different between entry vs frontage

English

Alternative forms

• entery (chiefly archaic)

Etymology

From Old French entree (feminine past participle of the verb entrer, Modern French entrée). From Latin intr?re, present active infinitive of intr?.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n?tr?, IPA^(key): /??nt?i/
• Rhymes: -?nt?i
• Hyphenation: en?try

Noun

entry (countable and uncountable, plural entries)

1. The act of entering.
2. (uncountable) Permission to enter.

   Children are allowed entry only if accompanied by an adult.

3. A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
4. (law) The act of taking possession.
5. (insurance) The start of an insurance contract.
6. (Midlands) A passageway between terraced houses that provides a means of entering a back garden or yard.
7. A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
8. A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
9. An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
10. A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.

    What does the entry for 2 August 2005 say?

11. (linear algebra) A term at any position in a matrix.

    The entry in the second row and first column of this matrix is 6.

12. The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
13. (music) The point when a musician starts to play or sing; entrance.
14. (hunting) The introduction of new hounds into a pack.
    • 1956, Baily's Hunting Directory (page 311)

      Here was an excellent entry of hounds which would have fulfilled the late Earl Bathurst's dictum that breeders should always breed from hounds rather larger than those which they expect to put on.

Usage notes

Ambiguity Prevention

Synonyms

• (act of entering): access, enter, entrance
• (permission to enter): access, admission
• (doorway that provides a means of entering a building): entrance, ingang, way in (British)
• (passageway between terraced houses): See Thesaurus:alley
• (room just inside the front door of a building): See Thesaurus:entrance hall
• (group within a church):
• (article in a dictionary or encyclopedia): article, lemma, lexeme
• (record in a log): record
• (term in a matrix): element
• (item of data in a database):

Antonyms

• (act of entering): departure, exit, exiting, leaving
• (doorway that provides a means of entering a building): exit, way out (British)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Tyner, yrent

English

Etymology

front +? -age

Noun

frontage (countable and uncountable, plural frontages)

1. The front part of a property or building that faces the street.
   • 1885, William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961, Chapter III, p. 41, [1]

     Put your little reception-room here beside the door, and get the whole width of your house frontage for a square hall, and an easy low-tread staircase running up the sides of it.

   • 1981, Wole Soyinka, Aké: The Years of Childhood, New York: Vintage, 1983, Chapter I, p. 5,

     BishopsCourt appeared sometimes to want to rival the Canon's house. It looked a house-boat despite its guard of whitewashed stones and luxuriant flowers, its wooden fretwork frontage almost wholly immersed in bougainvillaea.

2. The land between a property and the street.
3. The length of a property along a street.
4. Property or territory adjacent to a body of water.
   • 1939, Time, 12 June, 1939, [2]

     And here he brought up the entire subject of geopolitics in the Baltic, a sea which Germany in wartime must control to be able to assure herself of shipments of Swedish iron ore needed for her war factories, a sea on which Soviet Russia has a frontage of only 75 miles […]

   • 2016, The Chronicle Herald, 25 May, 2016, [3]

     It is important to keep municipally owned land, especially lake frontage, in the hands of the municipality.

5. The front part generally.
   • 1918, Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co.; Bartleby.com, 1999, [4]

     […] to the eyes of his mother and his aunt, who occupied wicker chairs at a little distance, he was almost indistinguishable except for the stiff white shield of his evening frontage.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 18, [5]

     War looks but to the frontage, the appearance.

Coordinate terms

• facade

Derived terms

• frontage road

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