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ENTERING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of entering
Example:
she made a grand entrance
Synonyms:
entering; entrance; entry; incoming; ingress
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("entering" is a kind of...):
arrival (the act of arriving at a certain place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "entering"):
incursion (the act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers))
intrusion (entrance by force or without permission or welcome)
irruption (a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in)
entree (an entrance, especially a theatrical entrance onto a stage or as if onto a stage)
enrollment; enrolment; registration (the act of enrolling)
penetration (the act of entering into or through something)
admission; admittance (the act of admitting someone to enter)
Derivation:
enter (come on stage)
enter (to come or go into)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A movement into or inward
Synonyms:
entering; entrance
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("entering" is a kind of...):
change of location; travel (a movement through space that changes the location of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "entering"):
encroachment; intrusion; invasion (any entry into an area not previously occupied)
Derivation:
enter (to come or go into)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb enter
Context examples:
The process helps keep this greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere.
(Major deep carbon sink linked to microbes at volcanic island chains, National Science Foundation)
"Presumably, ossified particles originate during the processes of bone marrow blood vessel ossification and are capable of entering into the peripheral circulation," the team writes.
(Bone-Like Particles Found Travelling through Human Bloodstream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
After entering tumor cells, the active moiety camptothecin is slowly released from mureletecan via hydrolysis of the ester linkage.
(Mureletecan, NCI Thesaurus)
The identifier of the subsequent trial that the patient is entering.
(Next Trial Identification, NCI Thesaurus)
L-leucyl-L-leucine methyl ester (LLME) is a lysosomotropic agent entering cells via receptor-mediated endocytosis.
(L-Leucyl-L-Leucine Methyl Ester, NCI Thesaurus)
A state in which there is a reduced amount of air entering the pulmonary alveoli.
(Hypoventilation, NCI Thesaurus)
The G2/M DNA damage checkpoint prevents the cell from entering mitosis (M phase) if the genome is damaged.
(G2/M Checkpoint Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The act of entering into or through something.
(Penetration, NCI Thesaurus)
At first I attempted to prevent her but she persisted, and entering the room where it lay, hastily examined the neck of the victim, and clasping her hands exclaimed, ‘O God!
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
You will recollect that Mortimer Tregennis, in describing the episode of his last visit to his brother’s house, remarked that the doctor on entering the room fell into a chair?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
