entry

• entery (chiefly archaic)

From Old French entree (feminine past participle of the verb entrer, Modern French entrée)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛntɹɪ/
• (General American, Canada) enPR: ĕnʹtrē, IPA^(key): /ˈɛntɹi/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntɹi
• Hyphenation (US): en‧try

entry (countable and uncountable, plural entries)

1. (uncountable) 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.

Ambiguity Prevention

• (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
• (record in a log): record
• (term in a matrix): element
• (item of data in a database):

• (act of entering): departure, exit, exiting, leaving
• (doorway that provides a means of entering a building): exit, way out (British)

• Tyner, yrent