Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 38
Entrapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Entrap
Entrap (v. t.) 使投羅網；欺騙；使陷入 To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men.
A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of men. --Shak.
Syn: To insnare; inveigle; tangle; decoy; entangle.
Entrap (v.) Take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police" [syn: {ensnare}, {entrap}, {frame}, {set up}].
Entrap (v.) Catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes" [syn: {trap}, {entrap}, {snare}, {ensnare}, {trammel}].
Entreated (imp. & p. p.) of Entreat
Entreating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Entreat
Entreat (v. t.) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
Entreat (v. t.) To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
Entreat (v. t.) To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.
Entreat (v. t.) To invite; to entertain.
Entreat (v. i.) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
Entreat (v. i.) To make an earnest petition or request.
Entreat (n.) Entreaty.
Entreatable (a.) That may be entreated.
Entreatance (n.) Entreaty.
Entreater (n.) One who entreats; one who asks earnestly; a beseecher.
Entreatful (a.) Full of entreaty. [R.] See Intreatful.
Entreatingly (adv.) In an entreating manner.
Entreative (a.) Used in entreaty; pleading.
Entreatment (n.) Entreaty; invitation.
Entreaties (n. pl. ) of Entreaty
Entreaty (n.) Treatment; reception; entertainment. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
Entreaty (n.) 【文】懇求；乞求 [C] [U] The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation.
Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. -- Spenser.
Syn: Solicitation; request; suit; supplication; importunity.
Compare: Beseech
Beseech (v.) (besought, beseeched) (v. t.) 懇求；哀求 [（+for）] [O2]；乞求，急切地要求得到 [Literary] [R eporting verb] Ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat.
[With object and infinitive] ‘They beseeched him to stay.’
[With object and direct speech ]‘“You have got to believe me,” Gloria beseeched him.’
[With object] ‘They earnestly beseeched his forgiveness.’
[As adjective beseeching] ‘A beseeching gaze.’
Entreaty (n.) Earnest or urgent request; "an entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to the public to keep calm" [syn: entreaty, prayer, appeal].
Entree (n.) A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entree of a house.
Entree (n.) In French usage, a dish served at the beginning of dinner to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.
Entremets (n. sing. & pl.) A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.
Entremets (n. sing. & pl.) Any small entertainment between two greater ones.
Entrench (v. t.) See Intrench.
Entrenchment (n.) 掘壕溝，壕溝，防衛工事 The act of intrenching or the state of being intrenched. [syn: {Intrenchment}].
Entrenchment (n.) An entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches. [syn: {Intrenchment}].
Entrenchment (n.) The act or process of entrenching.
Entrenchment (n.) An entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches [syn: {entrenchment}, {intrenchment}].
Entrepot (n.) A warehouse; a magazine for depositing goods, stores, etc.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepot for shipping goods in transit.
Entrepreneur (n.) 企業家；事業創辦者；承包人 One who takes the initiative to create a product or establish a business for profit; generally, whoever undertakes on his own account an enterprise in which others are employed and risks are taken. -- F. A. Walker.
Entrepreneur (n.) Someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it [syn: {entrepreneur}, {enterpriser}].
Entresol (n.) 【法】【建】半樓（底層與二樓之間的低矮閣樓） A low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine.
Entresol (n.) Intermediate floor just above the ground floor [syn: {mezzanine}, {mezzanine floor}, {entresol}].
Entrick (v. t.) To trick, to perplex.
Entrochal (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the joints of encrinites; -- used of a kind of stone or marble.
Entrochite (n.) A fossil joint of a crinoid stem.
Entropion (n.) Same as Entropium.
Entropium (n.) The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.
Entropy (n.) (Thermodynamics) 【物】熵（熱力學函數） A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves the body the quantity increases or diminishes. If a small amount, h, of heat enters the body when its temperature is t in the thermodynamic scale the entropy of the body is increased by h / t. The entropy is regarded as measured from some standard temperature and pressure. Sometimes called the thermodynamic function.
The entropy of the universe tends towards a maximum. -- Clausius.
Entrust (v. t.) 信託，委託；託管 [（+to/ with）] See {Intrust}.
Entrust (v.) Confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God" [syn: {entrust}, {intrust}, {trust}, {confide}, {commit}].
Entrust (v.) Put into the care or protection of someone; "He left the decision to his deputy"; "leave your child the nurse's care" [syn: {entrust}, {leave}].
Entries (n. pl. ) of Entry
Entry (n.) The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking.
Entry (n.) The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item.
Entry (n.) That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine.
Entry (n.) The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n., 5.
Entry (n.) The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.
Entry (n.) A putting upon record in proper form and order.
Entry (n.) The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary.
Entryng (n.) Am entrance.
Entune (v. t.) To tune; to intone.
Entwine (v. t.) To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round.
Entwine (v. i.) To be twisted or twined.
Entwinement (n.) A twining or twisting together or round; union.
Entwist (v. t.) To twist or wreathe round; to intwine.
Enubilate (v. t.) To clear from mist, clouds, or obscurity.
Enubilous (a.) Free from fog, mist, or clouds; clear.
Enucleated (imp. & p. p.) of Enucleate
Enucleating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enucleate
Enucleate (v. t.) 【古】解釋；【醫】摘出（腫瘤等）；【生】除去細胞核 To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.
Enucleate (v. t.) (Med.) To remove without cutting (as a tumor).
Enucleate (v. t.) To bring to light; to make clear. -- Sclater (1654).
Enucleate (v.) Remove the nucleus from (a cell).
Enucleate (v.) Remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover.
Enucleation (n.) The act of enucleating; elucidation; exposition.
Enumerated (imp. & p. p.) of Enumerate
Enumerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enumerate
Enumerate (v. t.) To count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a special and separate account of; to recount; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation.
Enumeration (n.) 計數；列舉；細目 The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.
Enumeration (n.) A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed.
Enumeration (n.) A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.
Enumeration (n.) A numbered list [syn: {enumeration}, {numbering}].
Enumeration (n.) The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order; "the counting continued for several hours" [syn: {count} {counting}, {numeration}, {enumeration}, {reckoning}, {tally}].
Enumerative (a.) Counting, or reckoning up, one by one.
Enumerator (n.) One who enumerates.
Enunciable (a.) Capable of being enunciated or expressed.
Enunciated (imp. & p. p.) of Enunciate
Enunciating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enunciate
Enunciate (v. t.) 清晰地發（音）；發表；宣布；明確表明 To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.
The terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel. -- Coleridge.
Enunciate (v. t.) To make distinctly audible; to utter articulately; to pronounce; as, to enunciate a word distinctly.
Enunciate (v. i.) 清晰地發音 To utter words or syllables articulately.
Enunciate (v.) Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" [syn: pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say].
Enunciate (v.) Express or state clearly [syn: articulate, enunciate, vocalize, vocalise].
Enunciation (n.) 清晰的發音；表明；宣言 The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation of an important truth.
By way of interpretation and enunciation. -- Jer. Taylor.
Enunciation (n.) Mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or articulation; as, to speak with a clear or impressive enunciation.
Enunciation (n.) That which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; an announcement; a formal declaration; a statement.
Every intelligible enunciation must be either true or false. -- A. Clarke.
Enunciation (n.) The articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience [syn: enunciation, diction].
Enunciative (a.) 發音的；宣布的；說明的 Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation; declarative. -- Ayliffe. -- E*nun"ci*a*tive*ly, adv.
Enunciator (n.) 發音者；宣布者；說明者 One who enunciates or proclaims.
Enunciatory (a.) 表明的；宣言的；發音清晰的 Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation or utterance.
Enure (v. t.) See Inure.
Enuresis (n.) An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.
Envassal (v. t.) To make a vassal of.
Envault (v. t.) To inclose in a vault; to entomb.
Enveigle (v. t.) To entice. See Inveigle.
Enveloped (imp. & p. p.) of Envelop
Enveloping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Envelop
Envelop (v. t.) To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship.
Nocturnal shades this world envelop. -- J. Philips. Envelope
Envelope (n.) Alt. of Envelop
Envelop (n.) That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.
Envelop (n.) (Astron.) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma.
Envelop (n.) (Fort.) A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it. -- Wilhelm.
Envelop (n.) (Geom.) A curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents.
Envelop (n.) A set of limits for the performance capabilities of some type of machine, originally used to refer to aircraft. Now also used metaphorically to refer to capabilities of any system in general, including human organizations, esp. in the phrase push the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine.
Push the envelope To increase the capability of some type of machine or system; -- usually by technological development.
Envelop (v.) Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; "Fog enveloped the house" [syn: envelop, enfold, enwrap, wrap, enclose].
Envelopment (n.) [U] 包，裹；封；封皮；包圍 The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides.
Envelopment (n.) That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.
Envelopment (n.) The act of enclosing something inside something else [syn: {enclosure}, {enclosing}, {envelopment}, {inclosure}].
Envenime (v. t.) To envenom.
Envenomed (imp. & p. p.) of Envenom
Envenoming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Envenom
Envenom (v. t.) 使有毒；毒化；使含惡意 To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom.
Alcides . . . felt the envenomed robe. --Milton.
O, what a world is this, when what is comely Envenoms him that bears it! -- Shak.
Envenom (v. t.) To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter.
The envenomed tongue of calumny. -- Smollett.
On the question of slavery opinion has of late years been peculiarly envenomed. -- Sir G. C. Lewis.
Envenom (v.) Cause to be bitter or resentful; "These injustices embittered her even more" [syn: {embitter}, {envenom}, {acerbate}].
Envenom (v.) Add poison to; "Her husband poisoned her drink in order to kill her" [syn: {poison}, {envenom}].
Envermeil (v. t.) To color with, or as with, vermilion; to dye red. [Obs.] -- Milton.