different between rush vs enter

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Homophone: Rush
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English risshe, rusch, risch, from Old English rysc, risc, from Proto-West Germanic *ruskij?, borrowed from Latin r?scum (“butcher's broom”) + *-j? (animal and plant suffix). Cognates include West Frisian risk, Dutch rus (“bulrush”), Norwegian Bokmål rusk, dialectal Norwegian ryskje (“hair-grass”).

Noun

rush (plural rushes)

1. Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
2. The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
3. The merest trifle; a straw.
   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull

     John Bull's friendship is not worth a rush.

4. A wick.

Synonyms

• (plant of the genus Juncus): juncus

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps from Middle English ruschen, russchen (“to rush, startle, make a loud rushing noise”), from Old English hrys?an (“to jolt, startle”), from Proto-Germanic *hurskijan? (“to startle, drive”), from *hurskaz (“fast, rapid, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ers- (“to run, hurry”).

Cognate with Old High German hurscan (“to speed, accelerate”), Old English horsc (“quick, quick-witted, clever”).

Noun

rush (plural rushes)

1. A sudden forward motion.
   • 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers

     A gentleman of his train spurred up his horse, and, with a violent rush, severed him from the duke.
2. A surge.

3. General haste.

4. A rapid, noisy flow.

5. (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
6. (video games) The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.

   Synonym: zerg

7. (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.

8. (American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.

9. A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.

10. (US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.

11. (US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
12. (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rush (third-person singular simple present rushes, present participle rushing, simple past and past participle rushed)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
   • c. 1683, Robert West, The further Exmaination of Robert West of the Middle-Temple, Barrister at Law

     A party of men […] shoud be ready to rush out; and upon the noise of the first shot immediately run down to the Gate and break in.
2. (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
3. (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
4. (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
5. (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.

6. (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
7. (military) To swiftly attack without warning.
8. (video games, slang, transitive) To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.

   Synonym: zerg

9. (transitive or intransitive, US, college) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing or initiation in order to join a fraternity or sorority.
10. (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.

11. (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
12. (US, slang, dated) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:rush (hurry)

Derived terms

• downrush
• rushing

Translations

Adjective

rush (not comparable)

1. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

Usage notes

Used only before a noun.

See also

• rushes

Further reading

• Juncaceae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rush_(football) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Hurs, RHUs, Suhr

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English rush

Noun

rush n (definite singular rushet, indefinite plural rush, definite plural rusha or rushene)

1. a rush (Etymology 2)

Derived terms

• gullrush
• rushtid

References

• “rush” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “rush” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English rush

Noun

rush n (definite singular rushet, indefinite plural rush, definite plural rusha)

1. a rush (Etymology 2)

Derived terms

• gullrush
• rushtid

References

• “rush” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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