door
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”).
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dô, IPA(key): /dɔː/
- (General American) enPR: dôr, IPA(key): /dɔɹ/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: dōrʹ, IPA(key): /do(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /doə/
- (non-rhotic, dough–door merger, African-American Vernacular) IPA(key): /doʊ/
Audio (UK): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophone: d'or
- Homophone: daw (non-rhotic)
- Homophone: dour (in one pronunciation, with the pour–poor merger)
- Homophone: dough (dough–door merger)
Noun
[edit]door (plural doors)
- 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.
- I knocked on the vice president's door
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- ‘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.’
- Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
- the 24 doors in an Advent calendar
- (immigration) An entry point.
- (figurative) A means of approach or access.
- Learning is the door to wisdom.
- (figurative) A possibility.
- to leave the door open
- all doors are open to somebody
- (figurative) A barrier.
- Keep a door on your anger.
- (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
- 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.
- The bar owner gives each band a percentage of the door and charges customers more to get in.
Hyponyms
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[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- dog door
- doggie door
- don't let the door hit you on the way out
- door-bell
- door bitch
- door brake
- door chain
- door closer
- Door County
- door drawer
- door frame
- door-frame
- doorgame
- door game
- door god
- door handle
- door hinge
- door-in-the-face technique
- door-keeper
- door-knob
- door knob
- door knocker
- doorman
- door-mat
- door money
- door-nail
- door nail
- door opener
- door phone
- door plug
- door-post
- door-prize
- door prize
- door pump
- door seal
- doorsill
- door snail
- doors of perception
- doorstep
- doorstop
- door-to-door
- door to door
- doorway
- door wench
- double door
- double doors
- Dutch door
- early door
- early doors
- fairy door
- fire door
- foot-in-the-door technique
- 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
- house door
- house-door
- in church every time the doors are open
- in-doors
- Jack out of doors
- jib door
- Katy bar the door
- keep the wolf from the door
- kick at an open door
- kicking at an open door
- kitty bar the 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
- next door
- next-door
- nicky-nicky-nine-doors
- 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
- out-of-door
- out of doors
- out-of-doors
- patio door
- pet 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
- show somebody the door
- show someone the door
- shut the door
- shut the door on
- shut the front door
- slam-door, slam door
- slam the door
- slam the door on
- sporting door
- stage door
- 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
- trap-door
- trap door
- up and over door
- when one door closes, another opens
- with closed doors
- within-doors
- without-door
- wolf at the door
- your barn door is open
Descendants
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[edit]Verb
[edit]door (third-person singular simple present doors, present participle dooring, simple past and past participle doored)
- (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
- 2018 February 6, Helen Pidd, “I got ’doored’ while undertaking on my bike. Was it my fault?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-15:
- 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.
- 2019 December 15, Ben Spurr, “How an Ontario rule stops 'doored' cyclists from getting drivers' insurance info”, in Toronto Star[2], Toronto, Ont.: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 April 2024:
- 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.
- 2023 December 19, Angie Orellana Hernandez, “Being doored to death is a cyclist’s nightmare. How can it be prevented?”, in Los Angeles Times[3], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-04-22:
- 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.
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[edit]Dutch
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Dutch dōre, from Old Dutch thuro, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw.
Preposition
[edit]door
- through
- Hij schoot de bal door het raam.
- He kicked the ball through the window.
- across, around (within a certain space)
- Dolenthousiast rende het hondje door de kamer.
- Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.
- because of, due to
- Synonyms: vanwege, ten gevolge van
- Door files kan ik niet op tijd komen.
- Because of traffic jams I'm unable to arrive on time.
- by, by means of
- Hij vermeed een confrontatie door de andere kant op te lopen.
- He avoided a confrontation by walking the other way.
Declension
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Afrikaans: deur
- Berbice Creole Dutch: doro
- Jersey Dutch: dœr
- Negerhollands: door
- Petjo: door
- Skepi Creole Dutch: door
- Sranan Tongo: doro
- → Caribbean Javanese: dhur, dhur-dhuran
- → Papiamentu: dor
Adverb
[edit]door
- through
- forward, on
- Ondanks slecht weer ging het feest toch door.
- Despite bad weather, the party went on anyway.
- (postpositional, directional) through (implying motion)
- Ik rijd nu de stad door.
- I'm now driving through the city.
- (postpositional, spatial) across, around (within a certain space)
- Dolenthousiast rende het hondje de kamer door.
- Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.
- (postpositional, temporal) throughout, round (occurring all the time – constantly or frequently – within a certain time period)
- Zij kon geen maaltijd meer binnenhouden en moest de hele dag door kleine beetjes eten.
- She was unable to keep a meal in her stomach anymore and had to eat little snacks throughout the day.
- Het hele jaar door waren er problemen met hooligans.
- There were problems with hooligans all year round.
- De kinderen waren de hele vakantie door in het zwembad te vinden.
- The children could be seen at the swimming pool throughout the holidays.
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[edit]- Afrikaans: deur
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle Dutch dôre, from Old Dutch *dōro, Proto-West Germanic *dauʀō, from Proto-Germanic *dauzô.
Noun
[edit]door m (plural doren)
- (now Southern, archaic) fool, moron
- 1869, Frans de Cort, "Walter van de Vogelweide als paedagoog" (article including a poem), in Frans de Cort (ed.), De toekomst. Tijdschrift voor opvoeding en onderwijs, Vol. 3, No. 6, page 245.
- Past ook op uwe ooren / Beter dan de doren!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1869, Frans de Cort, "Walter van de Vogelweide als paedagoog" (article including a poem), in Frans de Cort (ed.), De toekomst. Tijdschrift voor opvoeding en onderwijs, Vol. 3, No. 6, page 245.
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[edit]Old Galician-Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin dolōrem m (“pain”).
Pronunciation
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[edit]door f (plural doores)
- pain
- 13th century, Afonso X the wise, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E Codex, Cantiga 206:
- ⁊ untou lle bẽ a chaga / ⁊ perdeu Log a door. / ⁊ poſſ el a ſua mão. / ben firme en ſeu logar
- And anointed well the wound / and soon the pain was gone. / And put his hand / very firmly in its place.
- 13th century, Afonso X the wise, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E Codex, Cantiga 206:
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[edit]Scots
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *dur.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]door (plural doors)
Further reading
[edit]- “door” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Somali
[edit]Verb
[edit]door
- to choose
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