Ingress
['ɪngres] or ['ɪnɡrɛs]
Definition
(noun.) (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse.
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Definition
(n.) The act of entering; entrance; as, the ingress of air into the lungs.
(n.) Power or liberty of entrance or access; means of entering; as, all ingress was prohibited.
(n.) The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc.
(v. i.) To go in; to enter.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Entrance, entry.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See EGRESS]
Typist: Rodger
Definition
n. entrance: power right or means of entrance.—n. Ingress′ion.
Editor: Rudolf
Examples
- My fingers clawed futilely at the unyielding portal, while my eyes sought in vain for a duplicate of the button which had given us ingress. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded throughout Nature. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The lodge-door was like a common garden-door; on one side of it were great closed gates for the ingress and egress of lorries and wagons. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Until Margaret had learnt the times of their ingress and egress, she was very unfortunate in constantly falling in with them. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I was unwilling to disturb his labours, and waited, watching the ingress and egress of the petitioners. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This tunnel and the western pass are the only modes of ingress and egress, as I have explained. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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