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Enter vs Continue - What's the difference?

enter | continue |

As a noun enter

is the "enter" key on a computer keyboard.

As a verb continue is

.

enter

English

Alternative forms

* entre

Verb

(en verb)
  • (lb) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
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  • *:Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
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  • *: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.
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  • (lb) To go or come into (a state or profession).
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  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
  • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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".}}
  • (lb) To type (something) into a computer; to .
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  • (lb) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
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  • To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
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  • *: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.
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  • (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 enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment
    (Burrill)
  • 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.
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  • to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
  • entered according to act of Congress
  • (obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.
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  • *:This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings, / Shall enter me with him.
  • Synonyms

    * go in * come in

    Antonyms

    * (intransitive) exit

    Derived terms

    * entrance

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing)
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  • Statistics

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    Anagrams

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    continue

    English

    Verb

    (continu)
  • to proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
  • Shall I continue speaking, or will you just interrupt me again?
    Do you want me to continue to unload these?
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 15, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
  • , title= Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea , passage=Fuelled by their fury, Spurs surged forward and gave themselves hope after 56 minutes when Scott Parker's precise through-ball released Adebayor. He was pulled down in the area by Cech but referee Atkinson allowed play to continue for Bale to roll the ball into an empty net.}}
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  • Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
  • To make last; to prolong.
  • * , New York, 2001, p.74:
  • Can you account him wise or discreet that would willingly have his health, and yet will do nothing that should procure or continue it?
  • To retain (someone) in a given state, position etc.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p.257:
  • The schools were very much the brainchild of Bertin, and although the latter was ousted from the post of Controller-General by Choiseul in 1763, he was continued by the king as a fifth secretary of state […].
  • To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
  • * Milton
  • Here to continue , and build up here / A growing empire.
  • * Bible, Matthew xv. 32
  • They continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
  • to resume
  • When will the concert continue ?
  • (legal) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
  • This meeting has been continued to the thirteenth of July.
  • (poker slang) To make a continuation bet.
  • Usage notes

    * In the transitive sense, (continue) may be followed by either the present participle or the infinitive; hence use either "to continue writing" or "to continue to write". * As (continue) conveys the sense of progression, it is pleonastic to follow it with "on" (as in "Continue on with what you were doing").

    Synonyms

    * carry on, go on with, keep, keep on, proceed with * (sense) carry on, go on, proceed, resume

    Antonyms

    * terminate, discontinue

    Noun

    (wikipedia continue) {{examples-right, sense=statement which causes a loop to execute the next iteration, examples= Line 3 of the following pseudocode contains a continue . 1. for c = 1 to 5 do 2. tif (c == 3) do 3. ttcontinue; 4. tend 5. tprint(c + " "); 6. end}} (en noun)
  • (video games) an option allowing a gamer to resume play after have been lost.
  • (video games) an option allowing a player to .
  • (programming) a , skipping the statements following it
  • Coordinate terms

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