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Entering vs Interface - What's the difference?

entering | interface |

As a verb entering

is .

As a noun entering

is action of the verb to (enter).

entering

English

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

    interface

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The point of interconnection between entities.
  • Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press.
  • (chemistry, physics) A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance.
  • If water and oil are mixed together, they tend to separate, and at equilibrium they are in different strata with an oil-water interface in between.
    The surface of a lake is a water-air interface .
  • (computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
  • The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.
  • (computing) The connection between a user and a machine.
  • The options are selected via the user interface .
  • (computing, object-oriented) The connection between parts of software.
  • This interface is implemented by several Java classes.
  • (computing, object-oriented) In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.
  • The Audio and Video classes both implement the IPlayable interface .

    Derived terms

    * abstract interface * generic interface * marker interface * network interface * user interface

    Verb

    (interfac)
  • to construct an interface for, to connect through an interface
  • to be an interface, to be into an interface