Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 37
Entitle (v. t.) To attribute; to ascribe. [Obs.]
The ancient proverb . . . entitles this work . . . peculiarly to God himself. -- Milton.
Syn: To name; designate; style; characterize; empower; qualify; enable; fit.
Entitle (v.) Give the right to; "The Freedom of Information Act entitles you to request your FBI file."
Entitle (v.) Give a title to [syn: entitle, title].
Entitle (v.) Give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility [syn: ennoble, gentle, entitle].
Entitule (v. t.) To entitle. -- B. Jonson.
Entities (n. pl. ) of Entity.
Entity (n.) A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.
Self-subsisting entities, such as our own personality. -- Shairp.
Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative signification. -- Bentley.
Entity (n.) That which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving).
Entity, () In an entity-relationship model, an entity is a type of thing being modeled such as "person" or "product." Different entities have different sets of attributes such as "name" or "price" and are connected via relationships like "bought". Entities are closely related to classes (class). (2009-11-22)
Ento- () A combining form signifying within; as, entoblast.
Entoblast (n.) (Biol.) The inner germ layer; endoderm. See Nucleolus.
Entoblast (n.) The inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems [syn: endoderm, entoderm, endoblast, entoblast, hypoblast].
Entobronchia (n. pl. ) of Entobronchium.
Entobronchium (n.) (Anat.) One of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds. Entocuneiform
Compare: Cuneiform, Cuniform
Cuneiform, Cuniform (a.) Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded.
Cuneiform, Cuniform (a.) Pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped characters, or the inscriptions in them. "A cuneiform scholar." -- Rawlinson. Cuneiform
Cuneiform, Cuniform (n.) The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. -- I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
Cuneiform, Cuniform (n.) (Anat.) (a) One of the three tarsal bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals. They are usually designated as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively.
Cuneiform, Cuniform (n.) (Anat.) (b) One of the carpal bones usually articulating with the ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare.
Cuneiform (a.) Shaped like a wedge [syn: wedge-shaped, cuneal, cuneiform].
Cuneiform (a.) Of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones).
Cuneiform (n.) An ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia.
Entocuneiform (n.) Alt. of Entocuniform.
Entocuniform (n.) (Anat.) One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.
Compare: Hypoblast
Hypoblast (n.) (Biol.) 【生】下胚葉；內胚層 The inner or lower layer of the blastoderm; -- called also {endoderm}, {entoderm}, and sometimes {hypoderm}. See Illust. of {Blastoderm}, {Delamination}, and {Ectoderm}.
Hypoblast (n.) The inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems [syn: {endoderm}, {entoderm}, {endoblast}, {entoblast}, {hypoblast}].
Blastoderm (n.) (Embryology) The early stage of an embryo after the first cleavages of the ovum; also, the layer of cells of which the early embryo is composed; specifically:
Blastoderm (n.) (a) The early embryo developing from a blastodisc, after the blastocoel has formed.
Blastoderm (n.) (b) In an insect embryo, the layer of cells that surrounds the internal mass of the yolk. Blastodermatic
Blastoderm (n.) A layer of cells on the inside of the blastula [syn: {blastoderm}, {germinal disc}, {blastodisc}, {germinal area}].
Hypoblast (n.) The inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems [syn: endoderm, entoderm, endoblast, entoblast, hypoblast].
Entoderm (n.) (Biol.) See Endoderm, and Illust. of Blastoderm. Entodermal
Entoderm (n.) The inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems [syn: endoderm, entoderm, endoblast, entoblast, hypoblast].
Entodermal (a.) Alt. of Entodermic.
Entodermic (a.) (Biol.) Relating to the entoderm.
Entogastric (a.) (Zool.) Pertaining to the interior of the stomach; -- applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids.
Entogenous (a.) (Biol.) See Endogenous.
Entoglossal (a.) (Anat.) Within the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone.
Entoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Entoil.
Entoiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Entoil.
Entoil (v. t.) To take with toils or bring into toils; to insnare. [R.]
Entoiled in woofed phantasies. -- Keats.
Entombed (imp. & p. p.) of Entomb.
Entombing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Entomb.
Entomb (v. t.) To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume. -- Hooker.
Entomb (v.) Place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday" [syn: bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest].
Entombment (n.) The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial. -- Barrow.
Entombment (n.) The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture].
Entomere (n.) (Biol.) The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals. Entomic
Entomic (a.) Alt. of Entomical.
Entomical (a.) (Zool.) Relating to insects; entomological.
Entomoid (a.) (Zool.) Resembling an insect.
Entomoid (n.) (Zool.) An object resembling an insect.
Entomolin (n.) (Chem.) See Chitin.
Entomolite (n.) (Paleon.) A fossil insect. Entomologic
Entomologic (a.) 昆蟲學的 Alt. of Entomological.
Entomological (a.) Of or relating to entomology. -- En`to*mo*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
Entomologic (a.) Of or relating to the biological science of entomology; "entomological research" [syn: entomological, entomologic].
Entomologist (n.) 昆蟲學家 One versed in entomology.
Entomologist (n.) A zoologist who studies insects [syn: entomologist, bugologist, bug-hunter].
Entomologize (v. i.) To collect specimens in the study of entomology. -- C. Kingsley.
Entomologies (n. pl. ) of Entomology.
Entomology (n.) 昆蟲學 That part of zoology which treats of insects.
Entomology (n.) A treatise on the science of entomology.
Entomology (n.) The branch of zoology that studies insects [syn: entomology, bugology].
Entomophaga (n. pl.) One of a group of hymenopterous insects whose larvae feed parasitically upon living insects. See Ichneumon, 2.
Entomophaga (n. pl.) A group of marsupials which are partly insectivorous, as the opossum.
Entomophaga (n. pl.) A group of edentates, including the ant-eaters.
Entomophagan (a.) (Zool.) Relating to the Entomophaga.
Entomophagan (n.) (Zool.) One of the Entomophaga.
Entomophagous (a.) (Zool.) Feeding on insects; insectivorous.
Entomophilous (a.) (Bot.) Fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects.
Entomophilous (a.) Of flowering plants (especially orchids etc) that are pollinated by insects [ant: anemophilous].
Entomostraca (n. pl.) (Zool.) 昆甲類 One of the subclasses of Crustacea, including a large number of species, many of them minute. The group embraces several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Cladocera.
Entomostraca (n.) In some older classifications includes the Branchiopoda and Copepoda and Ostracoda and Cirripedia; no longer in technical use [syn: Entomostraca, subclass Entomostraca].
Entomostracan (a.) (Zool.) Relating to the Entomostraca.
Entomostracan (n.) (Zool.) One of the Entomostraca.
Entomostracous (a.) (Zool.) Belonging to the Entomostracans.
Entomotomist (n.) One who practices entomotomy.
Entomotomy (n.) 昆蟲解剖學 The science of the dissection of insects.
Entonic (a.) (Med.) Having great tension, or exaggerated action. -- Dunglison.
Entoperipheral (a.) (Physiol.) Being, or having its origin, within the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. Opposed to epiperipheral.
Compare: Epiperipheral
Epiperipheral (a.) (Physiol.) Connected with, or having its origin upon, the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to the feelings which originate at the extremities of nerves distributed on the outer surface, as the sensation produced by touching an object with the finger; -- opposed to entoperipheral. -- H. Spenser.
Entophyte (n.) (Med.) A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.
Entophytic (a.) Of or pertaining to entophytes; as, an entophytic disease.
Entoplasm (n.) (Biol.) The inner granular layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum. Endosarc
Entoplasm (n.) (Biol.) Endosarc.
Compare: Endosarc
Endosarc (n.) (Biol.) The semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the am[oe]ba; entoplasm; endoplasta.
Entoplastic (a.) (Biol.) Pertaining to, or composed of, entoplasm; as, the entoplastic products of some Protozoa, or the entoplastic modification of the cell protoplasm, by which a nucleus is produced.
Entoplastra (n. pl. ) of Entoplastron.
Entoplastron (n.) (Anat.) The median plate of the plastron of turtles; -- called also entosternum.
Compare: Bryozoa
Bryozoa (n. pl.) (Zool.) A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa.
Note: They are often coralike in form and appearance, each small cell containing an individual zooid. Other species grow in delicate, flexible, branched forms, resembling moss, whence the name. Some are found in fresh water, but most are marine. The three principal divisions are Ectoprocta, Entoprocta, and Pterobranchia. See Cyclostoma, Chilostoma, and Phylactolema.
Entoprocta (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of Bryozoa in which the anus is within the circle of tentacles. See Pedicellina.
Entoprocta (n.) Sometimes considered a subphylum of Bryozoa [syn: Entoprocta, phylum Entoprocta, Endoprocta].
Entoptic (a.) (Physiol.) Relating to objects situated within the eye; esp., relating to the perception of objects in one's own eye.
Entorganism (n.) (Biol.) An internal parasitic organism.
Entortilation (n.) A turning into a circle; round figures. [Obs.] -- Donne.
Entosterna (n. pl. ) of Entosternum
Entoplastron (n.; pl. Entoplastra.) (Anat.) The median plate of the plastron of turtles; -- called also entosternum.
Entosternum (n.) (Anat.) See Entoplastron. -- En`to*ster"nal, a.
Entosthoblast (n.) (Biol.) The granule within the nucleolus or entoblast of a nucleated cell. -- Agassiz.
Entothorax (n.) (Zool.) See Endothorax.
Entotic (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to the interior of the ear.
Entozoa (n. pl.) (Zool.) 【動】內寄生蟲；內寄生動物（如絛蟲等） A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes.
Entozoa (n. pl.) (Zool.) An artificial group, including all kinds of animals living parasitically in others. Entozoal
Compare: Entozoon
Entozoon (n.; pl. Entozoa.) (Zo["o]l.) One of the Entozoa.
Entozoal (a.) Alt. of Entozoic.
Entozoic (a.) (Zool.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, the Entozoa.
Entozoic (a.) Living within a living animal usually as a parasite; "entozoic worms" [syn: entozoic, entozoan, endozoic] [ant: epizoic].
Entozoologist (n.) One versed in the science of the Entozoa.
Entozoa (n. pl. ) of Entozoon.
Entozoon (n.) (Zool.) One of the Entozoa.
Entr'acte (n.) 幕間休息；幕間插演節目；間奏曲 The interval of time which occurs between the performance of any two acts of a drama.
Entr'acte (n.) A dance, piece of music, or interlude, performed between two acts of a drama.
Entrail (v. t.) To interweave; to intertwine. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Compare: Interweave
Interweave (v. t.) [imp. & obs. p. p. interwove; p. p. interwoven; p. pr. & vb. n. interweaving.] 使交織；使混雜 To weave together; to intermix or unite in texture or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven.
Under the hospitable covert nigh Of trees thick interwoven. -- Milton.
Interweave (v. t.) To intermingle; to unite intimately; to connect closely; as, to interweave truth with falsehood. -- Dryden.
Words interwove with sighs found out their way. -- Milton.
Interweave (v.) Interlace by or as if by weaving [syn: weave, interweave] [ant: unweave].
Entrail (n.) Entanglement; fold. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Compare: Entanglement
Entanglement (n.) State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
Entanglement (n.) (Mil.) An extensive low obstacle formed of stakes, stumps, or the like, connected by wires, ropes, or the like.
Entanglement (n.) (Naut.) An obstruction of cables and spars across a river or harbor entrance.
Entanglement (n.) An intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim [syn: web, entanglement].
Entrails (n. pl.) [K] 內臟；腸；（物體的）內部 The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.
Entrails (n. pl.) The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth.
That treasure . . . hid the dark entrails of America. -- Locke.
Entrails (n.) Internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity); "`viscera' is the plural form of `viscus'" [syn: viscera, entrails, innards].
Entrain (v. t.) To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.
Entrain (v. t.) 使乘火車 To put aboard a railway train; as, to entrain a regiment. [Recent, Eng.]
Entrain (v. i.) 乘火車 To go aboard a railway train; as, the troops entrained at the station. [Recent, Eng.]
Entrain (v.) Board a train.
Entrammel (v. t.) 妨礙；束縛；限制 To trammel; to entangle. -- Bp. Hacket.
Entrance (n.) 入口，門口 [C] [（+to）]；進入，登場，就任，入學 [C] [U] 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.
Entrance (n.) Liberty, power, or permission to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.
Entrance (n.) The passage, door, or gate, for entering.
Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city. -- Judg. i. 24.
Entrance (n.) The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business. “Beware of entrance to a quarrel.” St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology. -- Hakewill.
Entrance (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.
Entrance (n.) (Naut.) (a) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Entrance (n.) (Naut.) (b) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
Entranced (imp. & p. p.) of Entrance.
Entrancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Entrance.
Entrance (v. t.) To put into a trance; to make insensible to present objects.
Him, still entranced and in a litter laid, They bore from field and to the bed conveyed. -- Dryden.
Entrance (v. t.) To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm.
And I so ravished with her heavenly note,
I stood entranced, and had no room for thought. -- Dryden.
Entrance (n.) (A2) [ C ] 入口；大門（口）；通道 A door, gate, etc. by which you can enter a building or place.
// There are two entrances - one at the front and one around the back.
Compare: Exit
Exit (n.) [ C ] (Door) (A2) （建築物或大型交通工具的）出口，安全門；（尤指演員）退場 The door through which you might leave a building or large vehicle, or the act of leaving something, especially a theatre stage.
// A fire exit (= a door you can escape through if there is a fire).
// An emergency exit.
// He saw Emma arrive and made a quick exit.
// She made her exit from the stage to rapturous applause.
Entrance (n.) (C2) [ C usually singular ] （演員的）入場，登場 The act of coming onto a stage, by an actor or dancer.
// He makes a spectacular entrance in act two draped in a gold sheet.
Entrance (n.) [ C usually singular ] 進入；進門 The act of a person coming into a room in an ordinary situation, although often because there is something noticeable about it.
// I noticed her entrance because she slipped and fell in the doorway.
Entrance (n.) (B1) [ U ] 進入權；進入許可 The right to enter a place.
// The management reserve the right to refuse entrance.
Entrance (v.) [ T ] (Literary) 使…著迷 Someone or something that entrances you is so beautiful or interesting that you cannot stop listening to or watching him, her, or it.
// He has entranced millions of people with his beautifully illustrated books.
Entrancement (n.) 歡天喜地；狂喜 The act of entrancing, or the state of trance or ecstasy.
Entrant (n.) 進入者；新學員；參加比賽者 One who enters; a beginner. "The entrant upon life." -- Bp. Terrot.
Entrant (n.) An applicant for admission. -- Stormonth.
Entrant (n.) A commodity that enters competition with established merchandise; "a well publicized entrant is the pocket computer."
Entrant (n.) Any new participant in some activity [syn: newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, newbie, entrant].
Entrant (n.) Someone who enters; "new entrants to the country must go though immigration procedures."
Compare: Immigration
Immigration (n.) [U] 移居；【美】（總稱）（外來的）移民 [S1] The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.
The immigrations of the Arabians into Europe. -- T. Warton.
Immigration (n.) Migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) [syn: immigration, in-migration].
Immigration (n.) The body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval; "the increased immigration strengthened the colony."
Immigration (n.) The removing into one place from another. It differs from emigration, which is the moving from one place into another. Vide Emigration.
Entrant (n.) One who enters a competition.
Compare: Competition
Competition (n.) 競爭，角逐 [U] [（+with/ between/ for）]；比賽，競賽；賽會 [C] [+to-v]；（總稱）競爭者；比賽對手 [U] The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.
Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be. -- Bacon.
A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competition. -- Dryden.
There is no competition but for the second place. -- Dryden.
Where competition does not act at all there is complete monopoly. -- A. T. Hadley.
Syn: Emulation; rivalry; rivalship; contest; struggle; contention; opposition; jealousy. See Emulation.
Competition (n.) A business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers; "business competition can be fiendish at times."
Competition (n.) An occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants [syn: contest, competition].
Competition (n.) The act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams were in fierce contention for first place" [syn: competition, contention, rivalry] [ant: cooperation].
Competition (n.) The contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing" [syn: rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender].
Entrapped (imp. & p. p.) of Entrap.