Other forms: entries
In diving, the entry is the moment the diver meets the water. A clean entry, no splash on entry, the entry cost him the medal.
Judges look for a vertical body and almost no splash — the rip entry, named for the sound. It is the last thing a dive is judged on and often the difference between two scores. Elsewhere, an entry is the act of going in — no entry, forced entry — and also a written item: a diary entry, a dictionary entry, an entry in the competition. Note entry-level, meaning the lowest rank or cheapest version.
1nounentryThe moment a diver meets the water.
“The entry was almost silent and the score went up.”
2nounactThe act of going into a place.
“There were signs saying no entry on both gates.”
3nounitemA written item in a list, diary or competition.
“The last entry in the diary is three days before.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
entry is a going in, or a written item.
Old French entree comes from Latin intrare, to go in, from intra, within. Enter, entrance and entry are all the same verb, and the written sense comes from entering a name in a book.
Latin
intrō
Old French
entree
Middle English
entre
English, today
entry
Middle English entre, from Old French entree (feminine past participle of the verb entrer, Modern French entrée). From Latin intrō. a doublet of entrada and entrée.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA