Enter and Tell

Enter

Enter verb - To go or come in or into.

Tell and enter are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tell" instead a verb "Enter".

Nearby Words: entry, entered, entering

Tell

Tell verb - To give an oral or written account of in some detail.

Enter and tell are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Enter" instead a verb "Tell".

Nearby Words: telling, teller

Mutual synonyms

Common collocations

name enter name tell name
time enter time tell time
world enter world tell world
story enter story tell story

Both words in one sentence

  • Hand Signals When the SWAT team is about to enter the elevator, the team leader makes a "pull down" gesture to the rest of the team to tell them to enter the elevator and pull open the hatch in the ceiling.
    Source: Hand Signals
  • Temporal Paradox Whatever you say to him now, he will tell you later, when you enter the "green mist" again.
  • Film / The Black Cat Most of the conversation is in English, but when the two policemen first enter the introductions are in Hungarian, with Werdegast having to tell them that the Allisons are Americans.
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