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INGRESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
she made a grand entrance
Synonyms:
entering; entrance; entry; incoming; ingress
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("ingress" is a kind of...):
arrival (the act of arriving at a certain place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ingress"):
incursion (the act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers))
intrusion (entrance by force or without permission or welcome)
irruption (a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in)
entree (an entrance, especially a theatrical entrance onto a stage or as if onto a stage)
enrollment; enrolment; registration (the act of enrolling)
penetration (the act of entering into or through something)
admission; admittance (the act of admitting someone to enter)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
Synonyms:
immersion; ingress
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ingress" is a kind of...):
disappearance (the event of passing out of sight)
Domain category:
astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)
Holonyms ("ingress" is a part of...):
eclipse; occultation (one celestial body obscures another)
Antonym:
egress ((astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb ingress