ingress

ingress
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Act of entering
Nouns
1. ingress; entrance, entry, entrée, introgression; influx; intrusion, inroad, incursion, invasion, irruption; penetration, interpenetration; import, infiltration; access, admission, admittance, reception; insinuation (see between); insertion. See approach.
2. port of entry; antechamber (see receptacle); inlet; way in; mouth, door, opening, path, way; conduit, channel, passage; immigration.
3. incomer, immigrant, colonist, alien; entrant; newcomer; fifth column; illegal alien (see illegality).
Verbs — enter, step in[side]; go, come, pour, flow, creep, slip, pop, break, or burst in; gain entrée; set foot on; burst or break in upon; invade, intrude; insinuate itself or oneself; penetrate, interpenetrate; infiltrate; find one's way into, wriggle into, worm oneself into; trespass; give entrance to, receive, insert; bore from within. Informal, breeze in. Slang, crash [the gate].
Adjectives — ingressive; incoming, ingoing, inward; entrant.
Phrases — a door must be either shut or open; when one door shuts another opens.
Quotations — Not many sounds in life... exceed in interest a knock at the door (Charles Lamb).
Antonyms, see egress.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [The act or right of entering]
Syn. entrance, admission, access; see entrance 1 , intrusion .
2. [Opening]
Syn. doorway, entry, portal; see door 1 , entrance 2 , gate .
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The act of entering: entrance1, entry. See ENTER. 2. The right to enter or make use of: access, admission, admittance, entrance1, entree, entry. See ENTER. 3. The state of being allowed entry: admission, admittance, entrance1, ingression, introduction, intromission. See ACCEPT.

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