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re-entry|riːˈɛntrɪ|
[re- 5 a. Cf. F. rentrée.]
1. a. Law. The act of re-entering upon possession of lands, tenements, etc., previously granted or let to another.
1461Rolls of Parlt. V. 485/1 With lyke clause of reentre reserved. 1473Ibid. VI. 70/1 Though he wold entre into the seid maners,..yet anon theruppon reentre is made ayen uppon hym. 1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 17 The leassor..to haue no action reentre or other remedy for nonpayment of the same. 1581in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 414 Wth a clause of re-entrie for none payment of the rente.., and also a re-entrye for not doinge reparacions. 1611Barry Ram Alley H, Although thou boughtst the heyre, Yet hath the slaue made a re-entry. 1644Quarles Sheph. Orac. xi, They plead for want of dressing Our Garden's forfeited, and they are pressing Hard for reentry. 1766in Burrow Rep. (1776) IV. 1936 No Re-entry shall in such Case be given, unless the Demand be precisely and strictly followed. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) IV. 113 No right of entry or re-entry can be assigned. 1876Digby Real Prop. x. §1. 381 A lease usually contains a proviso for re-entry by the lessor in the event of the breach of any of the covenants entered into by the lessee.
†b. Resumption of, return to, a right or station.
1471Arriv. Edw. IV (Camden) 39 The reentrie and perfecte recover of the iuste title and right of owr sayd soveraygne Lord Kynge Edward the Fowrthe, to his realme and crowne of England. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1589) 374 Convicted for conspiring the reentrie of Tarquinius race unto the Kingdome of Rome.
2. a. The act of re-entering or coming back into a place, etc.; a second or new entry.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 636 To haue his counceyll for maters concernyng theyr charge as reentre into this lande & other. 1601Daniel Civ. Wars vii. xxxi, Every Port And Shore close-shut debarres their reentry. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 922 Those of Phila had made a reentrie into the citie, and chased out the tyrants. a1653Gouge Comm. Hebr. iii. (1655) 8 To return to sinne..is to make way for the Devils re-entry. a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) II. 127 Will [he] lose the glory..by suffering his foiled adversary to make a re-entry? 1821Schoolcraft Trav. 98 We..effected the crossing and re-entry of the lake. 1884‘Cavendish’ Whist (ed. 14) 5 A player cutting into one table, whilst belonging to another, loses his right of re-entry into that latter.
b. card of re-entry: in Whist, a card which by winning a trick gives the lead to a player at an advanced stage of the hand; also, in Bridge, a card which by winning a trick gives the lead (in his own hand or in dummy) to a player who has previously had it. So re-entry card and ellipt. as re-entry.
1884‘Cavendish’ Whist (ed. 14) 127 Plain suits should be led like trumps..if all the trumps are out, and the leader or his partner has certain cards of re-entry in other suits. 1899A. Dunn Bridge 22 If the long suit hand has no card of re-entry, he will be prevented from bringing in his suit. 1905[see duck v. 6]. 1908R. F. Foster Auction Bridge 84 In planning the play of a no-trumper, the declarer must be careful to provide for re-entry cards. 1958Listener 9 Oct. 572/1 If he had a suit headed by KQJ and a re-entry he would pass, not overcall. 1967Cohen & Barrow Bridge Players' Encycl. 405/1 Re-entry, a card by which a player who had the lead (including the opening lead) can regain it.
c. Astronautics. The return of a spacecraft into the earth's atmosphere.
1948Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. VII. 34 The technique of atmospheric re-entry will be developed from progressively daring excursions into space. 1961Guardian 6 May 1/3 The vapour trail caused by the re-entry of the capsule. 1968Times 16 Dec. 7/2 The reentry of the first rocket stage into the atmosphere. 1970Guardian 18 Apr. 1/1 The spacecraft..appeared to be badly scarred by the heat of re-entry. 1977G. Scott Hot Pursuit x. 89 Clearly it had not been programmed to come down where it did; you've seen how it was damaged in re-entry and landing.
d. The act of re-inserting a drilling bit into a borehole during the drilling of an offshore oil well or similar hole.
1961W. Bascom Hole in Bottom of Sea xiii. 271 There would be no riser pipe or other means of hole re-entry. If the bit were once withdrawn, the hole would be lost. 1962Design of Deep Ocean Drilling Ship (U.S. Nat. Research Council) 64 A riser pipe may be the best means of hole re-entry... When re-entry is attempted—after a bit change, for example—as the pipe tip approaches bottom a sensing sonde will be lowered into position at the bit which will be able to sense the tip of the projecting casing. 1968Proc. Offshore Exploration Conf. 242 Reentry was attempted by two engineers with only one reentry for a number of attempts. 1974Geotimes Dec. 16/2 The casing broke just below the reëntry core, and was displaced downward..after 4 successful reëntries, eventually preventing further reëntry.
e. Surfing. (See quot. 1968.)
1968W. Warwick Surfriding in N.Z. 14/1 A re-entry is a roller coaster, taken a stage further. To perform this tactic, your board must be moving roughly parallel to the top of the wave and as the wave begins to break, kick your board to the top so that it is sitting on top of the curl with virtually no water covering its deck. Your board will appear to have stalled at the top of the wave for a second then it will be sucked back down with the curl. 1970Surf I. x. 11/2 Finishes it off with a re-entry.
f. Return to one's usual place or mode of living.
1972Listener 31 Aug. 270/1 The standard pattern of war veterans..a difficulty in what is called ‘re-entry’, in getting back into the civilian society. 1974N.Y. Times 8 July 1/3 ‘Country’ is where you go.. to escape from your city responsibilities, and when country-time ends, re-entry can be traumatic.
†3. Sc. The act of putting (a person) back in a place. Obs. rare—1.
1566Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 454 For re-entre of the said Erle..in ward.
4. a. The act of setting down or recording again; the fact of being so set down; the entry thus made.
1839Act 2 & 3 Vict. c. 11 §4 Such officer shall be entitled for any such Re-entry to the Sum of One Shilling. 1885Law Times Rep. LII. 574/2 The re-entry was erroneous, and ought to be struck out. 188748th Rep. Dep. Kpr. Records 628 A memorandum..of the judgment, &c., was to be left for the purpose of re-entry in the book.
b. Philately. (See quots.)
1916F. J. Melville Postage Stamps in Making I. ix. 96 The varieties of the first British stamps which are best described as having had the roller applied twice, or ‘re⁓entries’ known to have existed on Plate 145 of the 1d., Small Crown, imperforate, and other plates of Great Britain. 1951R. J. Sutton Stamp Collector's Encycl. 191 Re-entry, duplication of part of a stamp design due to a first impression having been inadequately erased, and thus enabling traces of its ‘entry’ to appear in conjunction with the new impression, causing a doubling of a part of the image... Known in the U.S.A. as ‘shift’. 1971D. Potter Brit. Eliz. Stamps xiv. 159 On recess-printed stamps the entry die may momentarily make contact in part, twice, and slight doubling of the design results. This is known as a re-entry. 1972D. & M. Patrick Hodder Stamp Dict. (1973) 204/1 Re-entry, a second attempt to rock in the stamp design on a steel plate for engraving postage stamps... A perfect re-entry leaves no second line on the stamps. 1975B. Gunston Philatelist's Compan. 247 Re-entry, characteristic doubling or thinning of portions of the design of a line-engraved stamp caused by the impression having been entered more than once on the plate.
5. attrib. (a) in sense 2 c, as re-entry angle, re-entry black-out, re-entry capsule, re-entry heating, re-entry parachute, re-entry problem, re-entry vehicle; (b) in sense ‘giving permission for re-entry into a country’, as re-entry permit, re-entry visa; re-entry card: see sense 2 b above; re-entry point Computers (see quots.).
1970Daily Tel. 17 Apr. 6/1 Without this burn, the space⁓craft would miss by 100 miles the critical re-entry angle, between 5·6 and 7·2 degrees.
1966Electronics 14 Nov. 54 Reentry blackout has plagued every flight in the Mercury and Gemini series.
1967Technology Week 20 Feb. 10/2 Biosatellite I's re-entry capsule containing biological specimens and data on magnetic tape..is believed to have re-entered in or near Australia.
1962F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics i. 5 A review of the problems of reentry heating.
1976P. Cave High Flying Birds i. 11 Originally designed as a possible re-entry parachute device for space capsules, the flying sail designed by Francis M. Rogallo in the early sixties has come a long way.
1948F. Frenaye tr. Levi's Christ stopped at Eboli xiii. 123 Before they are aware of it..their re-entry permit [to the US] has expired, and they have to stay at home. 1972R. Perry Fall Guy iv. 73 Wondering whether I'd be granted a re-entry permit.
1922Gloss. Terms Automatic Data Processing (B.S.I.) ii. 39 The point at which a routine is re-entered from a subroutine is a re-entry point. 1977Gloss. Terms Data Processing (B.S.I.) vii. 8/1 Reentry point, the address or the label of the instruction at which the computer program that called a subroutine is reentered from the subroutine.
1957Times 9 Nov. 6/5 The President's positive claim that the United States has solved the so-called re-entry problem of bringing space missiles back to earth.
1965New Scientist 2 Dec. 638/1 Further improvement is being made with re-entry vehicles which embody penetration aids against anti-missile defence. 1973Times 26 Feb. (Arms for Peace Suppl.) p. ii/4 The United States, by possessing the ability to put multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles on her launchers, has many more nuclear warheads than the Soviet Union.
1973J. Shub Moscow by Nightmare xi. 125 I'm not coming back... The Soviet Embassy called me yesterday. They've cancelled my re-entry visa. 1977Times 11 May 7/8 The Soviet authorities had given him a permanent reentry visa so that he can return to Moscow. |