ingress

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Noun[edit]

ingress (plural ingresses)

  1. The act of entering.
  2. Permission to enter.
    All ingress was prohibited.
  3. A door or other means of entering.
  4. (astronomy) The entrance of the Moon into the shadow of the Earth in eclipses, or the Sun's entrance into a sign, etc.

Antonyms[edit]

  • (act of entering): egress
  • (door or other means of entering): egress

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Verb[edit]

ingress (third-person singular simple present ingresses, present participle ingressing, simple past and past participle ingressed)

  1. (intransitive) To intrude or insert oneself
    • 1963, Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift: A Novel[1], page 198:
      "Were you asleep? Did I disturb you?" he would ask, seeing Fyodor flat on his back on the sofa, and then, ingressing entirely, he would shut the door tightly behind him and sit by Fyodor 's feet
    • 2001, Lynda Schor, “My Death”, in Moyra Davey editor, Mother Reader[2], ISBN 1583220720, page 310:
      When the tub was full I ingressed into the water gently, insinuating my body in a bit at a time, enjoying the sensual pleasure of the extreme heat on the lower part of my body […]
  2. (transitive, US, chiefly military) To enter (a specified location or area)
    • 1976, The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia: Aces and Aerial Victories[3], page 108:
      "We ingressed North Vietnam over Cam Pha on a westerly heading," reported Captain Madden.
    • 1998, Michael William Donnelly, Falcon's Cry[4], ISBN 0275964620, page 93:
      We were ingressing the target area.
  3. (intransitive, astrology, of a planet) To enter into a zodiacal sign
    • 1861 December 28, “Almanacs”[5], All the Year Round, volume VI: 
      The middle of March finds " Mars ingressing upon the 16th degree of Capricorn, where the sun has arrived in the nativity of Lord Palmerston," […]
  4. (Whiteheadian metaphysics) To manifest or cause to be manifested in the temporal world; to effect ingression

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Noun[edit]

ingress c

  1. a preamble, an opening paragraph (between a newspaper headline and the article)

Declension[edit]

Declension of ingress
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Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
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