door
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
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 and Norwegian dør (“door”), Icelandic dyr (“door”), Latin foris and foras, Ancient Greek θύρα (thúra), Albanian derë pl. dyer, Central Kurdish دەرگە (derge), derî, Persian در (dar), Russian дверь (dverʹ), Hindi द्वार (dvār), Armenian դուռ (duṙ), Irish doras, Sanskrit द्वार (dvāra), Lithuanian durys.
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PronunciationEdit
- (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, AAVE) IPA(key): /doʊ/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)
- Homophone: daw (non-rhotic with caught-court merger (most of England, Australia, New York))
- Homophone: dour (cure-force merger; one pronunciation)
- Homophone: dough (non-rhotic with dough-door merger (AAVE, non-rhotic Southern US))
NounEdit
door (plural doors)
- A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically 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.
- 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[1]:
- ‘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.’
- I knocked on the vice president's door
- 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"
HyponymsEdit
MeronymsEdit
Parts of doors (six panel)
Derived termsEdit
- a creaking door hangs long on its hinges
- a creaking door hangs longest
- a golden key can open any door
- ashdump door
- at death's door
- at Death's door
- at the door
- back door
- back-door pilot
- baize door
- bang down the door
- bang on the door
- bang the door down
- barn door
- boy next door
- boy-next-door
- butterfly door
- car door
- car door handle
- carriage door
- cat door
- cellar door
- cellar-door
- check at the door
- church door
- church-door
- clack door
- close one's doors
- close the door on
- close the stable door after the horse has bolted
- closed door
- 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 bitch
- door brake
- door chain
- door closer
- Door County
- door drawer
- door frame
- door game
- door god
- door handle
- door hinge
- door knob
- door knocker
- door nail
- door opener
- door phone
- door prize
- door prize
- door pump
- door seal
- door snail
- door to door
- door wench
- door-bell
- door-frame
- door-in-the-face technique
- door-keeper
- door-mat
- door-nail
- door-prize
- door-to-door
- doorgame
- doorman
- doorsill
- doorstep
- doorstop
- doorway
- Dutch door
- early door
- fairy door
- fire door
- foot-in-the-door technique
- four door house
- four-door
- French door
- funeral door
- garage door
- garage door opener
- gentleman of the back door
- get one's foot in the door
- girl next door
- girl-next-door
- glass door
- glass-door
- go in the out door
- green door
- house door
- house-door
- jib door
- Katy bar the door
- keep the wolf from the door
- kicking at an open door
- kitty bar the door
- knock at the door
- knock at the door of
- knock on heaven's door
- knock on the door of
- knocking on heaven's door
- Lamborghini door
- lay at someone's door
- leave at the door
- let the door hit you where the good Lord split you
- lie at one's door
- make a better door than a window
- next door
- next-door
- on the door
- one's door is open
- open door
- open door policy
- open the door
- open-door
- open-door policy
- opportunity knocks at every man's door
- out-of-door
- patio door
- pet door
- platform screen door
- pocket door
- push against an open door
- revolving door
- revolving door syndrome
- revolving-door syndrome
- sash door
- scissor door
- screen door
- show somebody the door
- show someone the door
- shut the door on
- shut the front door
- slam the door on
- slam-door, slam door
- stage door
- stage-door Johnny
- storm door
- suicide door
- swing door
- swinging door
- swinging-door chad
- text door neighbour
- trap door
- up and over door
- when one door closes, another opens
- without-door
DescendantsEdit
- Sranan Tongo: doro
TranslationsEdit
portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle
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any flap that opens like a door
computing: software mechanism for interacting with a remotely running program
See alsoEdit
VerbEdit
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 The Guardian[2]:
- 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.
TranslationsEdit
to cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian
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AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle Dutch dōre, from Old Dutch thuro, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw.
PrepositionEdit
door
- through
- Hij schoot de bal door het raam.
- He kicked the ball through the window.
- Hij schoot de bal door het raam.
- across, around (within a certain space)
- Dolenthousiast rende het hondje door de kamer.
- Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.
- Dolenthousiast rende het hondje door de kamer.
- because of, due to
- Door files kan ik niet op tijd komen.
- Because of traffic jams I'm unable to arrive on time.
- Door files kan ik niet op tijd komen.
- by, by means of
- Hij vermeed een confrontatie door de andere kant op te lopen.
- He avoided a confrontation by walking the other way.
- Hij vermeed een confrontatie door de andere kant op te lopen.
InflectionEdit
Pronominal adverbs of door
SynonymsEdit
(because of):
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- 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
AdverbEdit
door
- through
- forward, on
- Ondanks slecht weer ging het feest toch door.
- Despite bad weather, the party went on anyway.
- Ondanks slecht weer ging het feest toch door.
- (postpositional, directional) through (implying motion)
- Ik rijd nu de stad door.
- I'm now driving through the city.
- Ik rijd nu de stad door.
- (postpositional, spatial) across, around (within a certain space)
- Dolenthousiast rende het hondje de kamer door.
- Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.
- Dolenthousiast rende het hondje de kamer door.
- (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.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Afrikaans: deur
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle Dutch dôre. Cognate to German Tor. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
NounEdit
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!
- 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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AnagramsEdit
Old PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Latin dolōrem m (“pain”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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.
- ⁊ untou lle bẽ a chaga / ⁊ perdeu Log a door. / ⁊ poſſ el a ſua mão. / ben firme en ſeu logar
- 13th century, Afonso X the wise, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E Codex, Cantiga 206:
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DescendantsEdit
ScotsEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *dur.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
door (plural doors)
Further readingEdit
- “door” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
SomaliEdit
VerbEdit
door
- to choose