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Entered vs Entering - What's the difference?

entered | entering |

As verbs the difference between entered and entering

is that entered is (enter) while entering is .

As a noun entering is

action of the verb to (enter).

entered

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Verb

(head)
  • (enter)
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    enter

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    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)
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    Anagrams

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    entering

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    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • action of the verb to (enter)
  • Derived terms

    * breaking and entering