'Entry' definitions:
Definition of 'entry'
(from WordNet)
noun
An item inserted in a written record
noun
The act of beginning something new; "they looked forward to the debut of their new product line" [syn: introduction, debut, first appearance, launching, unveiling, entry]
noun
A written record of a commercial transaction [syn: entry, accounting entry, ledger entry]
noun
Something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition); "several of his submissions were rejected by publishers"; "what was the date of submission of your proposal?" [syn: submission, entry]
noun
Something that provides access (to get in or get out); "they waited at the entrance to the garden"; "beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral" [syn: entrance, entranceway, entryway, entry, entree]
noun
Definition of 'Entry'
From: GCIDE
- Entry \En"try\, n.; pl. Entries. [OE. entree, entre, F. entr['e]e, fr. entrer to enter. See Enter, and cf. Entr['e]e.]
- 1. 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]
- 2. 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. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Com.) 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]
- 5. (Law) (a) The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them. (b) A putting upon record in proper form and order. (c) The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary. --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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'entry'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Entry'
- Entries,
- Bill of entry,
- Double entry,
- Entry clerk,
- Port of entry,
- Single entry,
- Writ of entry,
- accounting entry,
- adjusting entry,
- credit entry,
- debit entry,
- dictionary entry,
- entry word,
- ledger entry,
- lexical entry,
- notebook entry,
- point of entry,
- right of entry,
- Bookkeeping by double entry,
- Bookkeeping by single entry,
- Forcible entry and detainer,
- main entry word,
- double-entry bookkeeping,
- right of re-entry,
- single-entry bookkeeping