| 单词 | entree |
| 释义 | entree (once / 6626 pages) 1n 2n Go to a fancy restaurant and take a look at the menu. If you decide to order the chicken, you've just selected your entree. Entree, pronounced "ON-tray" and sometimes spelled entrée, is another word for main course, at least as it's usually used in this country. Sometimes people talk about having an entree into society, or into some club. When it's used in those contexts, it usually means you have someone who's going to smooth the way, introduce you, and allow you to enter. WORD FAMILYentree: entrees USAGE EXAMPLESThe entrée was a Chinese-style dish of pasta with chopped vegetables. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Just before it leaves the kitchen, the strapping entree is dressed up with pungent cilantro, garlicky yogurt and fresh Thai chili peppers. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) The same kinds of questions apply to Trump’s entrée into foreign policy issues. Slate(Dec 28, 2016) 1 n the principal dish of a meal 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper main course plate a main course served on a plate course part of a meal served at one time 1n the act of entering she made a graceful entree into the ballroom Hyper entering, entrance, entry, incoming, ingress the act of entering 2n the right to enter Syn|Hypo|Hyper access, accession, admission, admittance door anything providing a means of access (or escape) open doorfreedom of access right an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature 3n something that provides access (to get in or get out) Syn|Hypo|Hyper entrance, entranceway, entry, entryway arch, archway a passageway under a curved masonry construction door, doorway, room access, thresholdthe entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close gatewayan entrance that can be closed by a gate hatchway, opening, scuttlean entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship pitheadthe entrance to a coal mine portala grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically) porte-cocherea carriage entrance passing through a building to an enclosed courtyard servant's entrance, service door, service entrancean entrance intended for the use of servants or for delivery of goods and removal of refuse stage dooran entrance to the backstage area of theater; used by performers and other theater personnel vomitoryan entrance to an amphitheater or stadium escape hatchhatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency exterior door, outside doora doorway that allows entrance to or exit from a building access, approach a way of entering or leaving |
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