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Door

Definition: Door

Door

Noun

1. A swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building; "he knocked on the door"; "he slammed the door as he left".

2. 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. Anything providing a means of access (or escape); "we closed the door to Haitian immigrants"; "education is the door to success".

4. A swinging or sliding barrier that will close off access into a car; "she forgot to lock the doors of her car".

5. A house that is entered via a door; "the house next door"; "they live just two doors up the street from us".

6. A room that is entered via a door; "his office is the third door down the hall on the left".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "door" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Door

DomainDefinition

Building & Civil Engineering

A building component consisting of an object in the form of a plate, the door leaf, normally equipped with a frame with which an opening for passage may be closed; normally the passage is shaped so as to accomodate persons in the upright position. Source: European Union. (references)

Dream Interpretation

To dream of entering a door, denotes slander, and enemies from whom you are trying in vain to escape. This is the same of any door, except the door of your childhood home. If it is this door you dream of entering, your days will be filled with plenty and congeniality.
To dream of entering a door at night through the rain, denotes, to women, unpardonable escapades; to a man, it is significant of a drawing on his resources by unwarranted vice, and also foretells assignations.
To see others go through a doorway, denotes unsuccessful attempts to get your affairs into a paying condition. It also means changes to farmers and the political world. To an author, it foretells that the reading public will reprove his way of stating facts by refusing to read his later works.
To dream that you attempt to close a door, and it falls from its hinges, injuring some one, denotes that malignant evil threatens your friend through your unintentionally wrong advice. If you see another attempt to lock a door, and it falls from its hinges, you will have knowledge of some friend's misfortune and be powerless to aid him. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Food & Agriculture

Shearing device, two of which hold open horizontally the wings and mouth of a trawl. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Door (Greek, thura; Anglo-Saxon, dora.)
The door must be either shut or open. It must be one way or the other. This is from a French comedy called Le Grondeur, where the master scolds his servant for leaving the door open. The servant says that he was scolded the last time for shutting it, and adds: "Do you wish it shut?" - "No." - "Do you wish it open?" - "No." - "Why," says the man, "it must be either shut or open."
He laid the charge at my door. He accused me of doing it.
Next door to it. As, if not so, it was next door to it, i.e. very like it, next-door neighbour to it.
Sin lieth at the door (Gen. iv. 7). The blame of sin lies at the door of the wrong-doer, and he must take the consequences. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Mechanical Engineering

A hinged closing plate in a vertical wall of the frame. Source: European Union. (references)

Metallurgy

An access or exit closure to the furnace chamber normally power-operated and often counterbalanced. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A hinged or sliding frame or piece of wood, metal, stone or other material, generally rectangular, used for closing or opening an entrance or exit. Doors are placed in air passages of mines to prevent the ventilating current from taking a short cut to the upcast shaft, and to direct the current to the working face. See also:air door;ventilation doors. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Door

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A door is a structure in a wall that allows easy conversion between an opening and a closed wall. It is found in many houses and other buildings, as well as in vehicles, cupboards, cages, etc..

The purpose of an opening is:

The purpose of a closure is: A door is usually fastened in a doorway, that is a frame constructed around the edges of a hole in a wall or other containing structure. The two vertical members of the frame are called jambs.

Types of door

Many kinds of doors have specific names, depending on their purpose. The most common variety of door consists of a single rigid panel that fills the doorway, hinged along one side so that it can fold away from the doorway in one direction but not in the other. Many variations on this basic design are possible, such as "double" doors that have two adjacent independent panels hinged on each side of the doorway.

A trapdoor is a door that is oriented horizontally in a floor or ceiling, often accessed via a ladder.

A stable door is divided in half horizontally. The top half can be opened to allow the horse to be fed, while the bottom half can be closed to keep the animal inside.

A swing door has special hinges that allow it to open either outwards or inwards, and is usually sprung to keep it closed. Saloon doors are a pair of lightweight swing doors often found in public bars.

An up-and-over door is often used in garages. Instead of hinges it has a mechanism, often counterbalanced or sprung, that allows it to be lifted so that it rests horizontally above the opening.

A barn door is a very large sliding door that covers the entire side of a barn.

A French door is a door that has multiple lights, the full length of the door. Traditional French doors are assembled from individiual small pieces of glass and mullions. French doors made of double-pane glass (on exterior doors for insulation reasons) may have the decorative grill embedded between the panes. The decorative grill may also be superimposed on top of single pane of glass in the door.

A sliding glass door is a glass door that slides to open. It goes in an opening at least twice the width of the sliding door and is composed of two panels of glass. One panel is fixed and the other slides. Sliding glass doors are most commonly used for large views of backyards

A garden door is any door that opens to a garden or backyard. It is often used specifically for double French doors in place of a sliding glass door. In such a configuration, it has the advantage of a very large opening for moving large objects in and out.

A pet door is a opening in a door to allow pets to enter and exit without the main door being opened. It may be simply covered by a rubber flap or it may be an actual door hinged on the top tha the pet can push through. Pet doors may be mounted in a sliding glass door as a new (permanent or temporary) panel. Pet doors may be unidirectional, only allowing pets to exit. Pet doors may be electronic, only allowing pets with a special electronic tag to enter.

Door construction

Traditional doors are constructed from vertical planks of wood held together by horizontal beams called ledges (hence ledged door). Often they are strengthened by diagonal beams, running upwards from the hinges, called braces (hence braced and ledged and braced doors).

Recently (c. 20th century) hollow doors have been used, consisting of a thin wooden frame covered by hardboard or plywood. Many houses now have external doors that are aluminium-framed with a polyvinyl chloride exterior. Steel doors are also very common for exterior doors.

Doors are constructed to be symmetric. Which way it opens is determined at installation when the hole for the door knob and lock and bolt are drilled on-site to match existing lock locations. For hollow doors, the area where the door knob goes is not hollow but solid and reinforced.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Door

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

DOOR

EnglishDual-chamber rate modulated asynchronousN/A

DOOR

ItalianAsincrono DOORMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Door

Synonyms: doorway (n), room access (n), threshold (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Door

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Beginning

Entrance, entry; inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch, portal, portico, propylon, door; gate, gateway; postern, wicket, threshold, vestibule; propylaeum; skirts, border; (edge).

Covering

Top, lid, covercle, door, operculum; bulkhead.

Edge

Threshold, door, porch; portal; (opening); coast, shore.

Egress

Outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate; pore; vomitory, outgate, sally port; way out; mouth, door; (opening); path; (way); conduit; airpipe.

Inclosure

Barrier, barricade; gate, gateway; bent, dingle; door, hatch, cordon; prison.

Ingress

Inlet; way in; mouth, door; (opening); barway; path; (way); conduit; immigrant.

Opening

Portal, porch, gate, ostiary, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door; arcade; cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway; lich gate.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Door

English words defined with "door": accordion doorbarn door, Batten door, bi-fold doorcar door, cargo doorDead door, double door, Dutch doorFeed door, fire door, folding door, Fore door, French door, front doorhalf doorinterior doorJib doornext door, Next door toopen door, Overhung doorscreen door, side door, sliding door, Storm door, Street door, swing door, swinging doorTo lie at one's door, To lie at the door of, trap doorVenetian doorwicket door. (references)
Specialty definitions using "door": air door, automatic doorBACK DOOR, bearing door, bomb doorDOOR ASSEMBLER, DOOR ASSEMBLER I, Door Bell, Door Buck, DOOR CORE ASSEMBLER, Door Nail, door stabilising bar, door stabilising strut, door stabilizing strut, door stablizing bar, door unlatch and landing gear unlock controlend doorgage doorINSTALLER, DOOR FURRINGlanding-gear door, LG door, Lock the Stable Door, louver door, louvered doormain gear door uplock assembly, main gear door uplock assy, Make the Door, manhole doornose gear door uplock assembly, nose gear door uplock assyoverhead doorpanelled doorregulator door, revolving doorsafety door, scale door, self-acting door, smoke door, Sport a Doortilt-up doorundercarriage doorventilation doorworker door. (references)
Etymologies containing "door": Windore. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Door" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (because of, by, by means of, during, for, for sake of, from, of, on, on account of, owing to, since, through, with), Flemish (through), Wolof (start).

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Modern Usage: Door

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Hello, Sorry about the door, Is the party over (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

It's that psycho next door. Jane, what if he worships you (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Door on your left (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

See that the back door and the front door are locked while I slip into my hunchback disguise (The Pink Panther Strikes Again; writing credit: Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman.)

There's a tiny door in that empty office (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

Lyrics

Just got home from Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy (LOOKIN' OUT MY BACK DOOR; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

If I would've knew the boy next door (Girl Next Door; performing artist: Musiq Soulchild)

The front door might slam (When Smokey Sings; performing artist: ABC)

Then my next door neighbor with a daughter had a favor ("Walk This Way"; performing artist: Aerosmith)

I'd take what I wanted and just walk away, but I never made it to the door. (Love in the First Degree; performing artist: Alabama; writing credit: Jim Hurt and Tim DuBois)

Clever

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her. (references; author: Mark Twain)

When God closes a door, He opens a window. (references; author: unknown)

I was the next door kid's imaginary friend. (references; author: unknown)

Don't ever slam a door. You may want to go back. (references; author: unknown)

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered, and no one was there. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

The Innocent Door (1973)

Open Door (1973)

Behind the Green Door (1972)

My Wife Next Door (1972)

Shut That Door! (1972)

Song Titles

Let's Lock The Door (performing artist: Jay and The Americans)

Girl Next Door (performing artist: Musiq Soulchild)

Let My Love Open The Door (performing artist: Pete Townshend)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Door

DomainTitle

References

  • NABCO DOOR Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • The World Market for Iron or Steel Doors, Windows, Door Thresholds, and Window Frames: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Penthouse: Girls on Girls Next Door - Caught on Tape (reference)

  • Wolves At Our Door (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Door

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Photo Album: Door

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Photo shows interior hallway of NCI new building in 1939. Dr. Leonard A. Scheele stands at end of hallway door. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Shows two individual shots of front of building 1 (Shannon Building). One shot is a close up of front showing pillars and some surrounding building. Another shot shows super close up of front door and pillars. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

STS-93 Payload Bay Door Closure. Credit: NASA.

Deploying the Conductivity/Temperature/Depth (CTD) and rosette water sampler through the baltic room door of the NATHANIEL B. PALMER. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Home sweet quanset hut - horizontally blowing snow streaks across the front door. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Turtle excluder device (TED) manufactured by Saunders Marine Machine Shop. The oval metal ring and bars deflect the turtles. The cut in the netting is where the trap door will be placed. The bars force a turtle to the trap door which will open allowing the turtle to go free. Credit: Fisheries.

F-22 Raptor tests Gatling gun door at high speed.

Door seal replacement.

Joel San Jaun stains a door at his self help home in PA. Credit: USDA.

West (door) elevation. Photograph by Gerda Peterich, September 1962. (Reproduction Number: HABS ME,3-PORTS,1-2) This unusual-looking lighthouse is built of curved cast-iron plates whose seams are cleverly disguised by six decorative Corinthian columns. Built in 1855 and rebuilt twenty years later, the lighthouse may have been the work of Thomas Ustick Walter, designer of the dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The lighthouse's flashing red beacon helped guide ships from Casco Bay through the entrance to Portland Harbor. Wooden sheds and a six-room house for the lighthouse-keeper were added at a later date but have since been removed. The lighthouse itself was abandoned in 1943. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Door
 

"Blue Door" by Pedro Cunha
Commentary: "One door in Lisbon..."
"Garage door" by Ramon Salgado De La Rosa
Commentary: "Iron garage door."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Door".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Footsteps walking down a cement hallway and the sound of the closing of a metal cell door which finally clangs shut.Creaky door swinging in the wind.
Creaky door swinging in the wind.Attic door slowing swinging closed.
Rapping on a squeaky door.Metal door being pulled shut across the cement floor.
Creaky door swinging in the wind.Impatient knock on a door.
Closing of a door with squeaky hinges.Squeaky door.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Door

AuthorQuotation

Author Unknown

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads "Push."
The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

Charles Dickens

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Emily Dickinson

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

Horace

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

John Heywood

When the steed is stolen, shut the stable door.

Milton Berle

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every wall is a door.

Thomas Fuller

He that bringeth a present findeth the door open.

Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Door

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

This being usually brought about by such in the commonwealth who misuse the power they have; it is hard to consider it aright, and know at whose door to lay it, without knowing the form of government in which it happens. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Door

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

The first error and the worst lay at her door.

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

I had just time to follow them, before he shut the door again

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

He turned it gently, and sidled his face in, round the door.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Near this latter spot, one afternoon, some children were at play, when they beheld a tall woman, in a grey robe, approach the cottage door.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

When she passed the factory at the hours in which the labourers were at the door, she forced herself to laugh and sing

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He halted on the landing before the door and then, grasping the porcelain knob, opened the door quickly

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

And she was silent, for Casy had drawn near the door.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

And I still appeal to my servants round, whether they at any time saw a coach at my door without knowing what persons were in it.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

It was not so much within doors as behind a door where I sat, even in the rainiest weather

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Door

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Keep the pet out of your bedroom and keep the bedroom door closed. (references)

Another solution could be widening a bathroom door to fit a wheelchair. (references)

These factors open the door for an array of unsubstantiated claims of cures. (references)

Business

This has opened the door for foreign expertise in wastewater technology and equipment. (references)

Eventually it may open the door for BOO-BOT industrial waste disposal facilities as well as their operation. (references)

The most significant price reductions experienced so far have been in flat glass, paints, and metal door and window frames. (references)

Civil Liberties

Guatemala

On February 20, an estimated 60 persons demonstrated in front of the offices of the newspaper and blocked the door to the offices. (references)

Ukraine

In July unknown assailants attempted to break down the door of Valentyna Vasylchenko, a reporter for the Cherkasy newspaper Antenna. (references)

Congo

Hours before the event, armed police barricaded the door to the church assembly hall where the press conference was scheduled to occur. (references)

Economic History

Cote D'ivoire

It also opened the door to the April 1998 Paris Club rescheduling. (references)

Ukraine

But Prices for these imports have begun to rise, opening the door for low cost suppliers. (references)

Philippines

Despite all its flaws, the Act opens a previously closed door, and presents opportunities for U.S. firms. (references)

Human Rights

Guyana

Witnesses said that an unarmed and groggy Stanton unlocked the door and had his hands raised above his head. (references)

Zimbabwe

Many of the farmhouses were uninhabitable after the roofs were destroyed and door and window frames were removed. (references)

South Africa

In September, three men shot and killed Nzomtu Tutuka, a UDM branch leader, at his front door in an informal settlement area. (references)

Minorities

Bangladesh

The bomb, which the army concluded was produced outside of the country, had been placed just inside a side door in a jute bag. (references)

Croatia

In February the Orthodox church in Darda, in the Danubian region, was vandalized for the fifth time in 18 months when windows and a door were damaged. (references)

Russia

On September 24, vandals carved the Russian equivalent of the word "kikes" on the front door of the office of the Congress of Jewish Religious Organizations and Communities of Russia. (references)

Political Economy

Kenya

On other occasions, however, the president has left the door open to staying in office, and some ruling party officials have urged the president to do so. Both the constitutional review process and the question of presidential succession remain subjects of intense political speculation, and the situation is likely to remain fluid through 2002. (references)

Trade

Brazil

If successfully implemented, the project could open the door to other such investments in Brazil that will boost economic growth and development. (references)

Travel

Chad

Sunday open pharmacy addresses are posted on every pharmacy door and in the newspapers. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. Megaceph, chosen to serve the State In the halls of legislative debate, One day with all his credentials came To the capitol's door and announced his name. The doorkeeper looked, with a comical twist Of the face, at the eminent egotist, And said: "Go away, for we settle here All manner of questions, knotty and queer, And we cannot have, when the speaker demands To be told how every member stands, A man who to all things under the sky Assents by eternally voting 'I'."

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Door

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

For me the pinnacle of selfishness is the driver who takes up two prime parking spaces in a crowded parking lot just so they won't get a little door ding.

Laura Schlessinger

When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

Lynn Chapman

The Army sent a chaplain and a casualty officer to the house. I answered the door and they were there.

Michael J. Fox

Well, I partied a lot when I was younger. And that was just, again, having to do with this kind of this imposter syndrome any minute someone is going to bang on the door and tell me good-bye. So I thought, well, I'll just be drunk when they get here.

Nellie Connally

To tell me what was going on. And, otherwise, I was there just starkly alone. Well, there was a knock on the door. And I said, come in. And Lady Bird came in.

Trisha Meili

I didn't go out through the front door of the courthouse. I went through an elevator down into a garage and got into a van and left that way.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Door

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809Nor should we now or at any time separate until we say we have done everything for the militia which we could do were an enemy at our door.

William H. Taft

1909-1913In the international controversies that are likely to arise in the Orient growing out of the question of the open door and other issues the United States can maintain her interests intact and can secure respect for her just demands.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963But I believe that, for the first time, the door is open for the nuclear defense of the alliance to become a source of confidence, instead of a cause of contention.

George Bush

1989-1993Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy through the door to freedom.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Door

"Door" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.98% of the time. "Door" is used about 25,338 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.98%25,333329
Noun (proper)0.02%5157,705
                    Total100.00%25,338N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Door

The following table summarizes the usage of "door" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
DoorLast name20035,939
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Door

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "door".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
ZuzimsN/ABiblical

The posts of a door

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Usage in Company Names: Door

CountryName
Japan

NABCO DOOR Ltd.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Door

Expressions using "door": access door accordion door aft cargo door aft passenger compartment door air door answer the door at deaths door at death's door at the door automatic door back door bang at the door bang the door bang the door on bar the door barn door Batten door batter at the door batter in a door batter the door in be at death's door beat at the door beat on the door behind closed door behind the door blank door blind door bomb door car door cargo door Clack door click the door close the door close the door on closed door closed door conference closed door meeting closed door session Dead door Death's door don't darken my door door bundle door chain Door County door curtain door frame door guard door handle door hinge door jamb door keeper door knob door knocker door latch door lock door mat door nail door or window door post door prize door stabilising bar door stabilising strut door stabilizing strut door stablizing bar door step door stone door to door door unlatch and landing gear unlock control double door drag oneself to the door Dutch door elevator door emergency door end door exterior door False door Feed door fire door folding door Fore door forward passenger door french door from door to door front door GCS door glass door go from door to door half door heck door i caught my fingers in the door i hear a ring at the door I)french door I)up and over door inner door interior door it lies at his own door jib door keep the wolf from the door knock at an open door knock at the door knock the door. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "door": door-arch, door-based, door-beetle, door-bell, door-bolt, door-case, door-cases, door-chain, door-chime, door-curtain, door-flaps, door-frame, door-frames, door-handle, door-hanging, door-hangings, door-holt, door-jamb, Door-keeper, door-key, door-key child, door-knob, door-knobbed, door-knobs, door-knocker, door-knockers, door-knocking, door-lock, door-locks, door-making, door-man, door-mat, door-money, door-narb, door-open, door-opened, door-opener, door-openers, door-opening, door-panel, door-panels, door-plate, door-pocket, door-policy, door-post, door-posts, door-prize, door-release, door-scraper, door-sculpture, door-seals, door-shutting, door-sill, door-slamming, door-space, door-step, door-stepping, door-still, door-stop, door-switch, door-to-door, door-to-door canvasser, door-to-door sales, door-to-door salesman, door-top, door-viewer, door-way, door-yard.

Ending with "door": back-door, boy-next-door, five-door, foot-in-the-door, four-door, front-door, girl-next-door, half-door, hall-door, inn-door, next-door, open-door, out-door, passenger-door, pier-and-door, side-door, slam-door, sliding-door, three-door, trap-door, two-door.

Containing "door": Ekino-door-oos, next-door-neighbour.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Door

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

door

4,570

door county wisconsin

760

garage door

3,692

genie garage door opener

750

3 door down

3,506

dog door

670

the door

2,565

window and door

642

garage door opener

2,180

door lock

621

shower door

1,848

stained glass door

612

girl next door

1,805

knob for door

599

door county

1,651

3 door down lyrics

582

back door

1,353

front door

571

screen door

1,345

wood door

570

three door down

1,316

the kid next door

545

french door

1,288

overhead door

537

entry door

1,142

cabinet door

535

back door pool yahoo

1,066

door mat

519

exterior door

1,050

yahoo back door

492

patio door

929

door closet

469

door hardware

888

pocket door

439

pet door

841

back door pogo

432

storm door

808

door lyrics

418

interior door

785

sliding door

418
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Door

Language Translations for "door"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

deur (by, by means of, from, gate, of, on, since, through, with). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

derë (entry, house). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مدخل (access, doorway, entrance, entry, entryway, gate, gateway, hallway, inlet, introduction, opening, preface, start, vestibule, way in), ‏أبواب, ‏باب المبني, ‏باب السيارة (front door), ‏باب (affair, chapter, entry, field, gate, hatch, issue, kind, matter, port, rubric, section, sort, source, subject). (various references)

   

Asturian

  

puerte (gate). (various references)

   

Aymara

  

puncu. (various references)

   

Basque

  

ate. (various references)

   

Bemba

  

ishibi. (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

kitsímm. (various references)

   

Breton

  

nor. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

врата (gate, gateway, goal, home, hoop), вход (adit, admission, admission fee, admittance, doorway, entrance, entry, gate money, gateway, ingress, input, passage, way in), път (approach, drive, driveway, fetch, gateway, itinerary, journey, key, lode, pad, part, parting, passage, path, pathway, race, ride, riding, road, roadway, route, time, track, trail, tube, way). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

porta (gate, gateway, portal). (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

pultahan. (various references)

   

Chamorro

  

potta. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(field of endeavor, gate), (DOORS, Gate, Gates, out-of-door, out-of-doors, Phyla, Phylum, Portal), (a household, family), 大門 (entrance, gate). (various references)

   

Cornish

  

darras. (various references)

   

Czech

  

dveře. (various references)

   

Danish

  

dør (gate). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

deur (access door, doorset, flood gate, gate, hydraulic gate), portier (porter). (various references)

   

Ecuadorian Quechua

  

puncu (gate). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

pordo (gate). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

hurð. (various references)

   

Farsi