What does DOOR mean?

Definitions for DOOR
dɔr, doʊrdoor

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. doornoun

    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"

  2. doorway, door, room access, thresholdnoun

    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"

  3. doornoun

    anything providing a means of access (or escape)

    "we closed the door to Haitian immigrants"; "education is the door to success"

  4. doornoun

    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"

  5. doornoun

    a room that is entered via a door

    "his office is the third door down the hall on the left"

Wiktionary

  1. doornoun

    A portal of entry into a building or room, 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.

    I knocked on the vice president's door

  2. doornoun

    An non-physical entry into the next world, a particular feeling, a company, etc.

    Keep a door on your anger.

  3. doornoun

    A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system.

  4. doorverb

    To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in the front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

  5. Etymology: From dore, dor, from duru, dor, from duran, from dʰwer-. Cognates include Danish dør, Dutch deur, German Tür, Tor, Icelandic dyr, Latin foris, Modern Greek, Albanian derë pl. dyer, Kurdish derge, Persian, Russian, Hindustani /, Armenian, Irish doras.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. DOORnoun

    Etymology: dor, dure, Saxon; dorris, Erse.

    All the castle quaked from the ground,
    And every door of free-will open flew. Fairy Queen, b. i.

    In the side a door
    Contriv’d; and of provisions laid in large,
    For man and beast. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. xi.

    To the same end men sev’ral paths may tread,
    As many doors into one temple lead. John Denham.

    For without rules there can be no art, any more than there can be a house without a door to conduct you in. John Dryden, Dufres.

    Lay one piece of flesh or fish in the open air, and another of the same kind and bigness within doors. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

    Let him doubt whether his cloaths be warm, and so go naked; whether his house be firm, and live without doors. Decay of Piety.

    Martin’s office is now the second door in the street, where he will see Parnel. Arbuth.

    Lambs, though they are bred within doors, and never saw the actions of their own species, push at those who approach them with their foreheads. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 121.

    The sultan entered again the peasant’s house, and turned the owner out of doors. Joseph Addison, Guardian, №. 99.

    The tender blades of grass appear,
    And buds, that yet the blast of Eurus fear,
    Stand at the door of life, and doubt to clothe the year. Dry.

    The indispensable necessity of sincere obedience, shuts the door against all temptations to carnal security. Henry Hammond.

    Should he, who was thy lord, command thee now,
    With a harsh voice and supercilious brow,
    To servile duties, thou would’st fear no more;
    The gallows and the whip are out of door. John Dryden, Pers.

    His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors, and Cain is no prince over his brother. John Locke.

    In any of which parts, if I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door. John Dryden, Dufresnoy, Preface.

    A seditious word leads to a broil, and a riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult. Roger L'Estrange.

Wikipedia

  1. Door

    A door is a hinged or otherwise movable barrier that allows ingress (entry) into and egress (exit) from an enclosure. The created opening in the wall is a doorway or portal. A door's essential and primary purpose is to provide security by controlling access to the doorway (portal). Conventionally, it is a panel that fits into the doorway of a building, room, or vehicle. Doors are generally made of a material suited to the door's task. They are commonly attached by hinges, but can move by other means, such as slides or counterbalancing. The door may be able to move in various ways (at angles away from the doorway/portal, by sliding on a plane parallel to the frame, by folding in angles on a parallel plane, or by spinning along an axis at the center of the frame) to allow or prevent ingress or egress. In most cases, a door's interior matches its exterior side. But in other cases (e.g., a vehicle door) the two sides are radically different. Many doors incorporate locking mechanisms to ensure that only some people can open them (such as with a key). Doors may have devices such as knockers or doorbells by which people outside announce their presence. (In some countries, such as Brazil, it is customary to clap from the sidewalk to announce one's presence.) Apart from providing access into and out of a space, doors may have the secondary functions of ensuring privacy by preventing unwanted attention from outsiders, of separating areas with different functions, of allowing light to pass into and out of a space, of controlling ventilation or air drafts so that interiors may be more effectively heated or cooled, of dampening noise, and of blocking the spread of fire. Doors can have aesthetic, symbolic, ritualistic purposes. Receiving the key to a door can signify a change in status from outsider to insider. Doors and doorways frequently appear in literature and the arts with metaphorical or allegorical import as a portent of change.

ChatGPT

  1. door

    A door is a movable barrier that serves as an entrance or exit to a building, room, or other enclosed space. It typically consists of a panel or panels that can swing, slide, or rotate on hinges or tracks, allowing passage and providing security and privacy when closed. Doors are often made of wood, metal, glass, or a combination of materials, and they can be opened and closed manually or automatically using mechanisms like handles, knobs, locks, or electronic controls.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Doornoun

    an opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way

  2. Doornoun

    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

  3. Doornoun

    passage; means of approach or access

  4. Doornoun

    an entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads

  5. Etymology: [OE. dore, dure, AS. duru; akin to OS. dura, dor, D. deur, OHG. turi, door, tor gate, G. thr, thor, Icel. dyrr, Dan. dr, Sw. drr, Goth. daur, Lith. durys, Russ. dvere, Olr. dorus, L. fores, Gr. ; cf. Skr. dur, dvra. 246. Cf. Foreign.]

Wikidata

  1. Door

    A door is an opening/closing structure used to block off an entrance, typically consisting of an interior side that faces the inside of a space and an exterior side that faces the outside of that space. While in some cases the interior side of a door may match its exterior side, in other cases there are sharp contrasts between the two sides, such as in the case of the vehicle door. In addition, doors typically consist of a panel that swings on hinges or that slides or spins inside of a space. When open, doors admit people, animals, ventilation, and light. The door is used to control the physical atmosphere within a space by enclosing the air drafts, so that interiors may be more effectively heated or cooled. Doors are significant in preventing the spread of fire. They act as a barrier to noise. Many doors are equipped with locking mechanisms to allow entrance to certain people and keep out others. Doors are used to screen areas of a building for aesthetics, keeping formal and utility areas separate. Doors also have an aesthetic role in creating an impression of what lies beyond. Doors are often symbolically endowed with ritual purposes, and the guarding or receiving of the keys to a door, or being granted access to a door can have special significance. Similarly, doors and doorways frequently appear in metaphorical or allegorical situations, literature and the arts, often as a portent of change.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Door

    dōr, n. the usual entrance into a house, room, or passage: the wooden frame on hinges closing up the entrance: a means of approach or access.—ns. Door′-bell; Door′-case, the frame which encloses a door; Door′-cheek (Scot.), one of the side-posts of a door; Door′-keep′er; Door′-knock′er; Door′-mat; Door′-nail; Door′-plate, a plate on or at a door with the householder's name on it; Door′-post, the jamb or side-piece of a door; Door′-sill, the threshold of a doorway; Door′-stead, a doorway; Door′-step, Door′-stone, the step-stone; Door′way, the entrance or passage closed by the door; Door′-yard, a yard about the door of a house; Fold′ing-door, a door in two halves, each of which may be folded back against the wall.—Darken one's door, to cross one's threshold; Death's door, on the point of death, in great danger of death; Next door to, in the house next to: near to, bordering upon, very nearly; Out of doors, in the open air; Show to the door, to dismiss with ignominy. [A.S. duru; Ger. thor, thür; Gr. thyra, L. fores (pl.), a door.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. DOOR

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Door is ranked #52970 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Door surname appeared 391 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Door.

    81% or 317 total occurrences were White.
    6.6% or 26 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    5.6% or 22 total occurrences were Black.
    3.3% or 13 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'DOOR' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #360

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'DOOR' in Written Corpus Frequency: #368

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'DOOR' in Nouns Frequency: #82

Anagrams for DOOR »

  1. oord

  2. odor

  3. rood

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of DOOR in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of DOOR in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of DOOR in a Sentence

  1. Masih Alinejad:

    I was told by the FBI to' stay away from your home,' i was shocked. I couldn't even believe it. I was telling Masih Alinejad,' if I opened the door, what was I going to do ?'.

  2. French Paris Match:

    One can hear cries of 'My God' in several languages, metallic banging can also be heard more than three times, perhaps of the pilot trying to open the cockpit door with a heavy object. Towards the end, after a heavy shake, stronger than the others, the screaming intensifies. Then nothing.

  3. Brian Kilmeade:

    It’s physically exhausting. Emotionally and spiritually exhausting. And dangerous as all get out. You don’t have to be skilled to shoot at someone going through a door.

  4. Steve Scalise:

    President Biden and Democrats have politicized Covid from the start and refused to acknowledge its origins from China, republicans have been sounding the alarm on these issues for well over year, and Dr. Birx’s closed-door testimony confirms that the world was misled.

  5. Eni Chief Executive Claudio Descalzi:

    It's an open door to give value and solidity to Eni's balance sheet, but it will not be a necessary outcome. There is much less to spend than in Mozambique and the new gas is aimed at the local domestic market with prices disconnected from those of oil, which today are at six-year lows.

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