different between entry vs portcullis

English

Alternative forms

• entery (chiefly archaic)

Etymology

From Old French entree (feminine past participle of the verb entrer, Modern French entrée). From Latin intr?re, present active infinitive of intr?.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n?tr?, IPA^(key): /??nt?i/
• Rhymes: -?nt?i
• Hyphenation: en?try

Noun

entry (countable and uncountable, plural entries)

1. The act of entering.
2. (uncountable) Permission to enter.

   Children are allowed entry only if accompanied by an adult.

3. A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
4. (law) The act of taking possession.
5. (insurance) The start of an insurance contract.
6. (Midlands) A passageway between terraced houses that provides a means of entering a back garden or yard.
7. A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
8. A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
9. An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
10. A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.

    What does the entry for 2 August 2005 say?

11. (linear algebra) A term at any position in a matrix.

    The entry in the second row and first column of this matrix is 6.

12. The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence 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.
13. (music) The point when a musician starts to play or sing; entrance.
14. (hunting) The introduction of new hounds into a pack.
    • 1956, Baily's Hunting Directory (page 311)

      Here was an excellent entry of hounds which would have fulfilled the late Earl Bathurst's dictum that breeders should always breed from hounds rather larger than those which they expect to put on.

Usage notes

Ambiguity Prevention

Synonyms

• (act of entering): access, enter, entrance
• (permission to enter): access, admission
• (doorway that provides a means of entering a building): entrance, ingang, way in (British)
• (passageway between terraced houses): See Thesaurus:alley
• (room just inside the front door of a building): See Thesaurus:entrance hall
• (group within a church):
• (article in a dictionary or encyclopedia): article, lemma, lexeme
• (record in a log): record
• (term in a matrix): element
• (item of data in a database):

Antonyms

• (act of entering): departure, exit, exiting, leaving
• (doorway that provides a means of entering a building): exit, way out (British)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Tyner, yrent

English

Alternative forms

• portclose (archaic)
• portcluse (obsolete)
• portculis (rare)
• portculleis (archaic)
• portculles (archaic)
• port cullis, port-cullis (archaic)
• portecullis, porte-cullis (rare)

Etymology

From Middle English portcolyse, from Anglo-Norman porte coliz and Old French porte couleice, from porte (“door”) + feminine of couleis (“sliding”), from couler (“to flow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??t?k?l?s/

Noun

portcullis (plural portcullises or portcullisses or (rare) portscullis)

1. A gate in the form of a grating which is lowered into place at the entrance to a castle, fort, etc.
2. (historical) An English coin of the reign of Elizabeth I, struck for the use of the East India Company, and bearing the figure of a portcullis on the reverse.

Translations

Verb

portcullis (third-person singular simple present portcullises, present participle portcullising, simple past and past participle portcullised)

1. To obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to shut; to bar.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Richard II

     ...Within my mouth you have engaol'd my tongue / Doubly portcullis'd with my teeth and lips...

Further reading

• portcullis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia