door
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
computing
cycling
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *dur, from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr, from *dʰwer- (“doorway, door, gate”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots door (“door”), Saterland Frisian Doore (“door”), West Frisian doar (“door”), Dutch deur (“door”), German Low German Door, Döör (“door”), German Tür (“door”), Tor (“gate”), Danish, Norn, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk dør (“door”), Swedish dörr (“door”), Faroese and Icelandic dyr (“door”), Asturian, Aragonese and Spanish fuera (“outside”), Catalan, Leonese, and Portuguese fora (“outside”), French hors (“outside”), Galician fóra (“outside”), Italian fuori (“outside”), Mirandese fuora (“outside”), Latin foris and foras (“outside”), Ancient Greek θύρα (thúra), Albanian derë (“door”), Central Kurdish دەرگە (derge, “door”), Northern Kurdish derî (“door”), Persian در (dar, “door”), Belarusian дзве́ры (dzvjéry, “door”), Bulgarian две́ри (dvéri, “royal doors”), Czech dveře (“door”), Latvian durvis (“door”), Lithuanian durys (“door”), Macedonian двер (dver, “door”), Polish drzwi (“door”), Russian дверь (dverʹ), Serbo-Croatian dvȇri (“door”), dvar (“door”), Ukrainian две́рі (dvéri, “door”), Hindi द्वार (dvār, “door”), Armenian դուռ (duṙ, “door”), Irish doras (“door”), Sanskrit द्वार (dvāra, “door”).
Despite similarities in spelling, not cognate with Dutch door, which is instead cognate with English through.
Inflected forms:
form: doors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: doore
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: durre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: doors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dooring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: doored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: doored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: doore
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: durre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. It may have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold it closed, and a lock that ensures it cannot be opened without a key.
pos: noun
examples: I knocked on the vice president's door.
That's the door to the bathroom.
bathroom door, bedroom door, doorkey, exterior door, interior door
Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
gloss: A building with a door, especially a house.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
metonymically
examples: His house is three doors down.
He went five doors up the road to the bank.
We walked three doors up the street where we stopped in front 71 Richard D. Kutz.
"...The storage room is about, oh, three doors down, on the left. I'll point it out as we go by. Pay attention so you know where you have to come back to. Only then it'll be — let me see — about five doors down on your right."
A woman pushes a stroller in the direction of the synagogue, and another, just one door down from Pessie's apartment, is unloading groceries from her minivan.
gloss: Any flap, etc., that opens like a door.
pos: noun
examples: the 24 doors in an Advent calendar
cupboard door
gloss: An entry point.
pos: noun
gloss: A means of approach or access.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Learning is the door to wisdom.
gloss: A possibility.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: to leave the door open
all doors are open to somebody
gloss: A barrier.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Keep a door on your anger.
gloss: A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: The proceeds from entrance fees and/or ticket sales at a venue such as a bar or nightclub, especially in relation to portion paid to the entertainers.
pos: noun
examples: The bar owner gives each band a percentage of the door and charges customers more to get in.
gloss: To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Kerr has acted for numerous clients who have been doored, including one man knocked off his bike and on to spiked railings, and another who ended up hitting a tree.
He [Pete Karageorgos] said cyclists who are doored are entitled to claim accident benefits from the driver's insurer if they aren't covered by a policy of their own.
To avoid being doored, cyclists such as Vilain, Davis-Overstreet and Michael Schneider monitor as many telltale signs as possible: shadows, brake lights, the actions of people sitting in the driver's seat.
Derived words: a creaking door hangs longest
a creaking door hangs long on its hinges
a golden key can open any door
air door
ashdump door
at church every time the doors are open
at church every time the doors swing open
at Death's door
at death's door
at someone's door
at the door
at the door of
attic door
automatic door
back door
back-door pilot
baize door
bang down the door
bang like a dunny door
bang like a dunny door in a gale
bang like a shithouse door
bang on the door
bang the door down
barn door
barndoor
barn doors
beat Jack out of doors
beat my neighbour out of doors
beat your neighbour out of doors
behind closed doors
blower door
blow the doors off
boy next door
boy-next-door
build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door
butterfly door
car door
carriage door
cat door
cellar-door
cellar door
central door locking
check at the door
church door
church-door
clack door
closed door
close one's doors
close the door
close the door on
close the stable door after the horse has bolted
darken a church door
darken someone's door
dead door
death door
dock door
dog door
doggie door
don't let the door hit you on the way out
door alarm
door-bell
doorbell
door bitch
door brake
doorbuster
doorbusting
doorcase
door chain
doorcheek
door closer
Door County
door drawer
door entry system
doorflap
door frame
door-frame
doorframe
doorgame
door game
door god
door handle
doorhanger
door hinge
door-in-the-face technique
doorjamb
doorkeeper
door-keeper
door-knob
door knob
doorknob
doorknock
doorknocker
door knocker
doorlatch
doorleaf
doorless
doorlike
doorline
doormaid
doormaker
doormaking
doorman
door-mat
doormat
door money
doornail
door-nail
door nail
door opener
doorperson
door phone
doorphone
doorplate
door plug
door-post
doorpost
door-prize
door prize
door pump
door seal
doorside
doorsill
doorslab
doorslam
doorsman
door snail
doors of perception
doorstaff
doorstead
doorstep
doorstone
doorstop
doorstopper
door to door
door-to-door
doorwall
doorward
doorwards
doorway
doorweed
door wench
doorwise
doorwoman
dooryard
double door
double doors
Dutch door
early door
early doors
fairy door
false door
firedoor
fire door
five-door
five-piece door
foot-in-the-door technique
foredoor
four-door
four door house
French door
funeral door
garage door
garage door opener
gentleman of the back door
get one's foot in the door
get the door
girl next door
girl-next-door
glass door
glass-door
go in the out door
green door
half-door
house-door
house door
ice delivery door
ice door
in church every time the doors are open
indoor
in-doors
Jack out of doors
jib door
Katy bar the door
keep the wolf from the door
key of the door
key to the door
kick at an open door
kicking at an open door
kitty bar the door
kitty door
knicky-knocky-nine-doors
knock at the door
knock at the door of
knocking on heaven's door
knock on heaven's door
knock on the door of
Lamborghini door
lay at someone's door
lay something at the door of
leave at the door
leave the door open
let the door hit you where the good Lord split you
lie at one's door
lie at someone's door
make a better door than a window
milk delivery door
milk door
mother-in-law door
multidoor
next-door
next door
nicky-nicky-nine-doors
one foot out the door
one's door is open
on the door
open door
open-door
open door policy
open-door policy
open doors
open its doors
open the door
opportunity knocks at every man's door
outdoor
out-of-door
out-of-doors
out of doors
overdoor
panic door
patio door
pet door
platform door
platform edge door
platform screen door
plug door
pocket door
poor door
push against an open door
revolving door
revolving door syndrome
revolving-door syndrome
sash door
scissor door
screen door
screen-door effect
Shaker door
show somebody the door
show someone the door
shut the door
shut the door on
shut the front door
side door
slam-door
slam door
slam the door
slam the door on
sporting door
stage door
stagedoor
stage-door Johnny
storm-door
storm door
suicide door
swing door
swinging door
swinging-door chad
text door neighbour
the wolf is at the door
three-door
trapdoor
trap door
trap-door
up and over door
video door entry
video door-phone
when God closes a door he opens a window
when one door closes, another opens
with closed doors
within-doors
without-door
withoutdoors
wolf at the door
your barn door is open
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