enter
enter Lexical Profile
enter Game Scores & Validity
• verb
To come or go into a particular place, room, or area.
"Please knock before you enter the office."
To register or become a participant in a competition, examination, institution, or profession.
"More than five hundred runners entered the annual city marathon."
To write, type, or input information, figures, or details into a book, computer system, or formal record.
"The clerk carefully entered the daily sales figures into the spreadsheet."
To begin or become involved in a particular state, stage, period, or activity.
"The negotiations have now entered a critical phase."
To submit a formal statement, plea, or claim to a court of law or official body.
"The defendant entered a plea of not guilty during the arraignment."
• noun
A key on a computer keyboard used to execute a command, submit form data, or start a new line of text.
"Type your password into the field and press enter to log in."
Word Nuance & Usage
When referring to physical movement into a place, 'enter' is used transitively without a preposition (e.g., 'she entered the room'); by contrast, 'enter into' is reserved for abstract agreements, negotiations, or discussions (e.g., 'they entered into a contract').
• Rhymes for enter
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the 13th century from Old French entrer, which derives from Latin intrare ('to go into'), formed from intra ('inside, within').