entrance

Everyday

1. An entrance is a door, gate or opening where you go into a place. tree →
2. An entrance is the act of coming in, like an actor coming on stage. tree →
3. Entrance is the right to go in, as in an entrance fee. tree →
4. As a verb (stress on «TRANCE»), to entrance someone is to fill them with wonder. tree →

In the lessons

In everyday life buildings have a main entrance and emergency exits; tickets pay the entrance fee. In stories a character «makes a grand entrance». In maths problems an entrance fee is a price per person. Phrases: «the main entrance», «entrance fee», «make an entrance», «entrance exam».

Examples

• Meet me at the main entrance. tree →
• The entrance to the cave was dark. tree →
• The entrance fee is five dollars for children. tree →
• The queen made a grand entrance. tree →
• The school entrance is on the other side. tree →
• The music entranced the audience. tree →
• If the entrance fee is 3 pounds each, 4 children pay 12 pounds. tree →
• The name glittered in gas-jets over the entrance. tree →

Note

The noun is stressed on the first part, «EN-trance»; the verb on the second, «en-TRANCE». Opposite of the noun: «exit». Safety: learn where the exits are, not only the entrance.

In Jewish tradition

In the Torah it can mean a gateway or a border point, like the entrance to Hamath at the edge of the Promised Land.

Interpretation. In Sefer Yetzirah the "modes of entrance" are the 231 pairings of the 22 Hebrew letters, read as the gates through which all things are made.

Examples

• So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, at the entrance to Hamath. (Torah NUM.13.21, JPS 1917) tree →
• from mount Hor ye shall mark out a line unto the entrance to Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad; (Torah NUM.34.8, JPS 1917) tree →
• These twenty-two letters, the foundations, He arranged as on a sphere, with two hundred and thirty-one modes of entrance. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →
• So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-posts of olive-wood, within a frame four-square; (Prophets 1KI.6.33, JPS 1917) tree →
• And for the entrance of the Sanctuary he made doors of olive-wood, the door-posts within the frame having five angles. (Prophets 1KI.6.31, JPS 1917) tree →
• And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell many wounded, even unto the entrance of the gate. (Prophets JDG.9.40, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

The noun is stressed on the first part, «EN-trance»; the verb on the second, «en-TRANCE». Opposite of the noun: «exit». Safety: learn where the exits are, not only the entrance.