Entrance
['entr(ə)ns] or ['ɛntrəns]
Definition
(noun.) the act of entering; 'she made a grand entrance'.
(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'.
(noun.) a movement into or inward.
(verb.) put into a trance.
Inputed by Kelly--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.
(n.) Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.
(n.) The passage, door, or gate, for entering.
(n.) The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business.
(n.) The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.
(n.) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
(n.) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
(v. t.) To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.
(v. t.) To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.
Editor: Ozzie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Ingress.[2]. Entry, inlet, mouth, avenue, passage, door, gate, portal.[3]. Beginning, commencement, initiation, introduction.
v. a. Charm, enchant, enrapture, fascinate, captivate, delight, bewitch, ravish, electrify, throw into ecstasies.
Inputed by Kelly
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ENRAPTURE]
SYN:Introduction, opening, entry, inlet, porch, admission, penetration, avenue,portal, ingress, adit
ANT:Exit, egress, departure, debouchure
Editor: Myra
Definition
n. act of entering: power or right to enter: the place for entering the door: the beginning.—n. En′trant one who or that which enters.
v.t. to put into a trance: to fill with rapturous delight.—n. Entrance′ment state of trance or of excessive joy.—p.adj. Entranc′ing charming transporting.
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Examples
- I saw her as I came in; she was standing in the entrance. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Anselmo asked Fernando, the two of them standing at the entrance of the big rocks in the dark. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Quietly she stole toward the entrance and glanced within. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The entrance of the Grants and Crawfords was a favourable epoch. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The box into which the harlequin takes refuge, and which appears to be empty when Pierrot or Cassandra lifts the curtain that shields its entrance, is also a sort of magic cabinet. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The dull crackling noise noticed in the ear when one swallows is due to the entrance and exit of air in the tube. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- You remind me, then, of a young she wild creature, new caught, untamed, viewing with a mixture of fire and fear the first entrance of the breaker-in. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- First he had the entrances to the streets blocked off with carts as though to organize the plaze for a _capea_. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Several times we passed the entrances to other chambers similarly peopled, and twice again we were compelled to cross directly through them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It was at the right side of the corridor, which ran on, probably, to other entrances to the pile above. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The walls about the ledge were pierced with a number of entrances to dimly lighted passageways. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Modern drawbridges across rivers, canals, the entrances of docks, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They made no noise of any kind, and most of them tilted their heads back and closed their eyes, entranced with a sort of devotional ecstacy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The sight of beauty entranced me, and attractive manners in man or woman won my entire confidence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul, and lifted it to heaven. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- They shed no entrancing odors --just the contrary. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Sidney