What does doorstop mean?
Definitions for doorstop
ˈdɔrˌstɒp, ˈdoʊr-doorstop
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word doorstop.
Princeton's WordNet
doorstop, doorstoppernoun
a stop that keeps open doors from moving
Wiktionary
doorstopnoun
Any device or object used to halt the motion of a door, as a large or heavy object, a wedge, or some piece of hardware fixed to the floor, door or wall.
doorstopnoun
A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.
doorstopnoun
(in error for doorstep) A thick sandwich.
doorstopnoun
An interview with a politician or other public figure (apparently informal or spontaneous but often planned), as they enter or leave a building.
ChatGPT
doorstop
A doorstop is a device or object used to prevent a door from opening or closing completely, often preserving the openness of the door at a particular angle. It can also protect walls and furniture from being damaged by the door swing. Doorstops can be standalone objects that are placed on the floor behind or in front of the door, or they can be attached to the door or the wall.
Webster Dictionary
Doorstopnoun
the block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door
Wikidata
Doorstop
A doorstop is an object or device used to hold a door open or closed, or to prevent a door from opening too widely. Alternatively, a doorstop can be a thin slat built inside a door frame to prevent a door from swinging through when closed. A door stop may also be a small bracket or 90 degree piece of metal applied to the frame of a door to stop the door from swinging and converting that door to a single direction.
The New Hacker's Dictionary
doorstop
Used to describe equipment that is non-functional and halfway expected to remain so, especially obsolete equipment kept around for political reasons or ostensibly as a backup. Compare boat anchor.
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doorpost
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of doorstop in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of doorstop in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of doorstop in a Sentence
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
In addition to being the first Black district attorney, I think I'll probably be the first district attorney who's had police point a gun at him. I think I'll be the first district attorney who's had a homicide victim on his doorstop. I think I'll be the first district attorney in Manhattan whose had a semi-automatic weapon pointed at him. I think I'll be the first district attorney in Manhattan whose had a loved one reenter from incarceration and stay with him, and I'm going to govern from that perspective.
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.
Watching your child suffering when you're helpless is one of the worst things you can experience in life, i know that death is on the doorstop. I'm not going to let him in, and he's going to be waiting there for a very long time. The difference between us and any other family is that they don't see him at the doorstep. I see him, and in true Southern fashion, I will give him a glass of iced tea while he waits. Because we're still going to dance and have fun in the presence of all that. It's not going to be doom and gloom in our house.
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