DOOR

door

(noun) a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle; “he knocked on the door”; “he slammed the door as he left”

door

(noun) a room that is entered via a door; “his office is the third door down the hall on the left”

door

(noun) a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road); “the office next door”; “they live two doors up the street from us”

doorway, door, room access, threshold

(noun) the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close; “he stuck his head in the doorway”

door

(noun) anything providing a means of access (or escape); “we closed the door to Haitian immigrants”; “education is the door to success”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

door (plural doors)

A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed, and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.

Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.

(immigration) An entry point.

(figurative) A means of approach or access.

(figurative) A barrier.

(computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.

Meronyms

• handle

• latch

• lock

Hyponyms

• front door

• sliding door

Meronyms

(Parts of doors (six panel)):

• top rail

• panel

• 1st mullion

• cross rail

• lock style

• second mulion

• lock rail

• frame

• lock set

• third mullion

• sticking

• bottom rail

• witness panel

• witness line

• lite

• glazing

• casing

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• Rood, odor, ordo, rood

Source: Wiktionary

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Door, n. Etym: [OE. dore, dure, AS. duru; akin to OS. dura, dor, D. deur, OHG. turi, door, tor gate, G. thür, thor, Icel. dyrr, Dan. dör, Sw. dörr, Goth. daur, Lith. durys, Russ. dvere, Olr. dorus, L. fores, Gr. dur, dvara. . Cf. Foreign.]

1. An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way. To the same end, men several paths may tread, As many doors into one temple lead. Denham.

2. The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened. At last he came unto an iron door That fast was locked. Spenser.

3. Passage; means of approach or access. I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. John x. 9.

4. An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads. Martin's office is now the second door in the street. Arbuthnot. Blank door, Blind door, etc. (Arch.) See under Blank, Blind, etc.

– In doors, or Within doors, within the house.

– Next door to, near to; bordering on. A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult. L'Estrange.

– Out of doors, or Without doors, and, colloquially, Out doors, out of the house; in open air; abroad; away; lost. His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors. Locke.

– To lay (a fault, misfortune, etc.) at one's door, to charge one with a fault; to blame for.

– To lie at one's door, to be imputable or chargeable to. If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door. Dryden.

Note: Door is used in an adjectival construction or as the first part of a compound (with or without the hyphen), as, door frame, doorbell or door bell, door knob or doorknob, door latch or doorlatch, door jamb, door handle, door mat, door panel.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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