Definition of entry

• n. - The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking.
• n. - The act of making or entering a record; a setting down in writing the particulars, as of a transaction; as, an entry of a sale; also, that which is entered; an item.
• n. - That by which entrance is made; a passage leading into a house or other building, or to a room; a vestibule; an adit, as of a mine.
• n. - The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n., 5.
• n. - The actual taking possession of lands or tenements, by entering or setting foot on them.
• n. - A putting upon record in proper form and order.
• n. - The act in addition to breaking essential to constitute the offense or burglary.