enteringn.

Brit.

/ˈɛnt(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈɛn(t)ərɪŋ/,

/ˈɛntrɪŋ/

Forms: see enter v. and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: enter v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < enter v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare entry n. and later entrance n. Compare also ingoing n. and earlier ingang n.

a. The action of enter v. (in various senses); coming or going in; putting something in; beginning; registration. Also: an instance of this. Occasionally with in.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun]

ingangc900

infarea1175

entrya1325

enteringc1330

ingoing1340

incominga1382

coming ina1398

ingressionc1470

introit1481

ingate1496

entrance1528

ingredience1538

ingress1543

impassing1545

enterc1547

entral1642

entrada1648

entrata1656

introgression1656

entrée1692

adit1836

immergence1859

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun]

ordeOE

thresholdeOE

frumthc950

anginOE

frumeOE

worthOE

beginninga1225

springc1225

commencementc1250

ginninga1300

comsingc1325

entryc1330

aginning1340

alphac1384

incomea1400

formec1400

ingressc1420

birtha1425

principlea1449

comsementa1450

resultancec1450

inition1463

inceptiona1483

entering1526

originala1529

inchoation1530

opening1531

starting1541

principium1550

entrance1553

onset1561

rise1589

begin1590

ingate1591

overture1595

budding1601

initiationa1607

starting off1616

dawninga1631

dawn1633

impriminga1639

start1644

fall1647

initial1656

outset1664

outsettinga1698

going off1714

offsetting1782

offset1791

commence1794

aurora1806

incipiency1817

set-out1821

set-in1826

throw-off1828

go-off1830

outstart1844

start1857

incipience1864

oncome1865

kick-off1875

off-go1886

off1896

get-go1960

lift-off1967

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [noun] > keeping or affinity with dogs > dog-training > training hounds

entering1714

walk1735

entry1845

c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 8834 Neiȝe ichon of her felawe In þe entring brouȝt a paien of dawe.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. liii. 1204 In þe entryng þey breken þe grettere greynes.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) 1 Kings xvi. 4 The eldere men of the citee..camen to hym, and seiden, Whether thin entryng [L. ingressus] is pesible?

1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 285 (MED) My mastyr paid for entrynge of a pleynt in the Cownter ffor Pryse, and the restynge, xij d.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. biiii In the entryng of the .vii. dayes iourney of this pilgrimage of perfection.

a1555 H. Latimer 27 Serm. (1562) ii. f. 1^v Our Father, These wordes pertaine not to the petitions, they be but an entring.

c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 240 The depairting of the nycht watche and the entering of the day watche.

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. iv. 22 In the entring of the Spring.

1702 London Gaz. No. 3839/4 The Horses to be kept in that Parish from the Entring to the Running.

1714 A. Stringer (title) The Experienc'd Huntsman..with directions concerning the Breeding and Entring of Hounds.

1792 Columbian Mag. Mar. 212 The present provisions concerning the entering of stills are found by experience not to be adequate.

1842 H. E. Manning Serm. i. 3 The entering in of sin proves the presence of an Evil Being.

1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. 334 From the entering of Moscow to the arrival at St. Helena.

1908 Cent. Mag. Dec. 214/2 This was his entering of the larger, stormier world that lay beyond the aspen shade.

2008 Accounting Technol. July 20/3 The company is focusing on..streamlining the entering of data.

†b. The right or ability to enter; access, admission. Often with to. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > power, right, or opportunity of entrance

entryc1330

accessc1384

enteringc1436

entress1447

open door1526

entrance?1552

intercourse1598

open access1602

accession1608

entrée1746

c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 159 (MED) They payen aȝeyn to the toun the right custum for the out goyng as they dedyn for the enteryng.

a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 243 (MED) He myght have entryng and agayn goyng with his plough..to the forsaid crofte.

a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. clxxxxii/2 In the mornyng gyuyng to hym entrynge he sayd to hym.

1571 G. Fenton tr. Actes of Conf. in Relig. f. 53^v There was made an opening..to giue entring to the bodye of Iesus Christe.

1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 147 Sa thay come vnto the Knichtis ludgeing, Quhair his wife lay, sone thay gat entering.

†2.

a. A means of entry; an entrance to a place. Occasionally with in. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > means of entrance > place of entrance

ingangc900

entryc1325

incominga1382

enteringa1398

incomea1400

accessa1460

coming ina1483

entrance?c1525

door-gatea1529

ingatea1599

inlet1624

inroad1650

antechamber1672

vestibule1755

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. ciii. 1253 Whanne þe norþeren wynd bloweþ he stoppeþ þe norþ entrynge wiþ here rowȝ tailles and leten stonde vpon [read open] þe souþ entrynge.

a1425 (c1384) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Ezek. xxvi. 10 Whanne he shal goo in the ȝatis, as bi entryngis [L. introitus] of the citee distruyed.

a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 500 (MED) Bitwene the entryng of Iohn Enysham of the west parte and the lond of Walter Feteplace of the Est parte.

c1500 in Speculum (1954) 29 718 (MED) Bynde at the entering in of the gardin the begynnynge of the clewe.

c1540 A. Borde Bk. for to Lerne B iij a The gate howse in the mydse of the fronte entrynge into the place.

1622 J. Rawlins Famous Recoverie Ship of Bristoll sig. A4 These two..came to a place at the entring of the straites named Trafflegar.

1688 J. Bunyan Solomon's Temple xlvii. 125 It was to be set..before the Mercy-Seat; that is, at the entring of the Holiest, but not within.

1768 Tyburn Chron. I. 246 The rebels defended it, and had made a barrier at the entering of the town.

b. An opening in a bodily organ. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Iij It [sc. testis fellis] hath two entrynges or neckes betwene whiche is a dystaunce.

Compounds

C1. attributive, designating a means of entry or something which is located at or near an entrance.

ΚΠ

a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Nyne Fyrst Bks. Eneidos (1562) ix. sig. Ee. ii^v Som seke their entring breach [L. aditum] on skaling ladders clambring quick.

1597 S. Finche Let. 7 Mar. in A. C. Ducarel Some Acct. Town Croydon (1783) App. 153* There is space..for a enteringe stone of eache side.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 368 The chiefest Mosque in it..hauing thirty foure entring Doores.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 195 The Husbandman is forced to Build low, and the Doors like entring Ports.

1787 tr. C.-F. Volney Trav. Syria & Egypt I. xvi. 235 They even take the precaution to make the entering door very low.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxi. 272 This cape is the great entering landmark of the northern shores of Lancaster Sound.

1891 Cosmopolitan July 305/1 They were designed to move just below the surface of the water with only the smokestack and entering hatchway visible.

1902 Temple Bar June 689 A ladder-way led to an entering port on the upper gun deck.

1907 Homœopathic Eye, Ear & Throat Jrnl. Apr. 160 The tonsils as an entering point for tuberculous infection.

2011 K. Kuwahara Kyoto Samurai Story viii. 206 The formal way of getting off the carriage was going out from the opposite side of the entering door.

C2.

† entering chisel n. Woodworking and Sculpture Obsolete a chisel with a curved end, used to carve wood or stone in small spaces where a flat chisel is not suitable.

ΚΠ

1854 A. Tolhausen et al. Dict. Technologique I. 393/1 Ciseau à cuiller, spoon chisel; entering chisel.

1868 W. Bemrose Fret-cutting (end matter) (advt.) A Set of Carving Tools... Three Carving Chisels... One Entering Chisel.

1903 C. Barnard Tools & Machines v. 71 Special forms of chisels suited to the fine material in which he works, like the entering-chisel.

entering clerk n. now historical a clerk who makes entries in an account book, register, etc.; (in the 19th century often) spec. one who works in an entering room in a warehouse; cf. entry clerk n. at entry n. Compounds.

ΚΠ

1663 T. Manley Sollicitor (ed. 2) v. 81 It is to be entred by the entring-Clerk, and so brought back again to the Register.

1701 London Gaz. No. 3723/4 Whereby Entring-clerks and others may be furnished with proper Words.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Apr. 2/1 Chained to the desk of an entering clerk.

1998 Hist. Refl. 24 410 Boult was followed by another official, an entering clerk for the Bank.

entering edge n. now rare the forward edge of a moving body, spec. (a) the forward edge of the blade of a propeller (of a ship, aircraft, turbine, etc.); (b) Aeronautics the forward edge of an aerofoil, as a wing, tailplane, etc.Now typically called leading edge.

ΚΠ

1801 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. II. 789/1 We know such watches... We have seen one whose cylinder was not concentric with the balance, but so placed on the verge that the axis of the verge was at o..between the centre B of the cylinder and the entering edgeb.

1845 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 9 294 The effort of the entering edge of each blade must cause the water to recede.

1885 Engineer 6 Nov. 351/3 The top or entering edge of a turbine bucket should be straight instead of curved.

1908 H. Maxim Artif. & Nat. Flight vii. 100 Our planes must have a certain length of entering edge—that is, the length of the front edge must bear a certain relation to the load lifted.

1939 Pop. Aviation Apr. 64/2 The same reasoning holds true that the more pointed the entering edge is the more fixed is the best position (angle) of the airfoil section.

1999 Air Power Hist. Winter 6/2 The severity of the defects..included a propensity for the aircraft to catch fire and also the failure of the entering edge..of the upper wing.

† entering file n. Obsolete a narrow, tapered, flat file, used to begin or enlarge grooves or holes in a surface.

ΚΠ

1841 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 24 July 5/3 There were four dozen and a half of what are called entering files lying on his work-bench.

1881 Rep. Chief of Ordnance to Secretary of War 368 It is used as an entering file in starting key-ways and grooves.

1909 Hawkins' Mech. Dict. 160/2 It is termed an entering file, as it enters small holes or slits to enlarge them.

entering ladder n. Nautical a wooden or rope ladder which is attached to the side of a ship to allow people to get on and off board.

ΚΠ

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 13 An entring ladder.

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vi. 27 The Entering rope is tied by the ships side, to hold by as you goe vp the Entering ladder, cleats, or wailes.

1774 R. Hotham Candid State Affairs 19 The wales of the York, at the entering ladder, were nineteen inches out of water.

1901 G. Gibbs In Search of Mademoiselle xxv. 336 We had hooked the entering ladder of the Vengeance.

1995 R. Unwin Winter away from Home xii. 223 Heemskerck, then his companions, hauled themselves stiffly up the entering ladder.

† entering room n. Obsolete a room in a wholesaler's warehouse or large retail premises where goods selected by customers are brought so that details can be recorded and invoices made out before delivery or collection.

ΚΠ

1838 Times 24 Sept. 1/5 (advt.) Wanted, for the entering room of a first rate warehouse.

1886 Daily News 20 Oct. 6/2 The huge press that stood in the entering room..went for a beggarly six shillings.

1929 Financial Times 11 Feb. 4/1 Mr. Jesson, the manager of the entering room, 34 years.

† entering rope n. Nautical Obsolete a rope running alongside a gangway or ladder on the side of a ship to assist people getting on and off board.

ΚΠ

c1625 Treat. Rigging in W. Salisbury & R. C. Anderson Treat. Shipbuilding & Treat. Rigging (1958) 61 Ropes but seven in a shippe which are the Boterope, Toprope, Boye rope. Entering rope, Limer or keele rope, Ladder rope, Bucket rope.

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vi. 27 The Entering rope is tied by the ships side, to hold by as you goe vp the Entering ladder, cleats, or wailes.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Tire-veilles, the man ropes, or entering-ropes of the side.

entering wedge n. chiefly North American something which serves as a small first step towards something greater; cf. the thin (little or small) end of the wedge at wedge n. 2b.

ΚΠ

1646 R. Vines Purifying Unclean Hearts & Hands 13 God who hath the ordering of sin, makes some great sin very serviceable and usefull, to be, as it were, an entring wedge to break the knotty heart all to pieces.

1763 J. Mayhew Observ. Charter & Conduct Soc. Propagation Gospel 57 These small parties thus encouraged and supported by the Society in different parts of New-England at a great expence, have in short all the appearance of entering wedges.

1868 Local Preachers' Mag. Jan. 148/1 Our opponents stand before the American people, controverting the expediency of this reform, because they are afraid it will be an ‘entering-wedge’ to something more.

1945 S. S. Glueck & E. T. Glueck After-conduct Discharged Offenders viii. 99 This legislation is of great significance as probably constituting an entering wedge to the later decriminalisation of other behaviour categories of psychopaths.

2013 P. R. Breggin Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal vi. 74 Stimulant drugs were the entering wedge into the widespread drugging of America's children.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	entering
释义	enteringn. Brit. /ˈɛnt(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɛn(t)ərɪŋ/, /ˈɛntrɪŋ/ Forms: see enter v. and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: enter v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < enter v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare entry n. and later entrance n. Compare also ingoing n. and earlier ingang n. 1. a. The action of enter v. (in various senses); coming or going in; putting something in; beginning; registration. Also: an instance of this. Occasionally with in. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] ingangc900 infarea1175 entrya1325 enteringc1330 ingoing1340 incominga1382 coming ina1398 ingressionc1470 introit1481 ingate1496 entrance1528 ingredience1538 ingress1543 impassing1545 enterc1547 entral1642 entrada1648 entrata1656 introgression1656 entrée1692 adit1836 immergence1859 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] ordeOE thresholdeOE frumthc950 anginOE frumeOE worthOE beginninga1225 springc1225 springc1225 commencementc1250 ginninga1300 comsingc1325 entryc1330 aginning1340 alphac1384 incomea1400 formec1400 ingressc1420 birtha1425 principlea1449 comsementa1450 resultancec1450 inition1463 inceptiona1483 entering1526 originala1529 inchoation1530 opening1531 starting1541 principium1550 entrance1553 onset1561 rise1589 begin1590 ingate1591 overture1595 budding1601 initiationa1607 starting off1616 dawninga1631 dawn1633 impriminga1639 start1644 fall1647 initial1656 outset1664 outsettinga1698 going off1714 offsetting1782 offset1791 commence1794 aurora1806 incipiency1817 set-out1821 set-in1826 throw-off1828 go-off1830 outstart1844 start1857 incipience1864 oncome1865 kick-off1875 off-go1886 off1896 get-go1960 lift-off1967 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [noun] > keeping or affinity with dogs > dog-training > training hounds entering1714 walk1735 entry1845 c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 8834 Neiȝe ichon of her felawe In þe entring brouȝt a paien of dawe. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. liii. 1204 In þe entryng þey breken þe grettere greynes. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) 1 Kings xvi. 4 The eldere men of the citee..camen to hym, and seiden, Whether thin entryng [L. ingressus] is pesible? 1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 285 (MED) My mastyr paid for entrynge of a pleynt in the Cownter ffor Pryse, and the restynge, xij d. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. biiii In the entryng of the .vii. dayes iourney of this pilgrimage of perfection. a1555 H. Latimer 27 Serm. (1562) ii. f. 1^v Our Father, These wordes pertaine not to the petitions, they be but an entring. c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 240 The depairting of the nycht watche and the entering of the day watche. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. iv. 22 In the entring of the Spring. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3839/4 The Horses to be kept in that Parish from the Entring to the Running. 1714 A. Stringer (title) The Experienc'd Huntsman..with directions concerning the Breeding and Entring of Hounds. 1792 Columbian Mag. Mar. 212 The present provisions concerning the entering of stills are found by experience not to be adequate. 1842 H. E. Manning Serm. i. 3 The entering in of sin proves the presence of an Evil Being. 1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. 334 From the entering of Moscow to the arrival at St. Helena. 1908 Cent. Mag. Dec. 214/2 This was his entering of the larger, stormier world that lay beyond the aspen shade. 2008 Accounting Technol. July 20/3 The company is focusing on..streamlining the entering of data. †b. The right or ability to enter; access, admission. Often with to. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > power, right, or opportunity of entrance entryc1330 accessc1384 enteringc1436 entress1447 open door1526 entrance?1552 intercourse1598 open access1602 accession1608 entrée1746 c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 159 (MED) They payen aȝeyn to the toun the right custum for the out goyng as they dedyn for the enteryng. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 243 (MED) He myght have entryng and agayn goyng with his plough..to the forsaid crofte. a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. clxxxxii/2 In the mornyng gyuyng to hym entrynge he sayd to hym. 1571 G. Fenton tr. Actes of Conf. in Relig. f. 53^v There was made an opening..to giue entring to the bodye of Iesus Christe. 1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 147 Sa thay come vnto the Knichtis ludgeing, Quhair his wife lay, sone thay gat entering. †2. a. A means of entry; an entrance to a place. Occasionally with in. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > means of entrance > place of entrance ingangc900 entryc1325 incominga1382 enteringa1398 incomea1400 accessa1460 coming ina1483 entrance?c1525 door-gatea1529 ingatea1599 inlet1624 inroad1650 antechamber1672 vestibule1755 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. ciii. 1253 Whanne þe norþeren wynd bloweþ he stoppeþ þe norþ entrynge wiþ here rowȝ tailles and leten stonde vpon [read open] þe souþ entrynge. a1425 (c1384) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Ezek. xxvi. 10 Whanne he shal goo in the ȝatis, as bi entryngis [L. introitus] of the citee distruyed. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 500 (MED) Bitwene the entryng of Iohn Enysham of the west parte and the lond of Walter Feteplace of the Est parte. c1500 in Speculum (1954) 29 718 (MED) Bynde at the entering in of the gardin the begynnynge of the clewe. c1540 A. Borde Bk. for to Lerne B iij a The gate howse in the mydse of the fronte entrynge into the place. 1622 J. Rawlins Famous Recoverie Ship of Bristoll sig. A4 These two..came to a place at the entring of the straites named Trafflegar. 1688 J. Bunyan Solomon's Temple xlvii. 125 It was to be set..before the Mercy-Seat; that is, at the entring of the Holiest, but not within. 1768 Tyburn Chron. I. 246 The rebels defended it, and had made a barrier at the entering of the town. b. An opening in a bodily organ. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Iij It [sc. testis fellis] hath two entrynges or neckes betwene whiche is a dystaunce. Compounds C1. attributive, designating a means of entry or something which is located at or near an entrance. ΚΠ a1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Nyne Fyrst Bks. Eneidos (1562) ix. sig. Ee. ii^v Som seke their entring breach [L. aditum] on skaling ladders clambring quick. 1597 S. Finche Let. 7 Mar. in A. C. Ducarel Some Acct. Town Croydon (1783) App. 153* There is space..for a enteringe stone of eache side. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 368 The chiefest Mosque in it..hauing thirty foure entring Doores. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 195 The Husbandman is forced to Build low, and the Doors like entring Ports. 1787 tr. C.-F. Volney Trav. Syria & Egypt I. xvi. 235 They even take the precaution to make the entering door very low. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxi. 272 This cape is the great entering landmark of the northern shores of Lancaster Sound. 1891 Cosmopolitan July 305/1 They were designed to move just below the surface of the water with only the smokestack and entering hatchway visible. 1902 Temple Bar June 689 A ladder-way led to an entering port on the upper gun deck. 1907 Homœopathic Eye, Ear & Throat Jrnl. Apr. 160 The tonsils as an entering point for tuberculous infection. 2011 K. Kuwahara Kyoto Samurai Story viii. 206 The formal way of getting off the carriage was going out from the opposite side of the entering door. C2. † entering chisel n. Woodworking and Sculpture Obsolete a chisel with a curved end, used to carve wood or stone in small spaces where a flat chisel is not suitable. ΚΠ 1854 A. Tolhausen et al. Dict. Technologique I. 393/1 Ciseau à cuiller, spoon chisel; entering chisel. 1868 W. Bemrose Fret-cutting (end matter) (advt.) A Set of Carving Tools... Three Carving Chisels... One Entering Chisel. 1903 C. Barnard Tools & Machines v. 71 Special forms of chisels suited to the fine material in which he works, like the entering-chisel. entering clerk n. now historical a clerk who makes entries in an account book, register, etc.; (in the 19th century often) spec. one who works in an entering room in a warehouse; cf. entry clerk n. at entry n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1663 T. Manley Sollicitor (ed. 2) v. 81 It is to be entred by the entring-Clerk, and so brought back again to the Register. 1701 London Gaz. No. 3723/4 Whereby Entring-clerks and others may be furnished with proper Words. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Apr. 2/1 Chained to the desk of an entering clerk. 1998 Hist. Refl. 24 410 Boult was followed by another official, an entering clerk for the Bank. entering edge n. now rare the forward edge of a moving body, spec. (a) the forward edge of the blade of a propeller (of a ship, aircraft, turbine, etc.); (b) Aeronautics the forward edge of an aerofoil, as a wing, tailplane, etc.Now typically called leading edge. ΚΠ 1801 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. II. 789/1 We know such watches... We have seen one whose cylinder was not concentric with the balance, but so placed on the verge that the axis of the verge was at o..between the centre B of the cylinder and the entering edgeb. 1845 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 9 294 The effort of the entering edge of each blade must cause the water to recede. 1885 Engineer 6 Nov. 351/3 The top or entering edge of a turbine bucket should be straight instead of curved. 1908 H. Maxim Artif. & Nat. Flight vii. 100 Our planes must have a certain length of entering edge—that is, the length of the front edge must bear a certain relation to the load lifted. 1939 Pop. Aviation Apr. 64/2 The same reasoning holds true that the more pointed the entering edge is the more fixed is the best position (angle) of the airfoil section. 1999 Air Power Hist. Winter 6/2 The severity of the defects..included a propensity for the aircraft to catch fire and also the failure of the entering edge..of the upper wing. † entering file n. Obsolete a narrow, tapered, flat file, used to begin or enlarge grooves or holes in a surface. ΚΠ 1841 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 24 July 5/3 There were four dozen and a half of what are called entering files lying on his work-bench. 1881 Rep. Chief of Ordnance to Secretary of War 368 It is used as an entering file in starting key-ways and grooves. 1909 Hawkins' Mech. Dict. 160/2 It is termed an entering file, as it enters small holes or slits to enlarge them. entering ladder n. Nautical a wooden or rope ladder which is attached to the side of a ship to allow people to get on and off board. ΚΠ 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 13 An entring ladder. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vi. 27 The Entering rope is tied by the ships side, to hold by as you goe vp the Entering ladder, cleats, or wailes. 1774 R. Hotham Candid State Affairs 19 The wales of the York, at the entering ladder, were nineteen inches out of water. 1901 G. Gibbs In Search of Mademoiselle xxv. 336 We had hooked the entering ladder of the Vengeance. 1995 R. Unwin Winter away from Home xii. 223 Heemskerck, then his companions, hauled themselves stiffly up the entering ladder. † entering room n. Obsolete a room in a wholesaler's warehouse or large retail premises where goods selected by customers are brought so that details can be recorded and invoices made out before delivery or collection. ΚΠ 1838 Times 24 Sept. 1/5 (advt.) Wanted, for the entering room of a first rate warehouse. 1886 Daily News 20 Oct. 6/2 The huge press that stood in the entering room..went for a beggarly six shillings. 1929 Financial Times 11 Feb. 4/1 Mr. Jesson, the manager of the entering room, 34 years. † entering rope n. Nautical Obsolete a rope running alongside a gangway or ladder on the side of a ship to assist people getting on and off board. ΚΠ c1625 Treat. Rigging in W. Salisbury & R. C. Anderson Treat. Shipbuilding & Treat. Rigging (1958) 61 Ropes but seven in a shippe which are the Boterope, Toprope, Boye rope. Entering rope, Limer or keele rope, Ladder rope, Bucket rope. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vi. 27 The Entering rope is tied by the ships side, to hold by as you goe vp the Entering ladder, cleats, or wailes. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Tire-veilles, the man ropes, or entering-ropes of the side. entering wedge n. chiefly North American something which serves as a small first step towards something greater; cf. the thin (little or small) end of the wedge at wedge n. 2b. ΚΠ 1646 R. Vines Purifying Unclean Hearts & Hands 13 God who hath the ordering of sin, makes some great sin very serviceable and usefull, to be, as it were, an entring wedge to break the knotty heart all to pieces. 1763 J. Mayhew Observ. Charter & Conduct Soc. Propagation Gospel 57 These small parties thus encouraged and supported by the Society in different parts of New-England at a great expence, have in short all the appearance of entering wedges. 1868 Local Preachers' Mag. Jan. 148/1 Our opponents stand before the American people, controverting the expediency of this reform, because they are afraid it will be an ‘entering-wedge’ to something more. 1945 S. S. Glueck & E. T. Glueck After-conduct Discharged Offenders viii. 99 This legislation is of great significance as probably constituting an entering wedge to the later decriminalisation of other behaviour categories of psychopaths. 2013 P. R. Breggin Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal vi. 74 Stimulant drugs were the entering wedge into the widespread drugging of America's children. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). enteringadj.adv. Brit. /ˈɛnt(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɛn(t)ərɪŋ/, /ˈɛntrɪŋ/ Forms: see enter v. and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: enter v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < enter v. + -ing suffix². 1. That enters or is in the process of entering; that comes or goes in. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [adjective] entering?a1425 ingredient1611 entrant1635 introvenient1646 ingoing1825 ineunta1856 ingressant1947 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [adjective] > that begins entering?a1425 beginning1576 upstarting1581 starting1811 commencing1830 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 104 (MED) Þe spalde receyuyng..and þe furcle closyng and þe adiutorij entring. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island v. xlvi. 58 Receives the entring sounds. 1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 cxxix. 33 Grim death..urges ent'ring billows as they flow. 1724 R. Blackmore Treat. Consumptions ii. 97 The rapid Velocity of the entering Tides. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc ix. 260 Nor heard the coming courser's sounding hoof, Nor entering footstep. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 57 Streams of entering and departing courtiers. 1920 Coal Age 12 Feb. 325/1 The practical effect of these entering darts of air is to pierce and cool the heated atmosphere. 1980 Sci. Amer. July 57/1 An entering gamma-ray photon typically scatters off several electrons. 2011 Targeted News Service (Nexis) 22 Nov. Use a public address system or bullhorns to manage the entering crowd. †2. Of a period of time or state of things: that begins; commencing. Also as adv.: at the start of a period of time; spec. (in quot. 1483) in the morning. Cf. enter v. 2b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [adjective] entering1483 initial1526 inceptive1662 initiary1822 ab initio1836 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. lxxxxix/2 The next moneth of august, the thirde day entryng. 1591 R. Southwell Marie Magdalens Funeral Teares f. 66^v To her nowe entring, and neuer ending pleasures. 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