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entering

entering

2 1.3
The act of going into a place
  • noun
  • /ˈɛntərɪŋ/
translation icon : entrada
  • The entering of new members into the club will boost our activities.
  • the entering class
  • the entering students

The subscriber growth stalling after entering the nasty world of politics.

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Examples

  • In most of the introductory courses examined here, the majority of the entering students were enrolled in three or fewer courses.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Obviously, these behaviors are not the entering behaviors that support a dedicated research effort.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Members go to the club website, click, and go to the entering process.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Brief work with three deep forest groups was made possible in each case by my entering with someone they trusted.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Please use the manual doors for your entering and exiting needs.

    Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

  • At Harvard and Johns Hopkins, women total 53 percent of the entering class.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Although some students will outperform their entering credentials and some students will underperform theirs, most students will perform in the range that their entering credentials suggest.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Of the entering freshmen from Texas high schools, 85 percent were admitted under HB 588.

    Blog text (19)

  • In all institutions except Fort Leavenworth, we surveyed the entire entering student population, who returned their questionnaires anonymously at the school, often to a box in an administrative office.

    Academic text (2000)

  • College by college, the entire entering classes ranged from 204 to 1,187 students (M = 600, SD = 228).

    Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

arrival
vsentering
324 1.0

Coming to a place, often at the end of a journey

emphasizes the act of going into a place regardless of travel end
entrance
vsentering
150 2.1

An act of coming into a place or joining an activity

focuses on movement into a place more than getting involved
admission
vsentering
149 3.4

Permission to enter a place or organization, often after a decision

focuses on the movement into a place rather than permission
entry
vsentering
125 1.3

An act of going into a place or starting to appear

is limited to the physical act of going into a place
admittance
vsentering
14 5.3

Permission to enter a place or join a group

is the physical movement into a place, not the act of permitting it
ingress
vsentering
  • Formal
3 7.9

An act of entering a place, a way to enter, or the right to enter

describes the movement itself without implying permission

Antonyms

exit
129 1.0

The act of leaving a place or situation

Compounds

breaking and entering
36 5.6

To illegally enter a building by force to steal things

How Inward

infalling
  • Specialized
9.0
entering
2 1.3
incoming
80 3.2
approaching
11 2.7

Surface Forms

entering singular
enterings plural

Morphology

entering = enter (transparent) = enter + ing

The noun is a simple deverbal -ing nominalization meaning 'the act or process of entering,' which is directly derivable from the verb.

Etymology

Entering comes from the simple verb enter, which goes back to the Latin word intrare meaning 'to go into' — imagine walking through a door into a room. That's why entering means the act of going into a place, and you can see the same root in the word entrance.