Enter vs Tenter - What's the difference?
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(lb) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
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(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 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 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.).
(obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.
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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.
To stretch cloth on such a framework.
To admit extension; to be stretchable.
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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
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Alternative forms
* entreVerb
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- to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment
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- entered according to act of Congress
Synonyms
* go in * come inAntonyms
* (intransitive) exitDerived terms
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* 1000 English basic words ----tenter
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(wikipedia tenter)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Woollen cloth will tenter , linen scarcely.