entrance
part of speech
noun (an entrance, entrances); verb (entrance, entrances, entranced, entrancing — to delight)
meaning for a pupil
1) An entrance is a door, gate or opening where you go into a place. tree →
2) An entrance is the act of coming in, like an actor coming on stage. tree →
3) Entrance is the right to go in, as in an entrance fee. tree →
4) As a verb (stress on «TRANCE»), to entrance someone is to fill them with wonder. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life buildings have a main entrance and emergency exits; tickets pay the entrance fee. In stories a character «makes a grand entrance». In maths problems an entrance fee is a price per person. Phrases: «the main entrance», «entrance fee», «make an entrance», «entrance exam».
examples
- Meet me at the main entrance. tree →
- The entrance to the cave was dark. tree →
- The entrance fee is five dollars for children. tree →
- The queen made a grand entrance. tree →
- The school entrance is on the other side. tree →
- The music entranced the audience. tree →
- If the entrance fee is 3 pounds each, 4 children pay 12 pounds. tree →
- The name glittered in gas-jets over the entrance. tree →
note
The noun is stressed on the first part, «EN-trance»; the verb on the second, «en-TRANCE». Opposite of the noun: «exit». Safety: learn where the exits are, not only the entrance.
In the corpora
- Marmot families live in big burrows with many entrances and sleep through winter for about half the year.
- Some areas have grammar schools with their own separate entrance test, the 11-plus, which is not the SATs.
- A good meeting point is easy to find and does not move, such as a big sign or the entrance gate.
- So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, at the entrance to Hamath.
- And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell many wounded, even unto the entrance of the gate.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «entrance» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.