re-enter
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Verb
[edit]re-enter (third-person singular simple present re-enters, present participle re-entering, simple past and past participle re-entered)
- Alternative spelling of reenter
- 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, pages 124–125:
- They all attended in the hall to see him mount his horse, and immediately on re-entering the breakfast room, Catherine walked to a window in the hope of catching another glimpse of his figure.
- 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, pages 333–334:
- Still, a strong reluctance to re-enter a service from which he had been dismissed with contempt, almost counterbalanced these considerations.
- 1963 September, “Fire risk on diesels”, in Modern Railways, page 148:
- [...] however, the rebuilding of the latter with Davey Paxman Ventura engines has already begun and the first modified locomotive recently re-entered service between Glasgow and Dundee.
- 2022 August 30, Gladys Tsai, Jorge Engels, Jennifer Deaton,, “Taiwan fires warning shots at unidentified drone near islands”, in CNN[1], archived from the original on 30 August 2022[2]:
- Taiwanese soldiers on Tuesday fired flares at three unidentified drones that flew near Kinmen County, an offshore grouping of islands, before firing warning shots at one drone which re-entered the area above one of the islands, according to the Kinmen Defense Command.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:re-enter.