reenter

See also: reënter and re-enter

English

Alternative forms

• re-enter
• re-entre (obsolete)
• reentre (obsolete)
• reënter

Etymology

From re- +‎ enter.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

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.

   The shuttle reentered the atmosphere.

   • 1981 April 5, Theodore Solotaroff, “REVIVING THE ANCIENT ART OF EXECUTION”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     It is no accident that capital punishment is reentering our society on the wave of the conservative reaction to the permissiveness and laxity of the past two decades.

   • 1995 July 5, Norimitsu Onishi, “Tenement Is Briefly Seized In East Village”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     At least five people appeared briefly on the roof of the building, and squatters could be seen tossing firecrackers and building materials out of a window and shouting obscenities as the police moved into the area. But when officers finally reentered the building about 2 A.M., they found no one.

   • 2006, New York Murder Mystery: The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s‎^[3], page 241:

     Could this policy have helped to cut the crime rate significantly, especially in areas like New York with disproportionately large concentrations of undocumented and recent immigrants, some of whom were deeply involved in illegal activities? The crackdown could have made a difference if the deportables were in fact expelled, if alien ex-cons who wanted to reenter New York and wreak more havoc could not get back in the country, and if this get-tough policy had the intended effect of deterring unlawful impulses among recent immigrants who were not yet naturalized citizens

   • 2012, Frank Spellman, Revonna Bieber, Environmental Health and Science Desk Reference, page 831:

     As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste products are stripped off the media as sloughings. These sloughings are transported with the wastewater flow to a settling tank for removal.

2. (transitive, computing) To enter again; retype, reinput.

   We had to reenter a day's worth of data into the system.

3. (transitive, intransitive, engraving) To cut deeper where the aqua fortis has not bitten sufficiently.

Translations

to enter again

• Catalan: tornar a entrar
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 再入 (zh) (zàirù)

• Esperanto: reeniri
• Finnish: palata (fi)
• French: rentrer (fr)
• Italian: rientrare (it)
• Latin: intrō denuō (literally “to enter again”), redeō (la) (literally “to go back”)
• Occitan: rintrar
• Portuguese: reentrar (pt)
• Spanish: reingresar (es)

(computing) to enter again

• Dutch: opnieuw invoeren
• Esperanto: reenigi, re-entajpi
• Finnish: syöttää uudelleen

See also

• reentry

Anagrams

• Terrene, re-entre, reentre, enterer, Treneer, terreen, terrene