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Noun: entry  en-tree
  1. An item inserted in a written record
     
  2. The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
    - initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration, debut, first appearance, launching, unveiling
     
  3. A written record of a commercial transaction
    - accounting entry, ledger entry
     
  4. Something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)
    "several of his entries were rejected by publishers";
    - submission, submittal [N. Amer]
     
  5. Something that provides access (to get in or get out)
    "they waited at the entry to the garden";
    - entrance, entranceway, entryway, entrée
     
  6. The act of entering
    "she made a grand entry";
    - entrance, entering, ingress, incoming
     
  7. (computing) an item of data in a database

Derived forms: entries

Type of: access, accounting, accounting system, approach, arrival, beginning, commencement, content, message, method of accounting, start, subject matter, substance, written account, written record

Encyclopedia: Entry, descent and landing