different between starter vs entry

English

Etymology

start +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?st??t?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?st??t?/, [?st????]
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)

Noun

starter (plural starters)

1. Someone who starts something.
   1. The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag
   2. (baseball) A starting pitcher.
2. Something that starts something.
   1. An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine
   2. A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp
   3. A yeast culture used to start a fermentation process
3. The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.

   Synonyms: entrée, hors d'oeuvre, appetizer

   Coordinate terms: main, main course, dessert

4. (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
5. A dog that rouses game.
6. (historical, Britain) A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
7. (rail transport) A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, more fully called a starter signal or starting signal.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “starter”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Tarters, ratters, restart

Danish

Noun

starter c (singular definite starteren, plural indefinite startere)

1. starter

Inflection

Noun

starter c

1. indefinite plural of start

Verb

starter

1. present of starte

Dutch

Etymology

From starten +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?r.t?r/
• Hyphenation: star?ter

Noun

starter m (plural starters, diminutive startertje n)

1. starter, one who starts; in particular
   1. first-time home buyer
   2. start-up

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English starter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta?.tœ?/

Noun

starter m (plural starters)

1. starter (person or device)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English start.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta?.te/

Verb

starter

1. (Canada) Synonym of démarrer

Conjugation

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English starter.

Noun

starter m (invariable)

1. starter (sports; car engine)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Noun

starter m

1. indefinite plural of start

Etymology 2

From starte +? -er

Noun

starter m (definite singular starteren, indefinite plural startere, definite plural starterne)

1. a starter (person who gives a starting signal)
2. a starter (starter motor)

Synonyms

• startmotor

Etymology 3

Verb

starter

1. present tense of starte

See also

• startar (Nynorsk)

References

• “starter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French starter.

Noun

starter n (plural starteri)

1. starter

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English starter.

Noun

starter m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. A device that starts an engine or a machine.

Synonyms

• anlaser

Swedish

Noun

starter

1. indefinite plural of start

Anagrams

• rastret, stretar

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