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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the act or right of entering |
| Synonyms: | access, admission, entrance |
| Concept: | [Motion into] Ingress. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
ingress; entrance, entry; introgression; influx, intrusion, inroad, incursion, invasion, irruption; ingression; penetration, interpenetration; illapse, import, infiltration; immigration; admission (reception); insinuation (interjacence); insertion., inlet; way in; mouth, door, (opening) [more]; barway; path (way); conduit; immigrant.
-verbs
have the entree; enter; go into, go in, come into, come in, pour into, pour in, flow into, flow in, creep into, creep in, slip into, slip in, pop into, pop in, break into, break in, burst into, burst in; set foot on; ingress; burst in upon, break in upon; invade, intrude; insinuate itself; interpenetrate, penetrate; infiltrate; find one's way into, wriggle into, worm oneself into., give entrance to (receive); insert.
-adjectives
incoming.
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| Antonyms: | egress |
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| Main Entry: | access |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | admission, means of entry, approach |
| Synonyms: | admittance, approach, avenue, connection, contact, course, door, entrance, entree, entry, in, ingress, introduction, key, open arms, open door, passage, path, road, route, way |
| Antonyms: | egress, outlet |
| Main Entry: | admission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entering or allowing entry |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, access, admittance, certification, confirmation, designation, door, entrance, entree, ingress, initiation, introduction, permission, reception, recognition, way, welcome |
| Notes: | admission implies a physical entrance, whereas admittance implies some sort of procedural or merely formal entry; admission correlates with permission to move into a room or building but admittance correlates with acceptance into a group or organization admission falls short of an acknowledgment of all elements of a crime - which would be a confession |
| Antonyms: | denial, exclusion, expulsion, refusal |
| Main Entry: | admittance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | permission to enter |
| Synonyms: | access, entrance, entry, entrée, ingress, pass, passage, reception |
| Notes: | admission implies a physical entrance, whereas admittance implies some sort of procedural or merely formal entry; admission correlates with permission to move into a room or building but admittance correlates with acceptance into a group or organization |
| Main Entry: | aisle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | passageway dividing something |
| Synonyms: | alley, artery, avenue, clearing, corridor, course, egress, gangway, hallway, ingress, lane, opening, passage, path, walk, way |
| Notes: | the bride actually walks up the nave (from Latin navis 'ship') of a church, not one of the aisles (one of the two parts parallel to the nave) |
| Main Entry: | arrival |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coming to a destination |
| Synonyms: | accession, advent, alighting, appearance, approach, arriving, debarkation, disembarkation, dismounting, entrance, happening, homecoming, influx, ingress, landing, meeting, occurrence, return |
| Antonyms: | departure, disappearance, leave |
| Main Entry: | corridor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hallway |
| Synonyms: | aisle, couloir, entrance hall, entranceway, foyer, hall, ingress, lobby, passage, passageway |
| Main Entry: | door |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entrance to room, building |
| Synonyms: | aperture, egress, entry, entryway, exit, gate, gateway, hatch, hatchway, ingress, opening, portal, postern, slammer |
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