entry

entry
  (ˈɛntrɪ)
  Forms: 4–7 entre, 4–6 -ee, 6–7 entrey, -ie, -ye, 6 entery (-ie), 5– entry.
  [ME. entre(e, a. Fr. entrée, corresp. to Pr. intrada, Sp., Pg. entrada, It. intrata:—late L. intrāta, f. intrāre (Fr. entrer) to enter.]
  1. a. The action of coming or going in; the coming (of an actor) upon a stage; the entering into or invading (a country), etc. In phrases, to make († have) entry. Also fig.

c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 179 Now has R. entre, and Acres taken es. c 1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 2961 Als Sir Ywaine made entre. 1475 Caxton Jason 96 [He] thought..of what purpoos he mighte make to her his entree. 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 723 The king of Englandes entrie and invasions. 1594 T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 507 Their opinion touching the birth of soules, their entrie into the bodie. 1746–7 Hervey Medit. (1818) 129 No actor on a stage.. can make a more regular entry, or a more punctual exit! 1833 Herschel Astron. viii. 258 The entry and egress of the planet's center [across the sun's disc]. 1853 Kane Grinnell Exp. xiii. (1856) 99 Since our entry into the ice. 1866 Crump Banking x. 226 The first entry of gold into the mint for coinage purposes.

fig. 1587 Fleming Cont. Holinshed III. 1550/2 Then began such an entrie of acquaintance, knowledge, love..betwixt them. 1604 James I Counterbl. (Arb.) 99 The first entry thereof [i.e. of Tobacco taking] among vs. 1690 Temple Ess. Learn. Wks. 1731 I. 167 Very soon after the Entry of Learning upon the Scene of Christendom. 1833 Chalmers Const. Man (1835) I. iii. 155 Finds entry into the mind.

  b. The ceremonial entrance (of a king, etc.).

1534 Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) O vj, Thus this emperour adressed his entre with his capitaynes. a 1714 Burnet Own Time (1766) I. 27 His entry and coronation were managed with such magnificence that the country suffered much for it. 1845 S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. III. 261 Their solemn entry into the imperial city.

  † c. The action of boarding (a ship). Obs.

1591 Raleigh Last Fight Rev. (Arb.) 21 To make any more assaults or entries.

  † d. ? The paying of formal visits, ‘making calls’. Obs. rare.

1755 T. Amory Mem. (1769) I. 219 She can even pass the Sunday evenings away at cards and in visiting, and waste at play and entry the hours of the sacred day. Ibid. II. 81 They renounced custom and false notions, the propensities and entries, the noise and splendor of the world.

  e. The beginning of the part of a performer or instrument in a canon or other musical composition; also attrib. in entry sign.

1879 Grove Dict. Mus. I. 390/2 Those who can stand the enormous strain which is implied in the recollection of every nuance and the exact entry of every instrument in a long and complicated work. 1893 J. S. Shedlock tr. Riemann's Dict. Mus. 220/1 Entry Signs are the marks in a canon (of which only one part is written out) for the entry of the imitating parts... The sign which a conductor gives to a player or singer to come in after a long pause is also called an Entry Sign. 1965 New Statesman 9 Apr. 586/2 The Mahler performance..had all the marks of under-rehearsal..and every now and again a fluffed entry.

  f. In Bridge, (a card providing) an opportunity to transfer the lead to one's partner or to one's dummy. Also Comb., as entry-creating, entry-killing ppl. adjs.

1884 ‘Cavendish’ Whist (ed. 14) 135 In case his only card of entry in that suit should be an honour, not an ace. 1906 W. Dalton ‘Saturday’ Bridge ii. 53 When you hold six or more cards of a black suit, thoroughly established, and one other card of entry, No Trumps should always be declared at the score of love. 1934 E. Culbertson in Amer. Speech IX. 10/1 Contract Bridge terms that are almost an indispensable part of every player's vocabulary..such as..entry. 1939 N. de V. Hart Bridge Players' Bedside Bk. 149 An entry-killing play which consists in refusing to take a trick in an opponent's suit until the other opponent is exhausted of the suit. 1959 Listener 19 Mar. 530/2 The ace of spades still provided an entry to the dummy. Ibid. 17 Sept. 462/1 There are countless entry-killing and entry-creating plays.

  2. Law. a. The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on the same.

1491 Act 7 Hen. VII, c. 16 §1 Thentre, season and possession of your seid Subgiet..into all the premisses. 1540 ― 32 Hen. VIII, c. 2 §2 No..person..shall..maintein any..writ o[f] entry vpon disseason done to any of his auncestors. a 1626 Bacon Max. & Uses Com. Law 23 Where a man findeth a piece of land that no other possesseth..and he that so findeth it doth enter, this entry gaineth a property. 1742 Fielding Jos. Andrews i. xii, He'd warrant he soon suffered a recovery by writ of entry. 1817–8 Cobbett Resid. U.S. (1822) 271 Mr. Birkbeck informs me he has made entry of a large tract of land. 1866 Kingsley Herew. I. xvi. 298, I advise you as a friend not to make entry on those lands.

  b. One of the acts essential to complete the offence of burglary.

1769 Blackstone Comm. IV. 227 As for the [burglarious] entry, any the least degree of it, with any part of the body, or with an instrument held in the hand, is sufficient; as, to step over the threshold.

  † 3. a. A dance introduced between the parts of an entertainment; an interlude. Cf. Fr. entrée or entrée de ballet (Littré). b. Music. = entrée 3.

1651 Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 276 A masque at Court, where the French King in person danced five entries. 1675 Shadwell Psyche i. Wks. 1720 II. 16 Then an Entry danc'd by four Sylvans. 1728 R. North Memoirs Musick (1846) 102 The Entrys of Baptist ever were and will be valued as most stately and compleat harmony.

  4. transf. † a. The entering upon an office; the accession of a sovereign. Obs. † b. The becoming a member of an institution. Obs.

c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 310 For symonye don in here entre. 1389 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 107 To make y⊇ paiement of his couenauns for his entre. c 1500 Blowbol's Test. 45 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 94 Of so grete reverens werre the universities, That men toke entrie knelyng on their knees. 1576 Thanksgiv. in Liturg. Serv. Q. Eliz. (1847) 548 The day of the Queens Majestys entry to her reign.

  c. The initial training of young hounds (cf. enter v. 18 b); now, more commonly collect., young hounds who are being entered. Also transf., the younger generation (see also quot. 1946).

1845 W. Youatt Dog iii. 83 There must always be a little flesh in hand for the sick, for bitches with their whelps, and for the entry of young hounds. 1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Sports ii. iv. 124/2 Your chance of good sport through this season and the next depends more upon your young entry than upon the old draft-hounds. Ibid. 125/1 In order to have an opportunity of rating the young ones for speaking to ‘riot’, while under the fresh recollections of the encouragement which they have received in their entry to their own particular game. 1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 315/2 The young entry are sure to run riot. 1897 Encycl. Sport I. 543/2 It is better to keep steadily on, confining hounds as much as possible to covert, or the entry will forget what they have learned. 1899 Somerville & ‘Ross’ Irish R.M. vi. 130 Dr. Jerome Hickey was having a stirring time with the young entry and the rabbit-holes. 1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages vii. 101 Thank God that we have a man like him among the young entry. 1946 M. C. Self Horseman's Encycl. 453 Hounds are ‘entered’ when they are first put into the pack during the cubbing season. Young riders are ‘entered’ by being brought by their fond parents to the covert side. Both are known as ‘Young Entry’.

  † 5. The right or opportunity of entering; admission, entrance. Obs.

a 1300 Cursor M. 13079 Þe king þam lete haf fre entre. c 1325 Coer de L. 1884 The galyes..had nigh won entrie. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 272 Now has þe Baliol a stounde lorn issu & entre. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xi. 118 Þanne may alle Cristene come..and cleyme þere entre. 1491 Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) ii. 195 b/2, The entre of the cyte of Athenes forsayd was graunted unto hym. 1574 tr. Littleton's Tenures 15 a, Yet shall hee have free entree, egresse, and regresse in the same house. 1615 Chapman Odyss. i. 191 In this discourse, he first saw Pallas standing, Unbidden entry.

  6. a. The coming in (of a period of time); the entrance upon (a journey, work, etc.). Obs. exc. U.S.

a 1300 Cursor M. 13259 To nazareth he went again..Tua dais in aueril entre. c 1400 Destr. Troy 2248 What proffet any prowes with a prowde entre, To begyn, any goode, on a ground febill. c 1450 Merlin xiii. 191 A-boute the entre of may. 1535 Gardiner in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. xxx. 212, I required your advice in mine entry and beginning thereof. 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 618 When the Duke of Yorke had thus framed the entry into hys long entended jorney. 1587 Harrison England ii. vi. (1877) i. 166 Some making their entrie [at supper] with egs. 1655–60 Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 555/2 Not to stay longer in the entry. 1907 Springfield Weekly Republ. 24 Oct. 1 An act of the Legislature which became operative with the entry of the month.

  † b. The preface or opening words (of a book, etc.). Obs.

1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 369 Alle þat byfor es wryten..Es bot als an entre of þis buk. 1581 Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 52 The Poet..for hys entry, calleth the..Muses to inspire into him a good inuention. 1659 Pearson Creed (1839) 225 And thus even in the entry of the Article we meet with the incarnation.

  7. concr. a. That by which any place open or closed is entered; a door; a gate; an approach or passage to a country, etc.; the mouth of a river. In a dwelling, an entrance-hall; lobby. Also fig.

1297 R. Glouc. (1724) 158 Bute entre on þer nys, And þat ys vp on harde roches. 1340–70 Alisaunder 908 Enforced were þe entres with egre men fele. c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 1059 Her [the hive's] entre tourne it faire upon the southe. 1535 Coverdale Acts xii. 14 She opened not the entrye for gladnes. 1580 North Plutarch (1676) 669 It was a passage and entrey into the Countrey of Laconia. 1598–1600 Hakluyt Voy., At the entrie of which riuer he stayed his course. 1605 Shakes. Macb. ii. ii. 66, I heare a knocking at the South entry. a 1652 Brome Eng. Moor ii. ii, Her's a letter thrown into the entry. 1727 Swift Descr. Morning, Prepar'd to scrub the entry and the stairs. 1826 T. J. Wharton in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem. I. 156 He tells truly who signed that paper in the entry or porch.

fig. 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 1763 Þat es entre and way..Til lyf or ded. c 1386 Chaucer Melib. ¶73 Werre at his bygynnyng hath so greet an entre and so large, that every wight may entre. a 1450 Knt. de la Tour 14 Humilite is the furst entre and wey of frenship. 1570 Billingsley Euclid xi. Introd. 312 The first booke was a ground, and a necessarye entrye to all the rest following. 1855 O. W. Holmes Poems 191 Gone, like tenants that quit without warning, Down the back entry of time.

  ¶ A sense ‘innermost part, sanctuary’ has been erroneously inferred from the following passage, in which Chaucer confuses L. adytum with aditus.

c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. ii. i. 30 Sentences..drawen oute of myne entre, þat is to seyne out of myn informacioun.

  b. transf. A passage between houses, whether or not leading to an open space beyond; an alley. Now only dial. † Also, an avenue, approach to a house (obs.).

c 1400 Destr. Troy 1600 All maister men þat on molde dwellis, Onestly enabit in entris aboute. 1632 Heywood 2nd Pt. Iron Age iii. Wks. 1874 III. 391 Through many a corner and blind entries mouth. a 1639 W. Whately Prototypes i. xxi. (1640) 260 A dark entrie leading to the glorious palace of glory. 1694 Phillips Life Milton xx, A pretty Garden House..at the end of an Entry. 1792 Wolcott (P. Pindar) Odes Kien Long Wks. 1812 III. 155 The souls of many Kings are vulgar Entries..A long, dark, dangerous, dreary Way, past finding. 1866 R. Chambers Ess. Ser. i. 129 A chimney-sweep..has been established for years in one of the murky entries. Mod. The entrance to these houses [in Birmingham] is not in the front which faces the street, but in the ‘entry’ [i.e. passage common to two adjoining houses].

  c. Hunting. (See quots.)

1630 J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. i. 93/1 For what Necromanticke spells are, Rut, Vault, Slot, Pores, and Entryes. 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Hart, Let him draw into Covert as he passes observing the size of entries. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. ii. v. 325 When a deer has passed into a thicket, leaving marks whereby his bulk may be guessed, it is called an entry.

  d. Mining. (See quot.)

1881 Raymond Mining Gloss., Entry, an adit. Applied to the main gangway in some coal mines.

  † 8. A room or house into which one enters to lodge; a lodging, hostel. Obs. exc. Hist.

1544 Late Exp. Scotl. in Arb. Garner I. 125 Upon the approachment of the men to their entries. 1852 Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. 412 All scholars should be members of some College, Hall or Entry. 1864 Burton Scot Abr. I. v. 258 Officers of the collegiate institutions—colleges, halls, inns, and entries.

  9. a. The action of entering or registering something in a list, record, account-book, etc. Also concr. a statement, etc. entered upon a record; an ‘item’ in a list or an account-book.

1553 N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices iii. (1558) 163 The enteries and ponnishments of the censors declare as much. 1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 12 §6 The said Clerk..shall register..a brief Declaration or Entry of the said Licence. a 1626 Bacon New Atl. (J.), A notary made an entry of this act. 1712 Arbuthnot John Bull 15 Fees for..examinations, filings of writs, entries, etc. 1802 M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. xix. 154 The sailor..appealed..to the entry in the books. 1849 Stovel Canne's Necess. Introd. 11 The following entries, copied from the Lords' Journal..determine the date. 1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer's Greece I. viii. 259 Making an entry in my diary, of the daily occurrences.

  b. double entry: the method of bookkeeping in which every item entered to the credit of one account in the ledger is entered to the debit of another, and vice versa. single entry: the method in which each transaction (as a general rule) is entered only in one account. Also fig.

1721 W. Webster Ess. Bk.-keeping (ed. 2) 1 Book-keeping is the Art of stating our Accompts,..to which end, the Italian manner of Debtor and Creditor, by double entry, is by experience, found most conducive. 1741 Mair Book-keeping Methodiz'd (ed. 2) 14 Italian Book-keeping is said to be a Method of Keeping Accompts by double Entry because, etc. 1883 Cariss Book-keeping 3 Book-keeping by Double Entry..was devised centuries ago, and has since become..generally adopted. 1961 S. Chaplin Day of Sardine i. 22 But if my writing's bad my double entry memory is good. It all goes down and sooner or later comes shooting out.

  c. The list of names of the competitors (for a race, etc.).

1885 Truth 28 May 854/1 The entry for the Royal Hunt Cup is smaller than usual.

  d. The entering at the custom-house of the nature and quantity of goods in a ship's cargo. bill of entry: see quot. 1809. port of entry: the port at which imported goods are entered.

1692 in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 300 If y⊇ entrey be right. 1715 Lond. Gaz. No. 5311/3 Keeper of the Books of Entry of all Ships coming into the Port of London. 1796 Burke Regic. Peace Wks. VIII. 385 The increase on the face of our entries is immense during the four years of war. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 130 Bill of entry, a note specifying goods entered at the custom house.

  10. attrib. and Comb., as entry-book, entry-card, entry-clerk, entry-door, entry-end, entry-list, entry-mat, entry-money, entry-mouth, entry-pegs, entry-point, entry-way, entry-winning; entry form, (a) an application form setting out a person's entry in a competition; (b) in Lexicography, the canonical form in which a word is entered in a dictionary; the head-form; entryman U.S., one who enters upon public land with the intention of settling; Entryphone, a proprietary name for a type of intercom device by which persons identify themselves in order to gain admittance to a building, etc.; also (with lower-case initial) used generically; cf. speak-box s.v. speak v. 36.

1678 Trial Ireland, etc. 47 As appears by their *Entry-Books. 1880 Quart. Rev., No. 297. 12 Lord Bolingbroke, There is no trace of his residence to be found in the entry-books of the Dean.

1907 Strand Nov. 507/1, B might easily have an *entry card in spades or clubs.

1751 Phil. Trans. XLVII. xlii. 280 An *entry-clerk in the court of Chancery.

1526 Tindale Acts xii. 13 Peter knocked at the *entry dore.

a 1804 J. Mather Songs (Sheffield 1862) 88 Who tell their fond tales at an *entry end.

1924 Competitions I. 147/1 An official *entry form must be used. 1961 ‘J. Wyndham’ Consider her Ways 218 Where is that Pools entry-form? 1962 K. Malone in Householder & Saporta Probl. in Lexicogr. 115 The entry-form should be self/selv- (not simply self). 1976 Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 16 July 29/4 Keep this copy of the Daily Telegraph Magazine safely meanwhile. You will need it for your entry form. 1980 Amer. Speech 1976 LI. 235 Choice of the entry-form spelling is made on the basis of frequency, historical importance, and phonetic regularity.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 13 Aug. 4/1 It was only with the greatest difficulty that the R.A.C. managed to get anything like a representative *entry list.

1886 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 59 The *entryman, under the timber culture act, is not compelled to plant any trees until the third year from date of entry, when if he likes he may file a relinquishment of his claim, and the land is again open for entry. 1912 Out West June 418 His report was heard read with great satisfaction by upwards of a hundred of the entrymen of Los Angeles and vicinity.

1855 Whitby Gloss., ‘The *entry mat’, the street door mat.

c 1490 Cely Papers in English Studies (1961) XLII. 143 Coket siluer othirwyse callid *entree money. 1864 A. M{supc}Kay Hist. Kilmarnock 210 Each member to pay the usual entry-money.

1880 Antrim & Down Gloss., *Entry mouth, sb., the end of an entry or lane, where it opens upon a street.

1865 Gayworthys II. 169 The two women lifted thin gingham bonnets from the *entry-pegs.

1958 Certificate of Incorporation (Companies' House) No. 614411 The *Entryphone Company Limited is this day incorporated. 1969 D. Gray Murder on Honeymoon xviii. 111 The front door had an entry-phone with the names of the six lots of tenants beside six buzzers. 1972 Observer (Colour Suppl.) 6 Feb. 39/1 An Entryphone breathes ‘Come in, I'll be down in a second’. 1976 Trade Marks Jrnl. 28 July 1573/2 Entryphone... Goods..for use in the control of entry of persons to buildings... Entryphone Company Limited,..London. 1982 Financial Times 17 Dec. 15/3 The well secured home probably includes an entryphone, grilles,..and an alarm.

1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 234 The sperm *entry-point. 1964 A. Edel in I. L. Horowitz New Sociology 218, I should like to..make a start on analyzing the entry-points, if we may so call them, where value issues enter into social science.

1746 Probate Rec. N.H. III. 391 It is also agreed by us that the said Cellar great Doors and the yard the *Entryway Stairs..all be in Common. 1854 M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine iii. 44 There was no entry way to the building. 1889 R. T. Cooke Steadfast xxii. 236 His study door opened from the left hand of the little entry-way into which they stepped from without. 1893 S. Merrill in M. Philips Making of Newspaper 96 Patrolman Blucher had finished his nap in the entry-way leading to Eckstein's cigar factory.

1471 Hist. Arriv. Edw. IV (Camd. Soc.) 6 At the first *Entrie-winning of his right to the Royme and Crowne of England.

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