Entered

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Enter \En"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Entered}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Entering}.] [OE. entren, enteren, F. entrer, fr. L. intrare,
     fr. intro inward, contr. fr. intero (sc. loco), fr. inter in
     between, between. See {Inter-}, {In}, and cf. {Interior}.]
     1. To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass
        within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to


        pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door,
        etc.; the river enters the sea.
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              That darksome cave they enter.        --Spenser.
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              I, . . . with the multitude of my redeemed,
              Shall enter heaven, long absent.      --Milton.
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     2. To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a
        member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an
        army.
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     3. To engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the
        legal profession, the book trade, etc.
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     4. To pass within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to
        commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new
        dispensation.
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     5. To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put
        in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a
        knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a
        boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.
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     6. To inscribe; to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name, or
        a date, in a book, or a book in a catalogue; to enter the
        particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship
        or of merchandise at the customhouse.
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     7. (Law)
        (a) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual
            possession of them.
        (b) To place in regular form before the court, usually in
            writing; to put upon record in proper from and order;
            as, to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment.
            --Burrill.
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     8. To make report of (a vessel or her cargo) at the
        customhouse; to submit a statement of (imported goods),
        with the original invoices, to the proper officer of the
        customs for estimating the duties. See {Entry}, 4.
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     9. To file or inscribe upon the records of the land office
        the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public
        land) in order to entitle a person to a right pf
        pre["e]mption. [U.S.] --Abbott.
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     10. To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a
         book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act
         of Congress."
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     11. To initiate; to introduce favorably. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "entered":
     booked, cadastral, cataloged, documented, down, enrolled,
     enumerated, filed, indexed, inscribed, inventorial, itemized,
     legal, listed, logged, minuted, of record, official, on file,
     on record, on the books, posted, programmed, recorded, registered,
     scheduled, tabulated, tallied, written down