The difference between Enter and Insert
When used as verbs, enter means to go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space, whereas insert means to put in between or into.
Insert is also noun with the meaning: an image inserted into text.
check bellow for the other definitions of Enter and Insert
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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."
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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."
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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."
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Enter as a verb (transitive):
To type (something) into a computer; to input.
Examples:
"'Enter your user name and password."
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Enter as a verb (transitive):
To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
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Enter as a verb (intransitive, law):
To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
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Enter as a verb (law, intransitive):
To become effective; to come into effect.
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Enter as a verb (legal):
To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
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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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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.
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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.
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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"
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Enter as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To initiate; to introduce favourably.
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Enter as a noun (computing):
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Enter as a noun (computing):
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Insert as a verb (transitive):
To put in between or into.
Examples:
"In order to withdraw money from a cash machine, you have to insert your debit card."
"To make your proof easier to understand, I recommend you insert a few more steps."
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Insert as a noun:
An image inserted into text.
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Insert as a noun:
A promotional or instructive leaflet inserted into a magazine, newspaper, tape or disk package, etc.
Examples:
"This software can print compact disc inserts if you have the right size of paper."
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Insert as a noun:
A mechanical component inserted into another.
Examples:
"a threaded insert"
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Insert as a noun (linguistics):
An expression, such as "please" or an interjection, that may occur at various points in an utterance.
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Insert as a noun (genetics):
A sequence of DNA inserted into another DNA molecule.