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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
entrance
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an entrance exam (=in order to enter a school or university)
▪ Jane passed the entrance exam but decided not to go.
an entrance examination (=to enter a school or university )
▪ He had now failed the college entrance examination twice.
an entrance/entry fee (=a fee to enter a place)
▪ The gallery charges an entrance fee.
entrance hall
▪ a huge tiled entrance hall
the entrance gate
▪ Derek met us at the entrance gate.
the entrance to a tunnel/tunnel entrance
▪ To the right was the entrance to a second tunnel.
the entrance to a tunnel/tunnel entrance
▪ To the right was the entrance to a second tunnel.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
▪ There's no back entrance, no side entrance.
▪ They had in mind a back entrance occasionally used by delivery trucks in the dead of night.
▪ The back fly entrance has a single zip, giving a small bellend space to store a rucksack and boots.
▪ As we return to the school we cut across the large paved parking lot and head for the back entrance.
▪ It was parked outside the back entrance to a two-storey building.
▪ With a sigh, Hari moved to the back entrance and knocked again.
▪ I followed, and found a space in the car park near the back entrance to the supermarket.
front
▪ At the front entrance there are two wide door openings so access in and out is extremely good.
▪ Police barricades were set up at the front entrance, and police cars occasionally circled the building.
▪ As Brassard was leaving, he warned the security man at the front entrance that Celia was expecting a visitor.
▪ Returning to the front entrance, he found Hendrix still waiting for her food, smoking yet another cigarette.
▪ The steps at the front entrance were demolished and a ramp was constructed together with new steps.
▪ They had been strictly segregated from the ladies and gentlemen who entered by the front entrance and walked on carpet.
▪ She turned from the front entrance.
▪ Flats with shared front entrances are not particularly desirable either, even if they do have entry phones fitted.
main
▪ In peace and war, the Union Flag has fluttered above the main entrance.
▪ And there are just four X-ray portals at the main entrance to Olympic Park.
▪ This prime site is adjacent to the dual carriageway at the main entrance to the port.
▪ Koi swim in a pond just inside the main entrance.
▪ On the pediment of the main entrance, the gold hands of the blue-painted clock moved towards the hour.
▪ She found a parking space close to the main entrance.
▪ There is a sudden flurry outside the main entrance, a Gothic porch.
▪ As we got closer, we could see that the Hall was a heavy, dark building with a large main entrance.
rear
▪ The nearest rear entrance belonged to a home bakery.
▪ From there, a quiet backstreet led to the rear entrance of her apartment block.
▪ I got dressed and went into the barn and looked for the old wooden trunk near the rear entrance.
▪ They did however have the convenience of a rear entrance.
▪ She garaged her car and thought briefly of entering the apartment block by the rear entrance.
▪ Beside it was an alleyway which provided rear entrances to a row of Botanic Avenue shops.
separate
▪ She confirmed that when seeing each other they always tried to use separate entrances and exits.
▪ We already have two bathrooms and two separate entrances.
▪ When the second car, 762 was rebuilt, a new layout with separate entrance and exit was included.
▪ The sole unit, quiet, with a separate outside entrance, sleeps four to five and has a kitchen.
▪ The Studios have a separate entrance in Harrison Street and have direct access to the Stalls seating area.
▪ There are three types of apartment available each with separate entrance.
■ NOUN
door
▪ Just inside the big double entrance doors were hundreds of tiles which never seemed to be sold.
▪ He asked if Adrian had posted the Closed sign on the entrance door.
▪ A short flight of stairs adjoins each entrance door and leads down to the central sleeping area.
▪ Occasionally, l glanced at the entrance door.
▪ The entrance to the site is close to the entrance doors.
exam
▪ Even so, without his father's family connection he wouldn't have scraped through the entrance exam.
▪ An entrance exam guides students into one of four academic tracks, ranging from highly gifted to remedial.
▪ He failed a university entrance exam.
▪ She was still holding the newspaper clipping about the woman who committed suicide when her son failed his college entrance exam.
▪ It is another two years before they sit their university entrance exam.
▪ There are juku to help four-year-olds pass entrance exams for elite kindergartens.
▪ Students often have a good idea of what scores they need on college-entrance exams to earn acceptance letters and scholarships.
▪ There are even juku to help kids pass entrance exams to get into prestigious juku.
examination
▪ Voice over Professors flew in especially from Prague to supervise the entrance examinations and emphasise the benefits of studying in their country.
▪ He claimed to have taken entrance examinations for Stevens, but no records remain.
▪ Having passed the entrance examinations he joined as an Aircraft Apprentice at Halton in August 1928.
▪ There had been a rush to take part when the national college entrance examination was restored in 1977.
fee
▪ All except the 25 pence of the £4.25 entrance fee goes to the rider coming second.
▪ Of them, 186 collect an entrance fee.
▪ We not only pay an entrance fee to access these facilities, we also pay a community charge for local amenities.
▪ After a major uproar, that was trashed and replaced with an $ 11 entrance fee.
▪ But the not-so-bright can sometimes secure a place if the parents stump up a large entrance fee.
▪ For example, the entrance fee at Yosemite is now $ 5.
▪ The entrance fee was another 15 dollars but this is nothing to Nikitenko.
▪ Strangers may be politely questioned before paying the $ 16 entrance fee.
foyer
▪ The two co-exist as memories of their cultures, with a healthy clash where the two collide in the entrance foyer.
▪ Today the art teacher, Charlotte Bond, and several students are working on the mural in the entrance foyer.
▪ There was no sign of her in the entrance foyer, nor in the street outside.
▪ The entrance foyer was packed when Georg sidled in that evening, hoping that no-one would see him and recognize him.
▪ The original entrance foyer on the main road behind the square was barred and boarded and papered over with layers of handbills.
▪ Bordered designs were used throughout the remaining passageways with a Chlidema square for the entrance foyer inset in a marble surround.
gate
▪ The old citadel remains; a fortified entrance gate, a ruined keep, some fine slabs of wall.
▪ Three Miramar entrance gates -- main, north and west -- will be open for visitors.
▪ The Usher Art Gallery decided that it needed to replace its imposing main entrance gates which were taken away in the war.
▪ The single entrance gate bears a lock from the age of dungeons.
▪ However, those who passed through the entrance gates where Hades stood might never return to the mortal world.
▪ The windows overlooked the long drive to distant entrance gates.
hall
▪ The origins of the hotel are also apparent in the impressive entrance hall, cocktail bar and lounge.
▪ The second entrance hall is bigger with more marble, a grim but opulent place.
▪ Internally, the only significant architectural feature was the two-storey entrance hall, and this is to be retained.
▪ There was a glass cupola in the entrance hall reached from an attic suite with exposed beams.
▪ But at least they had removed the studio photograph of a royal princess which until recently had graced the entrance hall.
▪ The entrance hall was lit by three light pillars.
▪ Both the entrance hall and the grand banqueting room on the first floor can be hired.
▪ The entrance hall of the hotel was as big as a railway station itself.
requirement
▪ For mature candidates, there are modified entrance requirements.
▪ Develop performance-based admissions standards in addition to, or in place of, more traditional entrance requirements.
▪ Normal entrance requirements for degree courses should apply, and parallel courses should make differentiated demands on students.
▪ The Columbia program was enjoying enormous popularity because it offered the widest possible latitude both in studies and in its entrance requirements.
▪ In view of the competition for places, all applicants are required to have covered the same basic entrance requirements.
▪ Food fights have no entrance requirements.
▪ Passes counting towards entrance requirements must be obtained at no more than two sittings of examinations.
tunnel
▪ The resident here has clamped his opponent and is lifting him away from the tunnel entrance.
▪ Half way down was a stone arch over the tunnel entrance.
▪ Railway builders gave a special dignity and significance to the treatment of tunnel entrances.
▪ The nettles in the tunnel entrance had been partially flattened.
university
▪ He failed a university entrance exam.
▪ It is another two years before they sit their university entrance exam.
▪ The social class bias in university entrance is not matched by a corresponding bias in university performance.
■ VERB
block
▪ The travellers had already been thwarted by Gloucestershire police, who blocked entrances to a site in the Forest of Dean.
▪ The rubble had temporarily blocked the entrance to the cavern below the Horseshoe Falls.
▪ They have defied bailiffs by blocking the entrance to the building.
▪ Five were arrested on a charge of trying to block an entrance to the Treasury Building.
▪ The stone that blocked the entrance to the tomb was placed there for a purpose.
▪ In London, two skips and six barrels full of toxic waste blocked the front entrance to the environment building.
▪ They blocked the entrances in protest at what they claim is the unnecessary culling of badgers organised from the base.
▪ We arrived at one which blocked one of the entrances to Debenham.
gain
▪ Picking her way over the rough ground and through the hazards, she gained the kitchen entrance.
▪ About fifty people attempted to gain entrance, but were held back by the police.
▪ She will gain entrance to the text through a consideration of how articles of clothing function for women and for men.
▪ But there are the keys, without which the adventurers can not gain entrance to vital areas of the Castle.
guard
▪ The woman guarding the entrance way does not wish to know this.
▪ We failed to clear the farther islands which guard the entrance, and had to turn back to Po Ti.
▪ They see that the stone guarding the entrance to the sepulchre has been rolled away.
▪ Draitser retaliated by posting security guards at the hotel entrance to bar Tatum.
▪ But the camera was designed to guard the lift entrance, and not show what lay beyond.
▪ Minders guarded the entrance as they played in the hot jets.
▪ Now look up at the towers guarding the entrance to Charles Bridge.
lead
▪ He dropped us in a short street which led to the entrance to the Taj.
▪ A walkway from the street, set off from the sidewalk by a stone wall, led to a side entrance.
make
▪ It makes my superfluous entrances and exits possible, that would have been difficult or undreamt-of, otherwise.
▪ Conscious work on negative emotions makes the entrance of positive emotions more and more certain, as each day passes.
▪ He made for the central entrance to the choir under the organ and almost collided with Dhani, who giggled.
▪ By the time Johnson made his second-half entrance with 7: 05 left, it was 67-47.
▪ One of the things I remember about Michael was him waiting to make his entrance each night.
▪ She was letting me make my entrance.
▪ Characters made their entrances from the two lifts and swept down the stairs to their appointed places.
▪ Dominic used to love making an entrance.
mark
▪ It would mark our open entrance into the field of politics.
▪ The Parkins' house stood in a drive marked at the entrance with a notice restricting access to residents only.
▪ Use an arbor to frame a view or to mark the entrance to a path, he suggests.
▪ After a twenty-minute drive, Blanche spotted a notice marking the entrance to Malbis Castle.
▪ An hour later, we made our way to the flashing beacons marking the entrance to Channel Islands Harbor.
reach
▪ As I reached the entrance to the lift the iron concertina gate clattered open.
▪ They reached the entrance to what was probably the least damaged of the buildings, long and windowless.
▪ They reached the entrance in mutual silence and, seething in mounting outrage, she was propelled inside.
▪ Duregar's army moved steadily southwards until it reached the eastern entrance to Death Pass.
▪ Renwick shook off the effects of his talk with Lorna Upwood and concentrated on reaching the entrance to this enormous building.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ college entrance examinations
▪ Davis used a side entrance to avoid the waiting reporters.
▪ It took us ages to find the entrance to the park.
▪ The price includes most meals and entrance fees to museums.
▪ Their conversation was interrupted by the entrance of four visitors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It makes my superfluous entrances and exits possible, that would have been difficult or undreamt-of, otherwise.
▪ It turns toward an expressway entrance only a few blocks away.
▪ Kragan turned right outside the hotel entrance and walked towards the Rue de Rivoli.
▪ The erasure, then, is more or less the same procedure as the entrance.
▪ The sole unit, quiet, with a separate outside entrance, sleeps four to five and has a kitchen.
▪ There were the usual grumbles, but they faded instantly as the ambulance backed up to the entrance, doors already opening.
▪ You waited at the entrance to Terminal One, saw me arrive in a taxi.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I was entranced by her sheer beauty.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was immediately entranced by her voice and built a band called Ton Ton Macoute around her.
▪ Her icy, delicate beauty entranced Kay.
▪ Jockey shorts on sale in outdoor bins on Broadway entrance him.
▪ You know I did, I was entranced by them the other day.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entrance

Entrance \En"trance\, n. [OF. entrance, fr. OF. & F. entrant, p. pr. of entrer to enter. See Enter.]

  1. The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.

  2. Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.
    --Shak.

  3. The passage, door, or gate, for entering.

    Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city.
    --Judg. i. 2

  4. 4. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business. ``Beware of entrance to a quarrel.''
    --Shak.

    St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology.
    --Hakewill.

  5. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.

  6. (Naut.)

    1. The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
      --Ham. Nav. Encyc.

    2. The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
      --Totten.

Entrance

Entrance \En*trance"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entranced; p. pr. & vb. n. Entrancing.] [Pref. en- + trance.]

  1. To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.

    Him, still entranced and in a litter laid, They bore from field and to the bed conveyed.
    --Dryden.

  2. To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.

    And I so ravished with her heavenly note, I stood entranced, and had no room for thought.
    --Dryden.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
entrance

1520s, "act of entering," from Middle French entrance, from entrer (see enter). Sense of "door, gate" first recorded in English 1530s. Meaning "a coming of an actor upon the stage" is from c.1600.

entrance

"to throw into a trance," 1590s, from en- (1) "put in" + trance (n.). Meaning "to delight" also is 1590s. Related: Entranced; entrancing; entrancement.

Wiktionary
entrance

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context countable English) The action of entering, or going in. 2 The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office. 3 (context countable English) The place of entering, as a gate or doorway. Etymology 2

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To delight and fill with wonder. 2 (context transitive English) To put into a trance.

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WordNet
entrance

  1. n. something that provides access (entry or exit); "they waited at the entrance to the garden"; "beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral" [syn: entranceway, entryway, entry, entree]

  2. a movement into or inward [syn: entering]

  3. the act of entering; "she made a grand entrance" [syn: entering, entry, ingress, incoming]

  4. v. attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts" [syn: capture, enamour, trance, catch, becharm, enamor, captivate, beguile, charm, fascinate, bewitch, enchant]

  5. put into a trance [syn: spellbind]

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Wikipedia
Entrance (display manager)

Entrance is a display manager for the X Window System. It is written using the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, a graphical toolkit written in C.

Entrance is themeable, and is capable of launching different desktop environments from a list, as well as remembering users for auto-login. It also allows animation and visual effects. Customization is achieved by editing a database located in /etc/entrance/entrance.conf by default.

Development of Entrance was started around 2003 by Ibukun Olumuyiwa in order to create a successor to a program called Elogin. The project went on hiatus in 2005. On 9 August 2012, development was restarted by Michael Bouchaud, who renamed his previous display manager ("Elsa") to Entrance.

The name of Entrance may be a play on words, as the correct pronunciation hints at putting the user in a trance, though it is also the "entrance" to the graphical desktop.

Entrance (album)

Entrance is the first studio album by Edgar Winter.

Entrance (film)

Entrance is a 2011 American independent film that mixes elements of mumblecore, psychological thrillers, and horror films. It was directed by Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath and was written by Hallam, Horvath, Karen Gorham, and Michelle Margolis. Suziey Block stars as a barista who lives a repetitive and anxious life in Los Angeles. When her beloved dog disappears, she decides to give up and move back home, but first she invites all her friends to a going-away party.

Entrance

Entrance generally refers to the place of entering like a gate or door, or the permission to do so.

Entrance may also refer to:

  • Entrance (album), a 1970 album by Edgar Winter.
  • Entrance (display manager), a login manager for the X window manager.
  • Entrance (Liturgical), a kind of liturgical procession in the Eastern Orthodox tradition
  • Entrance (musician), born Guy Blakeslee
  • Entrance (film), a 2011 film
  • Making an entrance, a theatrical term for the appearance of a character on screen or stage
  • The Entrance, New South Wales, a suburb on the Central Coast of Australia
  • "Entrance" (Dimmu Borgir song), from the 1997 album Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
  • Entry (cards), a card that wins a trick to which another player made the lead, as in the card game contract bridge
  • N-Trance, a British electronic music group formed in 1990
  • University and college admissions
Entrance (liturgical)

In Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches, an entrance is a procession during which the clergy enter into the sanctuary through the Holy Doors. The origin of these entrances goes back to the early church, when the liturgical books and sacred vessels were kept in special storage rooms for safe keeping and the procession was necessary to bring these objects into the church when needed. Over the centuries, these processions have grown more elaborate, and nowadays are accompanied by incense, candles and liturgical fans. In the liturgical theology of the Orthodox Church, the angels are believed to enter with the clergy into the sanctuary, as evidenced by the prayers which accompany the various entrances.

The bishop has the right to enter and leave the altar (sanctuary) through the Holy Doors at any time, and is not restricted to the liturgical entrances, as the priest and deacon are.

Entrance (musician)

The Entrance Band (formerly called Entrance) is a band started by Guy Blakeslee (born April 29, 1981). Their style of music has been described as psychedelic rock or stoner rock.

Blakeslee was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland and first gained notice as a member of The Convocation Of.... He later left the band and moved to Chicago to pursue a solo career under the guise of the name Entrance. He performed regularly for the next 18 months at a bar called The Hideout, which eventually gained him the attention of Tiger Style Records.

Entrance toured with Sonic Youth, Devendra Banhart, Will Oldham, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dungen and Cat Power. Blakeslee has released his music through Tiger Style Records and Fat Possum Records, as well through his own record label, Entrance Records. The Entrance Band have been chosen by Animal Collective to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that they will curate in May 2011.

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Usage examples of "entrance".

The entrance they came to was a transparent wall and set of doors opening from a wide pedestrian precinct lined by stores and what looked like office units, rows of display cases, and at the far end a battery of stairs and escalators going up to the concourse of a transportation terminal.

John Adams, who on his entrance in the wake of the two tall Virginians seemed shorter and more bulky even than usual.

With Adelaide carrying Prickles behind him, he pushed his way through the shouting crowds towards the hospital entrance.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Adena doing the same thing on the other side of the entrance.

Then I spun around and saw that Adena was doing an even better job on her side of the cave entrance.

Lufo found it by stumbling at its lip, a sinister trapezoidal hole in brittle spongy limestone, masked by agarita shrubs that grew at the entrance in perfect camouflage.

The airdrome had been bombed eight months before, and knobby slabs of white stone rubble had been bulldozed into flat-topped heaps on both sides of the entrance through the wire fence surrounding the field.

They would never be able to muster any organized response to our determined entrance into the Angolan arena.

Satisfied that Arcadia and her assistant were both busy with a crowd of customers, he took his foot down off the bench and strolled toward the entrance to the lane.

A portion of the rock face disappeared, exposing a rough, archlike entrance.

Instead, as soon as he had the wounded man in the wheelchair, he rolled him out of the drive, through the areaway, and around the house to the handicapped entrance at the far side.

Dionysms the Areopagite, the emperor, graciously recalling the Greek origin of this saint, sent a chorus of Greek priests, and the Franks were entranced not merely by their vestments and painted tapers, but by their dramatic genuflections and the ensemble of bass and treble voices.

Entranced in wonder and pleasure, Argemone let her eyes wander over the drawing.

And to our chamber there was no entrance save by a lofty door of brass: and the door was fashioned by the artizan Corinnos, and, being of rare workmanship, was fastened from within.

Rachel Saint, sister of Nate, the pilot, patiently keeps on with her study of the Auca language with the help of Dayuma, who came to know the Lord Jesus and began to pray, with thousands of others, for the entrance of the Light to her tribe.