Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A going in or entering.
- noun Right or permission to enter.
- noun A means or place of entering.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In astrology, to transit the place which any of the four moderators has reached by direction.
- To go in or enter.
- noun A going in; the act of entering or passing in; entrance.
- noun Provision for going in; a place of entrance: as, the ingress and egress are on opposite sides.
- noun In astronomy, the entrance of the sun into a sign of the zodiac, or of a planet upon the disk of the sun in a transit; in astrology, the transit over the part of the zodiac occupied by the sun, moon, medium cæli, or ascendant.
- noun In canon law. See
access , 7.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To go in; to enter.
- noun The act of entering; entrance.
- noun Power or liberty of entrance or access; means of entering.
- noun (Astron.) The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
act ofentering . - noun
Permission toenter . - noun A
door or other means of entering. - verb intransitive To
intrude orinsert oneself - verb transitive, US To
enter (a specified location or area) - verb intransitive, astrology, of a planet To enter into a zodiacal sign
- verb To manifest or cause to be manifested in the temporal world; to effect
ingression
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of entering
- noun (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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None of the people I talked to or heard from admitted to witnessing anything more than moderate use on L-2, light use on L-1, and none at all on launch day before cabin ingress or scrub.
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None of the people I talked to or heard from admitted to witnessing anything more than moderate use on L-2, light use on L-1, and none at all on launch day before cabin ingress or scrub.
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The 500-year-old bridge has been suffering "severe problems" with water ingress, which is eroding the masonry.
BBC News - Home 2011
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The eternal objects that "ingress" into any actual entity are something like its predicates or qualities; except that no entity can be defined as just the sum of its predicates or qualities, because it is not just a collocation of characteristics (which would be to return to "subject-predicate forms of thought").
Warren Ellis 2010
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Between a family history of back problems and a recently-replaced knee joint (and another likely in the future), small cars that require any kind of ingress / egress agility simply aren't in the cards for them.
AutoblogGreen 2009
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The flat, featureless terrain between the Persian Gulf and Baghdad forced the United States to create "ingress" routes for Tomahawk missiles for Operation Desert Storm in 1991 that took the missiles over Iran Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey:
ArmsControlWonk 2009
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P.S. I hope the Mag Light is only used for ingress and egress during the dark hours ... or that could explain some of his success ....
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Unlike previous efforts at three-door coupes, including the Mini Clubman and Mazda RX8, the door opens independently of the front and swings wide enough to make ingress/egress easy.
A Bargain-Priced Hatch Dan Neil 2011
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The office staff was as confused as I was as to the purpose of my visit, so I excused myself and tried to retreat to the warrens from whence I emerged but found myself unable to open the door that would grant me ingress to the tunnels.
The Rainbow Clockwerkz Hugh Barlow 2012
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P.S. I hope the Mag Light is only used for ingress and egress during the dark hours ... or that could explain some of his success ....
bilby commented on the word ingress
"The decor in the colonnade was an incongruous mix of wall-to-wall carpets over marble floors and wireless security cameras gazing down from beside carved cherubs in the ceiling. Langdon dubbed it Sterile Renaissance. Beside the arched ingress hung a small bronze plaque."
- 'Angels and Demons', Dan Brown.
February 28, 2008
seanahan commented on the word ingress
The WordNet definition is confusing. Doesn't the celestial object disappear when the eclipse starts?
February 29, 2008