The difference between Egress and Enter

When used as verbs, egress means to exit or leave, whereas enter means to go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.

Egress is also noun with the meaning: an exit or way out.

check bellow for the other definitions of Egress and Enter

  1. Egress as a noun:

    An exit or way out.

    Examples:

    "The window provides an egress in the event of an emergency."

  2. Egress as a noun:

    The process of exiting or leaving.

  3. Egress as a noun (astronomy):

    The end of the apparent transit of a small astronomical body over the disk of a larger one.

  1. Egress as a verb (intransitive):

    To exit or leave; to go or come out.

  1. Enter as a verb (intransitive):

    To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.

    Examples:

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

  2. Enter as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

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

  3. Enter as a verb (figuratively):

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

    Examples:

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

  4. Enter as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "'Enter your user name and password."

  5. Enter as a verb (transitive):

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

  6. Enter as a verb (intransitive, law):

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

  7. Enter as a verb (law, intransitive):

    To become effective; to come into effect.

  8. Enter as a verb (legal):

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

  9. Enter as a verb (transitive, legal):

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

    Examples:

    "to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment"

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  10. Enter as a verb:

    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.

  11. Enter as a verb (transitive, US, dated, historical):

    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.

  12. Enter as a verb:

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

    Examples:

    "entered according to act of Congress"

  13. Enter as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To initiate; to introduce favourably.

  1. Enter as a noun (computing):

  2. Enter as a noun (computing):

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