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entry
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)
- The act of entering.
- (uncountable) Permission to enter.
- Children are allowed entry only if accompanied by an adult.
- A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
- (law) The act of taking possession.
- (insurance) The start of an insurance contract.
- (Midlands) A passageway between terraced houses that provides a means of entering a back garden or yard.
- 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
- A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
- An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
- 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?
- (linear algebra) A term at any position in a matrix.
- The entry in the second row and first column of this matrix is 6.
- 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.
- (music) The point when a musician starts to play or sing; entrance.
- (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.
- 1956, Baily's Hunting Directory (page 311)
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
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subject
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English subget, from Old French suget, from Latin subiectus (“lying under or near, adjacent, also subject, exposed”), as a noun, subiectus (“a subject, an inferior”), subiectum (“the subject of a proposition”), past participle of subici? (“throw, lay, place”), from sub (“under, at the foot of”) + iaci? (“throw, hurl”), as a calque of Ancient Greek ??????????? (hupokeímenon).
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?b?j?kt, IPA(key): /?s?b.d??kt/
- (also) (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?b.d??kt/
- Hyphenation: sub?ject
Adjective
subject (comparative more subject, superlative most subject)
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something.
- c. 1678 (written), 1682 (published), John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe
- All human things are subject to decay.
- c. 1678 (written), 1682 (published), John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
- , Book I
- Esau was never subject to Jacob.
- , Book I
Translations
Etymology 2
From Latin subiectus (“a subject, an inferior”), subiectum (“the subject of a proposition”), past participle of subici? (“throw, lay, place”), from sub (“under, at the foot of”) + iaci? (“throw, hurl”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?b?j?kt, IPA(key): /?s?b.d??kt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?b.d??kt/
- Hyphenation: sub?ject
Noun
subject (plural subjects)
- (grammar) In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.
- An actor; one who takes action.
- The subjects and objects of power.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- Make choice of a subject beautifull and noble, which […] shall […] afford […] an ample field of matter wherein to expatiate itself.
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- 1878, William Smith Rockstro, "Subject" in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians
- The earliest known form of subject is the ecclesiastical cantus firmus, or plain song.
- 1878, William Smith Rockstro, "Subject" in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians
- A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
- 1748, Conyers Middleton, Life of Cicero
- Writers of particular lives […] are apt to be prejudiced in favour of their subject.
- 1748, Conyers Middleton, Life of Cicero
- (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
- (logic) That of which something is stated.
- (mathematics) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
Synonyms
- (discussion): matter, topic
Derived terms
- between-subjects
- subject matter
- subject title
- subjective
- within-subjects
Translations
See also
- object
- predicate
Etymology 3
From Medieval Latin subiect?, iterative of subici? (“throw, lay, place”), from sub (“under, at the foot of”) + iaci? (“throw, hurl”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?b-j?kt?, IPA(key): /s?b?d??kt/, /s?b?d??kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
Verb
subject (third-person singular simple present subjects, present participle subjecting, simple past and past participle subjected)
- (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
- I came here to buy souvenirs, not to be subjected to a tirade of abuse!
- (transitive) To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave.
Synonyms
- underbring
Translations
Further reading
- subject in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- subject in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- subject at OneLook Dictionary Search
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