"reenter" meaning in English

See reenter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: reenters [present, singular, third-person], reentering [participle, present], reentered [participle, past], reentered [past]
Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ) Etymology: From re- + enter. Etymology templates: {{af|en|re-|enter}} re- + enter Head templates: {{en-verb}} reenter (third-person singular simple present reenters, present participle reentering, simple past and past participle reentered)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To enter again; return into. Tags: intransitive, transitive
    Sense id: en-reenter-en-verb-7Po4KnwN
  2. (transitive, computing) To enter again; retype, reinput. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-reenter-en-verb-WLDTbEOC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with re-, English terms with vowel pseudo-digraphs, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Occitan translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 54 30 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with re-: 29 40 30 Disambiguation of English terms with vowel pseudo-digraphs: 18 50 32 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 13 65 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 20 52 28 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 58 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 10 60 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 13 57 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 9 62 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 9 63 29 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 13 56 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 9 63 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 9 63 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 13 61 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Occitan translations: 9 60 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 9 63 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 10 62 28 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  3. (transitive, intransitive, engraving) To cut deeper where the aqua fortis has not bitten sufficiently. Tags: intransitive, transitive
    Sense id: en-reenter-en-verb-CA8WaaDP Topics: arts, crafts, engraving, hobbies, lifestyle
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: re-enter, re-entre [obsolete], reentre [obsolete], reënter Related terms: reentry Translations ((computing) to enter again): opnieuw invoeren (Dutch), reenigi (Esperanto), re-entajpi (Esperanto), syöttää uudelleen (Finnish) Translations (to enter again): tornar a entrar (Catalan), 再入 (zàirù) (Chinese Mandarin), reeniri (Esperanto), palata (Finnish), rentrer (French), rientrare (Italian), intrō denuō (Latin), redeō (Latin), rintrar (Occitan), reentrar (Portuguese), reingresar (Spanish)
Disambiguation of '(computing) to enter again': 46 53 1 Disambiguation of 'to enter again': 49 50 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.