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INGRESS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of entering

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:

Nouns denoting natural events

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

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