Input vs Entrance - What's the difference?
input | entrance |
The act or process of putting in; infusion.
That which is put in, as in an amount.
Contribution, or share in a contribution.
Something fed into a process with the intention of it shaping or affecting the outputs of that process.
To put in; put on.
To data.
To accept data that is entered.
* 2009 , J Stanley Warford, Computer Systems
(countable) The action of entering, or going in.
The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.
(countable) The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=
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, chapter=1 (uncountable) The right to go in.
The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.
* Shakespeare
* Halliwell
The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.
(nautical) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
(nautical) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
To delight and fill with wonder.
* 1996 β
To put into a trance.
In transitive terms the difference between input and entrance
is that input is to accept data that is entered while entrance is to put into a trance.input
English
(wikipedia input)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* input deviceVerb
- The user inputs his date of birth and the computer displays his age.
- The program inputs a value for the integer variable num and compares it with the constant integer limit.
entrance
English
Alternative forms
* entraunceEtymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
- Her entrance attracted no attention whatsoever.
- the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office
citation, passage=βIt was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.β}}
- Place your bag by the entrance so that you can find it easily.
- You'll need a ticket to gain entrance to the museum.
- to give entrance to friends
- a difficult entrance into business
- Beware of entrance to a quarrel.
- St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology.
- His entrance of the arrival was made the same day.
- (Totten)
Synonyms
* ingangAntonyms
* (l)Etymology 2
FromVerb
(entranc)- The children were immediately entranced by all the balloons.
- See the finest girl in France make an entrance to entrance ...