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ingress en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈɪŋɡɹɛs/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Latin ingressus, from the verb ingredior.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of entering.
   • Now could be beheld that change from the handsome to the curious which the features of a wood undergo at the ingress of the winter months. 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter VII, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
   • Accordingly, anti-Israeli terrorists turned to city transport. Railway systems depend on easy ingress and egress at numerous points along the route. 2005 July 22, Mark Lawson, “Public enemy number two”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
   • An inner floor over the whole area of the deck provides a space for all the cable and pipe runs. On one side the cables are cleated into a duct which is sealed against the ingress of water and oil; the pipe lines run underneath the opposite side floor. 1960 April 14, “Type "3" Diesel-Electric Locomotives for the Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 239:
   • I could find no means of ingress. Every window and door was fastened and locked, and I returned baffled to the porch. 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:
   • Looking about him while in this state of suspense, Charles Darnay observed that the gate was held by a mixed guard of soldiers and patriots, the latter far outnumbering the former; and that while ingress into the city for peasants’ carts bringing in supplies, and for similar traffic and traffickers, was easy enough, egress, even for the homeliest people, was very difficult. 1859, Charles Dickens, “In Secret”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book III (The Track of a Storm), page 168:
2. (countable, uncountable) A permission to enter.
   • All ingress was prohibited.
   • My fingers clawed futilely at the unyielding portal, while my eyes sought in vain for a duplicate of the button which had given us ingress. And then, from unseen lips, a cruel and mocking peal of laughter rang through the desolate place. 1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., September 1918, →OCLC:
3. (countable, uncountable) A door or other means of entering.
4. (countable, uncountable) The entrance of the Moon into the shadow of the Earth in eclipses, or the Sun's entrance into a sign, etc.

Forms

Antonyms

egress · egress

Deriveds

ingressive · ingress, egress, and regress

Relateds

ingredient

Translations (32)

tr giriş (door or other means of entering) · de Eintritt (act of entering) · de Zutritt (permission to enter) · es entrada (door or other means of entering) · ru вход (door or other means of entering) · ru вход (act of entering) · tr girme salahiyeti (permission to enter) · ru до́ступ (permission to enter) · fr entrée (act of entering) · es entrada (act of entering) · got 𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐍄𐌲𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (door or other means of entering) · da indledning (act of entering) · uk входження (act of entering) · da adgang (permission to enter) · uk вхід (act of entering) · de Zugang (door or other means of entering) · es ingreso (act of entering) · got 𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐍄𐌲𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (act of entering) · tr giriş yetkisi (permission to enter) · tr girme (act of entering) · fi sisääntulo (act of entering) · ru вхожде́ние (act of entering) · bg вход (act of entering) · de Eintrittsrecht (permission to enter) · bg влизане (act of entering) · da indgang (door or other means of entering) · es ingreso (door or other means of entering) · tr giriş (act of entering) · de Eingang (door or other means of entering) · fi sisäänkäynti (door or other means of entering) · fr entrée (door or other means of entering) · tr girme yetkisi (permission to enter)

ingress en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɪŋˈɡɹɛs/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Latin ingressus, from the verb ingredior.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To intrude or insert oneself
   • "Were you asleep? Did I disturb you?" he would ask, seeing Fyodor flat on his back on the sofa, and then, ingressing entirely, he would shut the door tightly behind him and sit by Fyodor 's feet 1963, Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift: A Novel, page 198:
   • When the tub was full I ingressed into the water gently, insinuating my body in a bit at a time, enjoying the sensual pleasure of the extreme heat on the lower part of my body […] 2001, Lynda Schor, “My Death”, in Moyra Davey, editor, Mother Reader, →ISBN, page 310:
2. (US, transitive) To enter (a specified location or area)
   • We were ingressing the target area. 1998, Michael William Donnelly, Falcon's Cry, →ISBN, page 93:
   • "We ingressed North Vietnam over Cam Pha on a westerly heading," reported Captain Madden. 1976, The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia: Aces and Aerial Victories, page 108:
3. (intransitive, of a planet) To enter into a zodiacal sign
   • The middle of March finds " Mars ingressing upon the 16th degree of Capricorn, where the sun has arrived in the nativity of Lord Palmerston," […] 1861 December 28, “Almanacs”, in All the Year Round, volume VI:
4. (qualifier:Whiteheadian metaphysics) To manifest or cause to be manifested in the temporal world; to effect ingression

Forms

Deriveds

ingressive · ingression · ingressor

Relateds

retrogress · congress · egress · progress · regress