(n.) The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.
(n.) Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.
(n.) The passage, door, or gate, for entering.
(n.) The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business.
(n.) The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.
(n.) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
(n.) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
(v. t.) To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.
(v. t.) To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.
Example Sentences:
(1) We were instantly refused entrance by the heavies at the door.
(2) A facility for keeping chickens free of Marek's disease (MD) was obtained by adopting a system of filtered air under positive pressure (FAPP) for ventilation, and by imposing restrictions on entrance of articles, materials and personnel.
(3) In every center the average whole-breast dose to a reference organ (5 cm thick, composed of 50% fat + 50% water) was calculated on the basis of entrance exposure, HVL, and focus-skin distance; in 63.2% of the centers doses less than 0.15 cGy were employed.
(4) A catheter was placed in the epidural space, with entrance through L3-L4 and its extreme in L1.
(5) But despite gendarmes keeping watch at entrances to the village, one local police officer said there were five times more journalists than security forces.
(6) A line iterative technique is described to solve numerically the resulting coupled system of nonlinear partial differential equations with physiologically relevant boundary and entrance conditions.
(7) Motile sperm were seen at the uterine entrance to the uterotubal junction (UTJ) in all females at 1-2 h pc, but in fewer females at later times.
(8) Many businessmen like it.” At the entrance to Jiang’s swish showroom, customers are welcomed by posters of a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother, standing beside Land Rovers.
(9) Various tests to assess arthritis were performed upon each patient's entrance into the study and at specified intervals throughout the 24-month study period.
(10) UNCONFIRMED reports of men wounded March 18, 2014 Ed Flanagan (@edmundflanagan) Entrance to base.
(11) The police officers guarding the entrance to Japan's nuclear evacuation zone barely glance at Yukio Yamamoto's permit before waving him through.
(12) Hypoxemia was progressive from the time of entrance of the bronchoscope into the respiratory tree and continued into the immediate postbronchoscopic period when the mean fall was about 16 mm Hg.
(13) Rather, they will likely restrict their entrance by way of the most traditional route.
(14) The entrance window is 12 microns Melinex foil with a thin aluminium surface.
(15) The vesicles exhibited apparent "entrance" I- counterflow but no apparent Na+-dependent I- transport activity.
(16) Main issues of health entrancing job design are: (1) Essential approaches of prevention are to be reevaluated.
(17) A worker gestures at one of the entrances of the Lisbon harbour during a strike by Portuguese harbour workers, in Lisbon September 17, 2012.
(18) Near the entrance was a sprawling camp kitchen, with mountains of supplies, indoor and outdoor facilities and open fires on which some of the cooking was done, and all of the gigantic vats of coffee seemed to be boiled.
(19) These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the physiological activity observed with both PAES and PAESe may be related to their ability to gain entrance to adrenergic neurons and decrease norepinephrine synthesis within neurotransmitter storage vesicles.
(20) Spectral differences in image size are proportional to the eye's longitudinal chromatic aberration and the axial distance between the entrance pupil and nodal point.
Spellbound
Definition:
(a.) Bound by, or as by, a spell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The past in all its mortal beauty’: Las Meninas, the 1656 Velazquez masterpiece that held Laura Cumming spellbound at the Prado in Madrid.
(2) Alfred Hitchcock also used Peck effectively in Spellbound (1945), where his outward solidity masks a serious phobia.
(3) Last year's final, won by acrobatic troupe Spellbound, averaged 12.3 million viewers, according to overnight figures .
(4) It is a messianism he combines with the tousled good looks of an ageing matinée idol and an undeniable charisma that at TED in Oxford four years ago had some members of the audience spellbound.
(5) When pressed, he refers to a film called Spirit, which could be Spellbound, and another called The Crazy Man, which surely has to be Psycho (although the title rather gives the game away).
(6) The 50-minute address held the chamber, which was packed with ambassadors and supreme court justices as well as senators and House representatives, spellbound, a feat seldom seen even during presidents’ State of the Union speeches.
(7) Malcolm Turnbull’s peacock performance on Monday night’s Q&A kept his adoring audience spellbound.
(8) A scattered collection of Scots watched, headed by the loud knights Sean Connery and Alex Ferguson – as well Andy's delighted mother, Judy – as a final that arrived a day late due to a rain-made postponement, the fifth here in five years, held New Yorkers spellbound.
(9) At a screening of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones in 2002, my son Barney, who was eight, was spellbound, but my eldest daughter, Rosie, then nine years old, kept trudging off to the toilets.
(10) They are interspersed with trees: even they, according to the poet Ovid's account of the tale, were held spellbound by his song.
(11) Artist Salvador Dalí was endlessly excited by Freud's work on dreams, while film-makers such as Alfred Hitchcock, who made the thrillers Spellbound and Marnie in response to Freud, were directly influenced by the clinical doctrines of psychiatry and psychology.
(12) I was spellbound by Brook's distillation of the story back to its essence: a love tragedy.
(13) In films such as Spellbound (1945), Knock on Wood (1954), Sex and the Single Girl (1964), They Might be Giants (1971), and The Man Who Loved Women (1983), women analysts are swept away by countertransference love that leads them to become sexually or romantically involved with their male patients.
(14) Bruno was spellbound, and there wasn't a person in the land who wasn't screaming "that was magic!".
(15) Yet his audience were spellbound by a speech in which he used his Irish charm, humour and passion to remind us that so long as we truly listened and put the patient first, all would be well in psychiatry."
(16) A beautifully designed book-app that will keep both children and adults spellbound.
(17) That may have had something to do with chemicals in the air at the time but, extraordinarily, I’ve experienced exactly that same extra-dimensional feeling of spectral, spellbound awe when listening to him (stone cold, Spotified sober this time round) singing Lazarus from beyond the grave.
(18) What has struck me most has been the reaction of people all over the world who were spellbound by the golf; for all the people involved, not only me, we have been blown away by the reception in Asia, Australia.
(19) Almost 13.5 million saw gymnastics troupe Spellbound win Britain's Got Talent , putting it in sixth place, just ahead of the final of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, which was won by singer Stacey Solomon three weeks ago and watched by 13.4 million.
(20) Instead of being constantly spellbound by leaps in technology, we need a bigger debate to assess their strengths and weaknesses to find those that will best support the type of world we want to save and create.