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Enter vs Tenter - What's the difference?

enter | tenter |

In intransitive terms the difference between enter and tenter

is that enter is to go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space while tenter is to admit extension; to be stretchable.

In transitive terms the difference between enter and tenter

is that enter is to record (something) in an account, ledger, etc while tenter is to stretch cloth on such a framework.

enter

English

Alternative forms

* entre

Verb

(en verb)
  • (lb) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
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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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  • (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)
  • (computing)
  • Statistics

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    Anagrams

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    tenter

    English

    (wikipedia tenter)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.
  • One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
  • (engineering) A kind of governor, or regulating device.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To stretch cloth on such a framework.
  • To admit extension; to be stretchable.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Woollen cloth will tenter , linen scarcely.

    Derived terms

    * tenterhook

    Anagrams

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