Word Finder - entrance

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The action of entering, or going in.

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Her entrance attracted no attention whatsoever.

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The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.

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the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office

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The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.

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Place your bag by the entrance so that you can find it easily.

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The right to go in.

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You'll need a ticket to gain entrance to the museum.

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The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.

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a difficult entrance into business

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The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.

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His entrance of the arrival was made the same day.

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The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.

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The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.

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When a musician starts playing or singing, entry.

We have a pretty close time frame of entrance and exit.

It was the sunlight streaming in at the entrance to the passage.

She drove up to the elevator entrance on the side of the draw.

He says to enter the main house by the first entrance you find.

There should be a servant or someone posted near the entrance who can guide you to the restroom.

At the back entrance stood his caleche.

That evening Alex and Dulce were standing in the entrance room.

Rusty hinges were still visible in the wood but no door barred the entrance nor could anything be seen beyond but utter blackness.

It was a mine portal, smaller than the main entrance to the Lucky Pup.

It was getting dusk when Prince Andrew and Pierre drove up to the front entrance of the house at Bald Hills.

At one end of the trench, steps were cut out and these formed the entrance and vestibule.

Her heart quickening, she started towards the entrance of the church.

This was a guy from a small town in Iowa who failed his 1933 entrance exam to the University of Minnesota.

He sponsored my entrance into government service.

Pierre dropped them off in front, waiting until they stepped across the entrance before driving off.

They raced through the quaking halls toward the entrance, all while the strange roar of an ocean grew louder.

I told her about the back entrance to the mine.

Several times on glancing that way he noticed behind that door a plump, rosy, handsome woman in a pink dress with a lilac silk kerchief on her head, holding a dish and evidently awaiting the entrance of the commander-in-chief.

She handed it to Connie, describing the entrance and house.

They climbed higher, circling the open area in front of the entrance, but still saw nothing.

At her entrance, those in the nearest circle with Ne'Rin ceased their activity and bowed, then stood in a line and waited.

A disturbance at the entrance caught their attention and Carmen turned to see Alex striding purposefully across the floor toward them.

We have more blankets in the corner nearest the entrance.

No one at the stone entrance gates of the drive and the door stood open.

Two walked on once he reached the desert, and she trotted after him, looking back at the floodlit entrance to the elevator.

Heavy brush had totally obscured the entrance until someone had quite recently cut and pulled away the branches, exposing the opening.

The entrance from Chesapeake Bay is defended by Fortress Monroe on Old Point Comfort and by Fort Wood on a small island called the Rip Raps near the middle of the channel; and at Portsmouth, a few miles up the Elizabeth river, is, an important United States navy-yard.

At the entrance to the Arbat Square an immense expanse of dark starry sky presented itself to his eyes.

Evelyn's voice preceded her entrance by only a second.

We're opening another entrance.

You say you don't know where the Others' entrance is?

As we made the turn into the mall I could see at least half dozen police cruisers, some with lights still spinning, parked helter-skelter near the entrance.

It denied entrance to its own master.

He waved the helo away and led her to the hidden entrance.

He disappeared into a small room off the entrance and returned, PMF grays in his hand.

Just as Dean backed from the driveway, another car turned the corner and waited for him to clear the entrance.

Dean cornered Atherton near the entrance.

In a flood of tears and half-controlled sobs she got to her feet, and handkerchief to her face, dashed across the room toward the entrance.

He pointed toward another entrance.

Opposite the entrance, he saw an area that shimmered darker than the rest of the cave.

Jonny wasn't trained in reading minds; his entrance into hers was like taking a machete to a piñata.

Special wound-cork is also often formed round accidental injuries so as to prevent the rotting of the tissues by the soaking in of rain and the entrance of fungal spores and bacteria.

This mode has some disadvantages attending it; such sheets are difficult to handle; the crustaceous species are liable to have their surfaces rubbed; the foliaceous species become so compressed as to lose their characteristic appearance; and the spaces between the sheets caused by the thickness of the specimen permit the entrance of dust.

That facing the entrance was the place of greatest honour, where in many instances the remains of a martyr were deposited, whose tomb, according to primitive usage, served as an altar for the celebration of the eucharist.

The entrance to the canal is in the centre of the outer harbour.

It is situated on a platform of conglomerate rock forming a promontory at the south-west of the entrance to Loch Etive and is surrounded on three sides by the sea.

When the sound ceases the cistern is known to be full, and the entrance of further water or syrup is stopped.

The present family doubtless originated in the northern half of the Old World, whence .it effected an entrance by way of the Bering Strait route into North America, where it has always been but poorly represented in the matter of genera and species.

Prayers for the dead, attendance at funerals of gildsmen, periodical banquets, the solemn entrance oath, fines for neglect of duty and for improper conduct, contributions to a common purse, mutual assistance in distress, periodical meetings in the gildhall, - in short, all the characteristic features of the later gilds already appear in the statutes of these Anglo-Saxon fraternities.

The latter is the more serious, as in addition to the actual damage done by the beetle the holes afford entrance to fungus spores, &c. Under the name " horn worms " are included the larvae or caterpillars of species of Protoparce.