<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li><p>used without object: enter</p><ul><li>definitions:<ul><li>to come or go in (e.g., "Knock before you enter.")</li><li>to be admitted into a school, competition, etc. (e.g., "Some contestants enter as late as a day before the race.")</li><li>to make a beginning (often followed by on or upon) (e.g., "We have entered upon a new phase in history.")</li><li>in theater, to come upon the stage (used in stage directions as the 3rd person imperative singular or plural) (e.g., "Enter Othello, and Iago at a distance.")</li></ul></li></ul></li><li><p>used with object: enter</p><ul><li>definitions:<ul><li>to come or go into (e.g., "He just entered the building.")</li><li>to penetrate or pierce (e.g., "The bullet entered the flesh.")</li><li>to put in or insert</li><li>to become a member of; join (e.g., "to enter a club.")</li><li>to cause to be admitted, as into a school, competition, etc. (e.g., "to enter a horse in a race.")</li><li>to make a beginning of or in, or begin upon; engage or become involved in (e.g., "He entered the medical profession.")</li><li>to share in; have an intuitive understanding of (e.g., "In order to appreciate the novel, one must be able to enter the spirit of the work.")</li><li>to make a record of; record or register (e.g., "to enter a new word in a dictionary.")</li><li>to make a formal record of (a fact) (Law)</li><li>to occupy or take possession of (lands); make an entrance, entry, ingress in, under claim of a right to possession</li><li>to file an application for (public lands)</li><li>to put (a document, program, data, etc.) into a computer system (e.g., "Enter your new document into the word-processing system.")</li><li>to put forward, submit, or register formally (e.g., "to enter an objection to a proposed action; to enter a bid for a contract.")</li><li>to report (a ship, cargo, etc.) at the custom house</li></ul></li></ul></li><li><p>verb phrase:</p><ul><li>to participate in; engage in</li><li>to investigate; consider (e.g., "We will enter into the question of inherited characteristics at a future time.")</li><li>to sympathize with; share in</li><li>to form a constituent part or ingredient of (e.g., "There is another factor that enters into the situation.")</li><li>to go into a particular state (e.g., "to enter into a state of suspended animation.")</li></ul></li></ul>