Enter vs Than - What's the difference?
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(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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, title= (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 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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*:This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings, / Shall enter me with him.
(obsolete, outside, dialects, usually used with for) Because; for.
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* 1668 , William Lawson, A way to get wealth :
* 1665 , Stillingfleet, Laud, Carwell, A rational account of the grounds of Protestant religion :
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(now, chiefly, dialectal) At that time; then.
As a noun enter
is the "enter" key on a computer keyboard.As a proper noun than is
the ninth earthly branch represented by the.enter
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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
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- entered according to act of Congress
Synonyms
* go in * come inAntonyms
* (intransitive) exitDerived terms
* entranceStatistics
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* 1000 English basic words ----than
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(wikipedia than)Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- If thou say yes, then puttest thou on Christ (that is, the wisdome of God, the Father) unkunning, unpower, or euil will: for than he could not make his rule so good as an other did his.
- You shall also take the fine earth or mould which is found in the hollow of old Willow trees, rising from the root almost to the middle of the Tree, at least so far as the tree is hollow, for than this, there is no earth or mould finer or richer.
- Answer me if you can, any other way, than because the Scriptures, which are infallible, Say so.
Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than' his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal ' than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}
Preposition
(English prepositions)- Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years.