See Also: Faroese Krona(finance)
entrance(1)(dictionary)
entrance(2)(dictionary)
Entrance(medicine)
entrance block(medicine)
entrance 1, noun(dictionary)
entrance 2, verb(dictionary)
entrance pupil(medicine)
Common Entrance Examination, the(dictionary)
Service Entrance Deli(tourism)

Faroese Krona (finance) and entrance(1) (iou)


Faroese Krona (finance)


The Faroese Krona is the official national currency of the Faroe Islands. One Faroese Krona is divided into 100 Oyra units.





entrance(1) (iou)



entrance noun. L15.
[Old French, from entrer ENTER verb: see -ANCE.]
Power, right, or opportunity of entering; admission. L15.
J. Galsworthy One paid a shilling for entrance and another for the programme. C. S. Forester A door..which gave entrance to a smaller room.
b. More fully entrance fee. A charge made for being allowed to enter or join. M17.
The action of coming or going in; Music = ENTRY 1c. E16.
A. Radcliffe La Motte was interrupted by the entrance of the ruffian. S. Spender The entrance of the whole orchestra at the end of a fugal introduction.
b. The action of entering into an office, duty, etc. M16.
c. An act of coming on stage by an actor or actress. L16.
The beginning (of a period of time etc.); the first part (of a book etc.). M16-M18.
A means by which something is entered; a door, a gate, a passage, etc.; the mouth of a river; a point of entering something. M16.
G. M. Trevelyan Gladstone..made competitive examination the normal entrance to the Civil Service. J. Weidman I walked in through the Broadway entrance..then out the Thirty-Eighth Street side.
The action of entering or Writing up in a record; something so entered. L16-M19.
The forward part of a ship's hull below the water-line. L18.
Phrases: Great Entrance in Orthodox Churches, the procession in which bread and Wine are brought to the altar during the Liturgy. Lesser Entrance, Little Entrance in Orthodox Churches, the ceremony in which the book of the Gospels is laid on the altar during the Liturgy.
Comb.: entrance fee: see sense 1b above; entrance form: filled in by someone applying to be admitted to an organization, esp. a college or school; entrance wound: made by a bullet etc. where it enters the body.