entry
n.
opening through which one enters, entrance; act of entering; record, information entered (in a book, list, etc.)
Entrance
Entry
(n.)
The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n., 5.
(n.)
The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.
(n.)
The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item.
(n.)
The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking.
(n.)
The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary.
(n.)
That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine.
(n.)
A putting upon record in proper form and order.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
entry
Certain conditions must be met when immigrants wish to enter a country. Though EU Member States have their own immigration policy, the EU is promoting common standards in this area. (See
Immigration)
Entry
Any coming of an alien into the United States, from a foreign port or place or from an outlying possession, whether voluntarily or otherwise, except that an alien having a lawful permanent residence in the United States shall not be regarded as making an entry into the United States for the purposes of the immigration laws if the alien proves to the satisfaction of the Attorney General that his departure to a foreign port or place or to an outlying possession was not intended or reasonably to be expected by him or his presence in a foreign port or place or in an outlying possession was not voluntary: Provided, That no person whose departure from the United States was occasioned by deportation proceedings, extradition, or other legal process shall be held to be entitled to such exception. 8 U.S.C.