What's the difference between enter and intromission?

Enter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea.
  • (v. t.) To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army.
  • (v. t.) To engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc.
  • (v. t.) To pass within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new dispensation.
  • (v. t.) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted; as, to enter a knife into a piece of wood, a wedge into a log; to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.
  • (v. t.) To inscribe; to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name, or a date, in a book, or a book in a catalogue; to enter the particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of merchandise at the customhouse.
  • (v. t.) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
  • (v. t.) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order; as, to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment.
  • (v. t.) To make report of (a vessel or her cargo) at the customhouse; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper officer of the customs for estimating the duties. See Entry, 4.
  • (v. t.) To file or inscribe upon the records of the land office the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right pf preemption.
  • (v. t.) To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress."
  • (v. t.) To initiate; to introduce favorably.
  • (v. i.) To go or come in; -- often with in used pleonastically; also, to begin; to take the first steps.
  • (v. i.) To get admission; to introduce one's self; to penetrate; to form or constitute a part; to become a partaker or participant; to share; to engage; -- usually with into; sometimes with on or upon; as, a ball enters into the body; water enters into a ship; he enters into the plan; to enter into a quarrel; a merchant enters into partnership with some one; to enter upon another's land; the boy enters on his tenth year; to enter upon a task; lead enters into the composition of pewter.
  • (v. i.) To penetrate mentally; to consider attentively; -- with into.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
  • (2) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
  • (3) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
  • (4) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
  • (5) Escherichia enterotoxigenic strains, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium virulent strains, Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates possess more pronounced capacity for adhesion to enteric cells of Peyer's plaques than to other types of epithelial cells, which may be of importance in the pathogenesis of these infections.
  • (6) No report can be taken seriously if its authors weren’t even in Yemen to conduct investigations.” The UN team was not given permission to enter the country.
  • (7) It is concluded that TRH is a specific activator of enteric excitatory pathways and that duodenal inhibition seen in control animals is a consequence of gastro-duodenal inhibitory reflexes.
  • (8) Each patient contributed only once to each phase (105 in phase 1, 107 in phase 2), but some entered both phases on separate occasions.
  • (9) With the stimulated liver being irradiated, the number of cells synthetizing DNA and entering into mitosis was seen reduced almost twice, whereas DNA synthesis and entering into mitosis were delayed, resp., by 4 and 6 hours.
  • (10) The purposes of this study were to assess the career development needs of entering medical students as measured by the Medical Career Development Inventory and to examine gender differences in responses to the inventory.
  • (11) She said that even as she approached the gates, she was debating with the boy’s father whether to let the first-grader enter.
  • (12) Four patients entered puberty during the first year of treatment.
  • (13) It is clear that before general release of a new living feline infectious enteritis vaccine, there must be satisfactory evidence that concurrent infection will not affect the safety of the modified antigen.In cats infected with feline infectious enteritis there appears to be a short period, coinciding with the onset of leucopaenia, during which they are highly infectious.
  • (14) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
  • (15) In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
  • (16) The flow of a specified concentration of test gas exits from the mixing board, enters a distributing tube, and is then distributed equally to 12 chamber tubes housing one mouse each.
  • (17) After Listeria, a bacterium, is phagocytosed by a macrophage, it dissolves the phagosomal membrane and enters the cytoplasm.
  • (18) Whereas the tight junctions of endoneurial capillaries are known to prevent certain blood-borne substances from entering the endoneurium, it was not clear whether the permeability of the pulpal capillaries, which are distant from the nerve fibres, could affect the nerve fibre environment.
  • (19) His arm was being held by Muntari who let go of it as he entered the penalty area.
  • (20) Of the protein that did enter the gel, the higher MW species elicited banding patterns similar to patterns observed under reducing conditions, whereas lower MW IgE binding bands were lost.

Intromission


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of sending in or of putting in; insertion.
  • (n.) The act of letting go in; admission.
  • (n.) An intermeddling with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Local application of 8-OH-DPAT (0-5 micrograms) into the median raphe nucleus, facilitated male rat sexual behavior, as evidenced by a decrease in number of intromissions preceding ejaculation and in time to ejaculation.
  • (2) The hymen was not penetrated as a result of intromission and therefore the site of ejaculation would have been in the urogenital canal of the 4 primigravid elephants.
  • (3) On the other hand, the values of the instantaneous frequency, duration, and rhythmicity of the copulatory thrusting movements performed during mounts, intromissions or ejaculations did not differ significantly from the values obtained under saline treatment.
  • (4) No differences in anxiety were found between the group of animals without sexual activity and the group of animals tested after five intromissions of the first ejaculatory series.
  • (5) Preliminary investigations indicate that discrete electrolytic lesions to the lateral and posterior parvocellular hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) abolished this ejaculation-associated increase in CSF OT, prolonged mount and intromission latencies and reduced the absolute postejaculatory interval (PEI).
  • (6) MP-AH lesions reduced or completely eliminated the display of manual contacts of the partner, mounts, intromissions and ejaculations without interfering with masturbation.
  • (7) When the III between short intromissions from a rested male was experimentally increased to 100 s by use of a halter and lead device, the duration of lordosis was significantly less than that displayed by females paired with control males (8-s III) and virtually the same as that displayed by females paired with males that produced only long intromissions.
  • (8) In normal mating, house mice vary dramatically in the number and duration of intromissions that precede ejaculation.
  • (9) Impairment of male sexual behavior was indicated by an increase in ejaculation latency, in the number of mounts and a decrease in the number of ejaculations up to 30 min after the first intromission.
  • (10) Surprisingly, intromissive performance was significantly better in intact breeding males than in castrates given even the highest dosage of TP.
  • (11) All currently available devices provide a penile shaft rigid enough for intromission, but because all devices occupy only the corpora cavernosa, the erect penis will not be as long or as great in circumference as the patient's physiologic erections once were.
  • (12) Only two mounts and no intromissions were observed in 6 rats during the test period.
  • (13) The lowest dose of apomorphine (0.2 microgram) infused into the ventricle reduced the number of ejaculations, slowed the rate of intromitting and decreased the percentage of mounts on which the male gained vaginal intromission.
  • (14) One should keep in mind that the goal is to have a stallion behave in a disciplined manner, allowing for his expression of libido and effective mounting, intromission, and ejaculation.
  • (15) Pre- and postnatal nicotine treatment did not affect the overall sexual performance of the male rats, although the number of mounts and intromissions during a second series decreased.
  • (16) The probability of autogrooming was higher, and the duration longer, after mounts that ended mount bouts and after intromissions, than after mounts that were incorporated within a mount bout.
  • (17) Prior to any drug treatment, middle-aged males (13 months of age) exhibited prolonged latencies to ejaculation and intervals between intromissions when compared to young male rats (3 months of age).
  • (18) In males with intact noradrenaline, 5-MeODMT facilitated sexual behavior by reducing the number of intromissions required for ejaculation; inhibitory actions were also noted, since 5-MeODMT prolonged intromission and ejaculation latencies.
  • (19) Sexual activity of each mouse (number of ejaculations and intromissions) was estimated under competitive conditions between the ages of 120 and 150 days in eleven repetitions.
  • (20) Numbers of mounts, intromissions, ejaculations, postejaculatory songs, and the intromission and ejaculatory patterns were like those of control rats, although the decorticate rats had fewer mount bouts and showed abnormalities in the execution of movements.