re-enter

See also: reenter and reënter

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

Verb

re-enter (third-person singular simple present re-enters, present participle re-entering, simple past and past participle re-entered)

1. 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.

See also

• re-entry/reentry

Anagrams

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