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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (6)

1. an item inserted in a written record;

2. the act of beginning something new;
- Example: "they looked forward to the debut of their new product line"
[syn: introduction, debut, first appearance, launching, unveiling, entry]

3. a written record of a commercial transaction;
[syn: entry, accounting entry, ledger entry]

4. something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition);
- Example: "several of his submissions were rejected by publishers"
- Example: "what was the date of submission of your proposal?"
[syn: submission, entry]

5. something that provides access (to get in or get out);
- Example: "they waited at the entrance to the garden"
- Example: "beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral"
[syn: entrance, entranceway, entryway, entry, entree]

6. the act of entering;
- Example: "she made a grand entrance"
[syn: entrance, entering, entry, ingress, incoming]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Entry \En"try\, n.; pl. Entries. [OE. entree, entre, F. entr['e]e, fr. entrer to enter. See Enter, and cf. Entr['e]e.] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] A notary made an entry of this act. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] A straight, long entry to the temple led. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. (Com.) 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., 5. [1913 Webster] 5. (Law) (a) The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them. (b) A putting upon record in proper form and order. (c) The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary. --Burrill. [1913 Webster] Bill of entry. See under Bill. Double entry, Single entry. See Bookkeeping. Entry clerk (Com.), a clerk who makes the original entries of transactions in a business. Writ of entry (Law), a writ issued for the purpose of obtaining possession of land from one who has unlawfully entered and continues in possession. --Bouvier. [1913 Webster]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

132 Moby Thesaurus words for "entry": access, account, adit, admission, admittance, adversaria, adversary, aide-memoire, air lock, annotation, approach, arrival, booking, candidate, cataloging, chronicling, coming in, competitor, contestant, corridor, credit, debit, docket, door, doorway, double entry, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entrance, entrance hall, entranceway, entrant, entree, entryway, favorite, footnote, foyer, galilee, gangplank, gangway, hall, impanelment, import, importation, importing, in, income, incoming, indexing, infiltration, ingoing, ingress, ingression, inlet, input, inscribing, inscription, insertion, insinuation, intake, interpenetration, introduction, introgression, intrusion, inventorying, item, jotting, leakage, listing, lobby, logging, marginal note, marginalia, matriculation, means of access, memo, memoir, memorandum, memorial, minute, minutes, mudder, narthex, notation, note, open arms, open door, opening, opponent, participant, passage, passageway, penetration, percolation, plate horse, plater, player, pole horse, pony, portal, portico, posting, propylaeum, race horse, racer, reception, record, record keeping, recordation, recording, register, registration, registry, reminder, rival, scholia, scholium, seepage, single entry, stable, stake horse, staker, starter, steeplechaser, stoa, string, tabulation, threshold, vestibule, way, way in