entrenchment
- n an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches
entrepot
- n a port where merchandise can be imported and then exported without paying import duties
Bahrain has been an entrepot of trade between Arabia and India since the second millennium BC - n a depository for goods
entrepreneur
- n someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it
entric
- n rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals
entropy
- n (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome
- n (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work
entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity
entry
- n an item inserted in a written record
- n the act of beginning something new
- n a written record of a commercial transaction
- n something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)
- n something that provides access (to get in or get out)
beggars waited just outside the entryway to the cathedral - n the act of entering
entry word
- n the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary