"Enter" meaning in English

See Enter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Enters [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Enter (plural Enters)
  1. The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard.
    Sense id: en-Enter-en-noun-4YdeninZ
  2. A stroke of the Enter key. Categories (topical): Buttons Translations (key): eniga klavo (Esperanto), syöttönäppäin (Finnish), palautusnäppäin (Finnish), enter-näppäin (Finnish), enter [colloquial] (Finnish), एंटर (eṇṭar) [feminine] (Marathi), tasta Enter f. (Romanian), ввод (vvod) [masculine] (Russian), intro [masculine] (Spanish) Translations (stroke of said key): enterin painallus (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-Enter-en-noun-~ei3eSfB Disambiguation of Buttons: 40 60 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 80 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 26 74 Disambiguation of 'key': 40 60 Disambiguation of 'stroke of said key': 26 74
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: enter

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "_dis1": "40 60",
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    },
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      "sense": "stroke of said key",
      "word": "enterin painallus"
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