ingress

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=gress

CIDE DICTIONARY

ingress, n. [L. ingressus, fr. ingredi. See Ingredient.].

•  The act of entering; entrance; as, the ingress of air into the lungs.  [1913 Webster]
•  Power or liberty of entrance or access; means of entering; as, all ingress was prohibited.  [1913 Webster]
•  The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc.  [1913 Webster]

ingress, v. i. 

 To go in; to enter.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ingress, n.
1 the act or right of going in or entering.
2 Astron. the start of an eclipse or transit.

Derivative

ingression n.

Etymology

ME f. L ingressus (as INGREDIENT)

THESAURUS

ingress

access, adit, admission, admittance, air lock, approach, channel, come in, conduit, corridor, course, ditch, duct, egress, entrance, entranceway, entree, entry, entryway, exit, gangplank, gangway, go in, hall, in, ingression, inlet, intake, means of access, opening, passage, passageway, penetrate, trench, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel, vestibule, way, way in

ROGET THESAURUS

ingress

Ingress

N ingress, entrance, entry, introgression, influx, intrusion, inroad, incursion, invasion, irruption, ingression, penetration, interpenetration, illapse, import, infiltration, immigration, admission, insinuation, insertion, inlet, way in, mouth, door, barway, path, conduit, immigrant, incoming.

VB have the entree, enter, go into, go in, come into, come in, pour into, pour in, flow into, flow in, creep into, creep in, slip into, slip in, pop into, pop in, break into, break in, burst into, burst in, set foot on, ingress, burst in upon, break in upon, invade, intrude, insinuate itself, interpenetrate, penetrate, infiltrate, find one's way into, wriggle into, worm oneself into, give entrance to, insert.

Passage

N passage, transmission, permeation, penetration, interpenetration, transudation, infiltration, endosmose exosmose, endosmosis, intercurrence, ingress, egress, path, conduit, opening, journey, voyage, passing, intercurrent, endosmosmic, endosmotic, en passant.