Enter vs. Access

Enter vs. Access — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Enter and Access

Enterverb

(intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.

You should knock before you enter, unless you want to see me naked.

Accessnoun

(uncountable) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.

Enterverb

(transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.

to enter a knife into a piece of wood;to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.

Accessnoun

(uncountable) The act of approaching or entering; an advance.

Enterverb

(figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).

My twelve-year-old son will be entering his teens next year.She had planned to enter the legal profession.

Accessnoun

(uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.

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Enterverb

(transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.

Enter your user name and password.

Accessnoun

(uncountable) The quality of being easy to approach or enter.

Enterverb

(transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.

Accessnoun

(uncountable) Admission to sexual intercourse.

Enterverb

To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.

Accessnoun

An increase by addition; accession

an access of territory
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Enterverb

To become effective; to come into effect.

Accessnoun

(countable) An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.

Enterverb

(legal) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.

Accessnoun

(countable) An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion

Enterverb

To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order.

to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment

Accessnoun

The right of a non-custodial parent to visit their child.

Enterverb

to make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper customs officer for estimating the duties. See entry.

Accessnoun

The process of locating data in memory.

Enterverb

To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right of preemption.

Accessnoun

Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.

Enterverb

to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).

entered according to act of Congress

Accessverb

(transitive) To gain or obtain access to.

Enterverb

To initiate; to introduce favourably.

Accessverb

To have access to (data).

I can't access most of the data on the computer without a password.

Enternoun

(computing) the computer key

Accessnoun

the right to enter

Enternoun

(computing) a stroke of the computer key

Accessnoun

the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership)

Enterverb

to come or go into;

the boat entered an area of shallow marshes

Accessnoun

a way of entering or leaving;

he took a wrong turn on the access to the bridge

Enterverb

become a participant; be involved in;

enter a raceenter an agreemententer a drug treatment programenter negotiations

Accessnoun

(computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information

Enterverb

register formally as a participant or member;

The party recruited many new members

Accessnoun

the act of approaching or entering;

he gained access to the building

Enterverb

be or play a part of or in;

Elections figure prominently in every government programHow do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?

Accessverb

obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer

Enterverb

make a record of; set down in permanent form

Accessverb

reach or gain access to;

How does one access the attic in this house?I cannot get to the T.V. antenna, even if I climb on the roof

Enterverb

come on stage

Enterverb

put or introduce into something;

insert a picture into the text

Enterverb

take on duties or office;

accede to the throne

Enterverb

set out on (an enterprise, subject of study, etc.);

she embarked upon a new career