different between enter vs intromission

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

English

Etymology

From Latin intro-', "into", + mission, "sending", from Latin missio, from perfect passive participle missus, "sent", from verb mittere, "send", + noun of action -io. Commonly used to refer to the instant at which sexual intercourse begins, when the penis first slides into (enters) the vagina.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

intromission (countable and uncountable, plural intromissions)

1. the state of being allowed to enter; admittance
2. the act of allowing to enter; admission
3. putting one thing into another; insertion
   • 1888, Henry James, The Reverberator.

     "Your father has told me all about it. Did you ever hear of anything so ridiculous?"
     "All about what?—all about what?" said Delia, whose attempt to represent happy ignorance seemed likely to be spoiled by an intromission of ferocity. She might succeed in appearing ignorant, but she could scarcely succeed in appearing happy.

4. copulation: normally refers to the first moment of initial entry of a penis into a vagina, mouth or anus.
5. (law, Scotland) An intermeddling with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority.

Translations

Related terms

• intromit
• intromittent
• intromittent organ
• intromissive