What is the difference between enter and access?
enter | access |
(lb) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
:
*{{quote-book, year=1555, author=John Proctor, page=86
, title= *
*:Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
*
*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
(lb) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
:
(lb) To go or come into (a state or profession).
:
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (lb) To type (something) into a computer; to .
:
(lb) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
*
To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
*
*:I am pleased to notify the Congress of my intent to enter into a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the Government of Singapore.
To become effective; to come into effect.
*
(lb) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
(legal) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order.
to make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper customs officer for estimating the duties. See entry .
(transitive, US, dated, historical) To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right of preemption.
*
to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
(obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.
*
*:This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings, / Shall enter me with him.
(uncountable) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
* All access was thronged. - Milton
(uncountable) The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
(uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
(uncountable) The quality of being easy to approach or enter.
* c. 1600 , (William Shakespeare), Act 2 Scene 1
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=September 20
, author=Graeme Paton
, title=University access plan 'will fail', says Russell Group
, work=Telegraph
(uncountable) Admission to sexual intercourse.
* 1760s , (William Blackstone),
(countable) An increase by addition; accession; as, an access of territory.
* I, from the influence of thy looks, receive access in every virtue. - Milton
(countable) An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
* The first access looked like an apoplexy. - Burnet
(countable) An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion; as, an access of fury.
* 1946 , Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History (Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell)
(uncountable, legal) The right of a non-custodial parent to visit their child.
(uncountable, computing) The process of locating data in memory.
(uncountable, Internet) Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.
To gain or obtain access to.
(computing) To have access to (data).
Access is a synonym of enter.
In transitive terms the difference between enter and access
is that enter is to record (something) in an account, ledger, etc while access is to gain or obtain access to.As verbs the difference between enter and access
is that enter is to go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space while access is to gain or obtain access to.As nouns the difference between enter and access
is that enter is an alternative spelling of Enter||the computer key|lang=en while access is a way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.enter
English
Alternative forms
* entreVerb
(en verb)The historie of Wyates rebellion, with the order and maner of resisting the same, […], passage=
Our banks are out of control, passage=Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining".}}
- to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment
- (Burrill)
- entered according to act of Congress
Synonyms
* go in * come inAntonyms
* (intransitive) exitDerived terms
* entranceStatistics
*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----access
English
Etymology 1
* First attested in the early 14th century. * (entrance) First attested about 1380. * From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
- I did repel his fetters, and denied His access to me. - Shakespeare, Hamlet, II-i
citation, page= , passage=Coalition plans to widen access to university will fail to get to the 'root cause' of the problem, according to the Russell Group.}}
- During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown.
- It appears that, about the middle of the fourth century of the Christian Era, the Germans in the Roman service started the new practice of retaining their native names; and this change of etiquette, which seems to have been abrupt, points to a sudden access of self-confidence and self-assurance in the souls of the barbarian personnel which had previously been content to 'go Roman' without reservations.
- Usage note: sometimes confused with excess
Derived terms
* direct access * random access * remote accessEtymology 2
* First attested in 1962.Verb
(es)- I can't access most of the data on the computer without a password.