(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.
Stoop
Definition:
(n.) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
(n.) A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
(n.) A post fixed in the earth.
(v. i.) To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
(v. i.) To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
(v. i.) To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
(v. i.) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
(v. i.) To sink when on the wing; to alight.
(v. t.) To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
(v. t.) To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
(v. t.) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
(v. t.) To degrade.
(n.) The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
(n.) Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
(n.) The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
Example Sentences:
(1) Özil showed great determination to get into the six-yard area, sprinting forwards and turning in the cross with a stooping header.
(2) In case the muscles cannot compensate the anterior stooping, the spine can be taken back straight by posterior pelvic tilting.
(3) Her stooped figure shuffles slowly in, manoeuvring a giant shopping trolley around the door.
(4) Anyone who allows himself to stoop to such polemics shows that they are running out of proper arguments”, said Jürgen Hardt, the foreign affairs spokesman for Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats.
(5) Mark Boylan, who has a condition called neurofibromatosis which causes large tumours to grow on the face, said: "As a genuine Top Gear fan, I was gutted the presenters felt the need to stoop to such a low level.
(6) I look at it from an investigators' standpoint, because I didn't have anything to do with it of course, because I would never stoop as low as to do anything like that, but I do understand that in that case, the peanuts went in through the sunroof, and then filled the entire car to the very top.
(7) His inswinging ball eluded Winston Reid at the front post but found Antonio, whose stooping header came off his marker Deeney and past the bewildered Heurelho Gomes.
(8) Motor evaluation disclosed moderate bradykinesia, rigidity and rest tremor, shuffling gait, poor facial mimic, stooped posture, and his speech was low and monotonous; deep tendon reflexes were brisk.
(9) If the reaction to another Gawker story last year, since taken down, that possibly outed an executive is any indication, most news outlets already think of themselves as better and more virtuous than Gawker – they would never stoop so low as to publish a sex tape in the first place.
(10) He told parliament Australia would “never stoop to the level of those who hate us and fight evil with evil” but might have to shift “the delicate balance between freedom and security”.
(11) Even the CSKA Moscow manager Leonid Slutsky (come, come, let's not stoop that low) says the pitch is about as good as the club's recent results - their last 10 games in all competitions look like this: P10 W4 D1 L5.
(12) Their resistance broke only once, on 83 minutes, when Müller stole in behind Cole to score with a stooping header.
(13) United had threatened only sporadically before the stooping header from Evans made it 1-0.
(14) Between severe low back pain and both stooping or kneeling a dose-response relationship was found.
(15) Dynamic (trunk flexion-extension, lateral rotation-standing, stooping) and static (quiet sitting, rotation-sitting) movements were performed over a ten second interval.
(16) We stopped by a bridge and stooped to let a troop of macaques take pieces of fruit from our hands.
(17) Gerrard takes a booming corner to the far post, punched out by Heaton and when the ball breaks on the edge of the box Mason stoops to head it clear just as Skrtel tries to volley it.
(18) Bayern Munich 1-0 Barcelona (Muller 24) Thomas Muller stoops to head the ball past Victor Valdes from close range at the far post.
(19) There is the stoopingly low chair from which he wrote; and an ornamental gold dog Tolstoy slept with under his pillow as a boy.
(20) Presenting complaints were fatigue, pain and a stooped posture.