has particulars: arch, archway, door, doorway, room access, threshold, gateway, hatchway, opening, scuttle, pithead, portal, porte-cochere, servant's entrance, service door, service entrance, stage door, vomitory

Derived form verb enter₁

entry(n = noun.act) entering, entrance, incoming, ingress - the act of entering; "she made a grand entrance"

is a kind of arrival

has particulars: incursion, intrusion, irruption, entree, enrollment, enrolment, registration, penetration, admission, admittance

Derived form verb enter₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

entry, n. [OE. entree, entre, F. entrée, fr. entrer to enter. See Enter, and cf. Entrée.].

The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking. [1913 Webster]
The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item. [1913 Webster]
"A notary made an entry of this act." [1913 Webster]
That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine. [1913 Webster]
"A straight, long entry to the temple led." [1913 Webster]
The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license 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. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n., 5. [1913 Webster]
The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them. Burrill. [1913 Webster]

Bill of entry. See under Bill. -- Double entry, Single entry. See Bookkeeping. -- Entry clerk (Com.), a clerk who makes the original entries of transactions in a business. -- Writ of entry (Law), a writ issued for the purpose of obtaining possession of land from one who has unlawfully entered and continues in possession. Bouvier.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

entry, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a the act or an instance of going or coming in. b the coming of an actor on stage. c ceremonial entrance.
2 liberty to go or come in.
3 a a place of entrance; a door, gate, etc. b a lobby.
4 Brit. a passage between buildings.
5 the mouth of a river.
6 a an item entered in a diary, list, account-book, etc. b the recording of this.
7 a a person or thing competing in a race, contest, etc. b a list of competitors.
8 the start or resumption of music for a particular instrument in an ensemble.
9 Law the act of taking possession.
10 Bridge a the transfer of the lead to one's partner's hand. b a card providing this.

Idiom

entry form an application form for a competition. entry permit an authorization to enter a particular country etc.

Etymology

ME f. OF entree ult. f. L intrare ENTER

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THESAURUS

entry

access, account, adit, admission, admittance, adversaria, adversary, aide-memoire, air lock, annotation, approach, arrival, booking, candidate, cataloging, chronicling, coming in, competitor, contestant, corridor, credit, debit, docket, door, doorway, double entry, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entrance, entrance hall, entranceway, entrant, entree, entryway, favorite, footnote, foyer, galilee, gangplank, gangway, hall, impanelment, import, importation, importing, in, income, incoming, indexing, infiltration, ingoing, ingress, ingression, inlet, input, inscribing, inscription, insertion, insinuation, intake, interpenetration, introduction, introgression, intrusion, inventorying, item, jotting, leakage, listing, lobby, logging, marginal note, marginalia, matriculation, means of access, memo, memoir, memorandum, memorial, minute, minutes, mudder, narthex, notation, note, open arms, open door, opening, opponent, participant, passage, passageway, penetration, percolation, plate horse, plater, player, pole horse, pony, portal, portico, posting, propylaeum, race horse, racer, reception, record, record keeping, recordation, recording, register, registration, registry, reminder, rival, scholia, scholium, seepage, single entry, stable, stake horse, staker, starter, steeplechaser, stoa, string, tabulation, threshold, vestibule, way, way in

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ROGET THESAURUS

entry

Beginning

N beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation, introduction, alpha, initial, inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the curtain, maiden speech, outbreak, onset, brunt, initiative, move, first move, narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge, fresh start, new departure, origin, source, rise, bud, germ, egg, rudiment, genesis, primogenesis, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy, start, inception, creation, starting point, dawn, evolution, title-page, head, heading, van, caption, fatihah, entrance, entry, inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch, portal, portico, propylon, door, gate, gateway, postern, wicket, threshold, vestibule, propylaeum, skirts, border, first stage, first blush, first glance, first impression, first sight, rudiments, elements, outlines, grammar, alphabet, ABC, beginning, initial, initiatory, initiative, inceptive, introductory, incipient, proemial, inaugural, inchoate, inchoative, embryonic, rudimental, primogenial, primeval, primitive, primordial, aboriginal, natal, nascent, first, foremost, leading, maiden, begun, just begun, at the beginning, in the beginning first, in the first place, imprimis, first and foremost, in limine, in the bud, in embryo, in its infancy, from the beginning, from its birth, ab initio, ab ovo, ab incunabilis, ab origine, let's get going!, let's get this show on the road!, up and at 'em!, aller Anfang ist schwer, dimidium facti qui coepit habet, omnium rerum principia parva sunt.

Ingress

N ingress, entrance, entry, introgression, influx, intrusion, inroad, incursion, invasion, irruption, ingression, penetration, interpenetration, illapse, import, infiltration, immigration, admission, insinuation, insertion, inlet, way in, mouth, door, barway, path, conduit, immigrant, incoming.

Record

N record, trace, vestige, relic, remains, scar, cicatrix, footstep, footmark, footprint, pug, track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste, monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement, obelisk, pillar, column, monolith, memorial, memento, testimonial, medal, commemoration, record, note, minute, register, registry, roll, cartulary, diptych, Domesday book, catalogue raisonne, entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket, notch, muniment, deed, document, deposition, proces verbal, affidavit, certificate, notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book, portfolio, pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings, gazette, gazetteer, newspaper, daily, magazine, almanac, almanack, calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger, cashbook, petty cashbook, professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article, archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book, statistics, compte rendu, Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of, Hansard's Debates, chronicle, annals, legend, history, biography, Congressional Records, registration, registry, enrollment, inrollment, tabulation, entry, booking, signature, recorder, journalism, recording, tape recording, videotape, compact disk, floppy disk, diskette, hard disk, Winchester disk, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, on record, exegi monumentum aere perennium, read their history in a nation's eyes, records that defy the tooth of time, record, trace, vestige, relic, remains, scar, cicatrix, footstep, footmark, footprint, pug, track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste, monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement, obelisk, pillar, column, monolith, memorial, memento, testimonial, medal, commemoration, record, note, minute, register, registry, roll, cartulary, diptych, Domesday book, catalogue raisonne, entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket, notch, muniment, deed, document, deposition, proces verbal, affidavit, certificate, notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book, portfolio, pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings, gazette, gazetteer, newspaper, daily, magazine, almanac, almanack, calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger, cashbook, petty cashbook, professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article, archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book, statistics, compte rendu, Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of, Hansard's Debates, chronicle, annals, legend, history, biography, Congressional Records, registration, registry, enrollment, inrollment, tabulation, entry, booking, signature, recorder, journalism, recording, tape recording, videotape, compact disk, floppy disk, diskette, hard disk, Winchester disk, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, on record, exegi monumentum aere perennium, read their history in a nation's eyes, records that defy the tooth of time.

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