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Entering vs Enroll - What's the difference?

entering | enroll |

As verbs the difference between entering and enroll

is that entering is while enroll is to enter (a name, etc) in a register, roll or list.

As a noun entering

is action of the verb to (enter).

entering

English

Verb

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  • * {{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

    enroll

    English

    Alternative forms

    * enrol (UK) (CA)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list
  • * Prescott
  • All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.
  • * Milton
  • An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling .
  • To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of
  • They were eager to enroll new recruits.
  • To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something)
  • Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?
  • (obsolete) To envelop; to enwrap.
  • (Spenser)

    Synonyms

    * (enter in a register) list, note, note down, record, register * (enlist) enlist, sign up, subscribe * (become a member) enlist, join, join up, sign up, subscribe * (join a class) add, register for

    Derived terms

    * enrollee * enroller * enrollment