Word Meanings - ENTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8,

Additional info about word: ENTRY

The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n., The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them. A putting upon record in proper form and order. The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary. Burrill. Bill of entry. See under Bill. -- Double entry, Single entry. See Bookkeeping. -- Entry clerk , a clerk who makes the original entries of transactions in a business. -- Writ of entry , a writ issued for the purpose of obtaining possession of land from one who has unlawfully entered and continues in possession. Bouvier. (more info) 1. The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking. 2. The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item. A notary made an entry of this act. Bacon. 3. That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine. A straight, long entry to the temple led. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENTRY)

• Entrance
• Introduction
• opening
• entry
• inlet
• porch
• admission
• penetration
• avenue
• portal
• ingress
• adit
• Record
• Registry
• enrolment
• list
• index
• catalogue
• register
• schedule
• roll
• scroll
• enumeration
• inventory
• muniment
• instrument
• archive
• memorandum
• remembrance

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ENTRY)

• Obliviate
• silentiate
• suppress

Related words: (words related to ENTRY)

• INDEXICAL
  Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.
• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• REGISTERING
  Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording.
• PORCH
  A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk.
• SCROLLED
  Formed like a scroll; contained in a scroll; adorned with scrolls; as, scrolled work.
• INSTRUMENTALITY
  The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
• OPEN
  1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures
• OPEN-MOUTHED
  Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
• RECORDATION
  Remembrance; recollection; also, a record. Shak.
• REGISTERSHIP
  The office of a register.
• ADMISSION
  Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry. 5. A fact, point, or statement admitted;
• INSTRUMENTATION
  1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical
• INDEXICALLY
  In the manner of an index.
• RECORD
  L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- + cor, cordis, the heart or 1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. "I it you record." Chaucer. 2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. They longed to see the day, to hear the lark
• RECORDER
  A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. "Flutes and soft recorders." Milton. (more info) 1. One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions. 2. The title of the
• SUPPRESSION
  Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion. Quain. (more info) 1. The act of suppressing,
• INSTRUMENTALLY
  1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke. 2. With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. Mason.
• CENTRY
  See GRAY
• GENTRY
  gentrise, and OF. gentelise, genterise, E. gentilesse, also OE. 1. Birth; condition; rank by birth. "Pride of gentrie." Chaucer. She conquers him by high almighty Jove, By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath. Shak. 2. People
• SERPENTRY
  1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• FINLET
  A little fin; one of the parts of a divided fin.
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• UNREMEMBRANCE
  Want of remembrance; forgetfulness. I. Watts.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• ARGENTRY
  Silver plate or vessels. Bowls of frosted argentry. Howell.
• INSUPPRESSIVE
  Insuppressible. "The insuppressive mettle of our spirits." Shak.
• SCOLOPENDRINE
  Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.