.
• "Deteriorating" sense: often used with the verb "go".

Antonyms

• uphill

Translations

Noun

downhill (countable and uncountable, plural downhills)

1. (uncountable) The fastest of the disciplines of alpine skiing.
2. (countable) A rapid descent of a hill in related sports, especially in alpine skiing.

Translations

Verb

downhill (third-person singular simple present downhills, present participle downhilling, simple past and past participle downhilled)

1. To take part in downhill skiing.

Spanish

Noun

downhill m (plural downhills)

1. downhill (skiing)

English

Alternative forms

• entre (archaic, before circa 1700)

Etymology

From Middle English entren, from Old French entrer, from Latin intr? (“enter”, verb), from intr? (“inside”). Has been spelled as "enter" for several centuries even in the United Kingdom, although British English and the English of many Commonwealth Countries (e.g. Australia, Canada) retain the "re" ending for many words such as centre, fibre, spectre, theatre, calibre, sombre, lustre, and litre.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??nt?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??nt?/, [?????]
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): [?????]
• Rhymes: -?nt?(r)
• Homophone: inner (pin-pen merger)
• Hyphenation: en?ter

Verb

enter (third-person singular simple present enters, present participle entering, simple past and past participle entered)

1. (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
   • Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

   • In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. […] Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.

2. (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.

3. (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
4. (transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.

5. (transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
6. (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.

   • I am pleased to notify the Congress of my intent to enter into a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the Government of Singapore.

7. (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
8. (law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
9. (transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order.

   to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

10. to make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper customs officer for estimating the duties. See entry.
11. (transitive, US, dated, historical) To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right of preemption.
12. to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).

    entered according to act of Congress

13. (transitive, obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.

    • This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings, / Shall enter me with him.

Inflection

Synonyms

• go in, ingo
• come in

Antonyms

• (intransitive) exit

Derived terms

• entrance
• breaking and entering
• enter on the boards

Translations

Noun

enter (plural enters)

1. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”)
2. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”)

Translations

Anagrams

• entre, rente, terne, treen

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, inherited from Latin integer, integrum. Compare Occitan entièr, French entier, Spanish entero. Doublet of íntegre, a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?n?te/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?n?ter/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /en?te?/

Adjective

enter (feminine entera, masculine plural enters, feminine plural enteres)

1. entire, whole, complete

   Synonym: sencer

Derived terms

• enterament
• nombre enter

Noun

enter m (plural enters)

1. whole number, integer

   Synonyms: nombre enter, nombre sencer

2. a complete lottery ticket (made up of ten dècims)

Related terms

• entregar

Further reading

• “enter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ent(?)er/, [?e?n?t?(?)e?r]
• Rhymes: -enter
• Syllabification: en?ter

Noun

enter

1. Enter (computer key)

Declension

French

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *impt?re, contraction of *imput?, imput?re (“I graft”) (unrelated to imput? (“I reckon, attribute”)), from inpotus (attested in Salic Law), from Ancient Greek ??????? (émphutos, “planted”). The Greek word may have actually reached Gaul through traders at the Mediterranean coastal colonies before the Roman conquest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.te/

Verb

enter

1. (agriculture) to graft
2. to implant

Conjugation

Further reading

• “enter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• entre, entré
• rente, renté
• terne

Gaulish

Alternative forms

• entar

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *enter (“between”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?enter (“between”). Cognates include Celtiberian entara (“between”), Old Irish eter (“between”) (Irish idir (“between, both”)), Latin inter (“between”), Sanskrit ?????? (antár, “between, within, into”), Oscan ???????????????????? (anter, “between”), and Old High German untar (“between”).

Preposition

enter

1. between, among

References

• Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, published 2003, ?ISBN, page 163.
• Ranko Matasovi?, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic, published 2009, ?ISBN, page 117.

German

Verb

enter

1. inflection of entern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /??n.t?r/

Noun

enter m inan

1. (computing) Enter (key on a computer keyboard)

Declension