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Definition: Door |
DoorNoun1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
(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:
- for people, animals and objects to pass; some doors are for emergencies only (emergency exit)
- for air to pass (ventilation)
- for seeing and hearing what happens on the other side (however, some doors are partly or fully made of glass)
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.
- for preventing air to pass: reducing air drafts and creating an enclosed space that can be heated or cooled more effectively. The use of doors is essential in colder climes where heating would be very difficult without them, and similarly in climates where air conditioning is used.
- for not seeing or hearing what happens on the other side: privacy, avoiding noise
- for preventing falling out (in vehicles)
- regulation of access. Combined with various types of locks, doors become important safety measures.
- for esthetics (e.g. cupboard doors preventing the sight of the contents).
- for helping prevent fire to spread.
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.
- The Doors were a four person musical band of the 1960s and early 1970s.
- Doors is a movie about the band The Doors.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DOOR | English | Dual-chamber rate modulated asynchronous | N/A |
DOOR | Italian | Asincrono DOOR | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: DoorSynonyms: doorway (n), room access (n), threshold (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | 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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| "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. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | 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. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
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. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
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) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(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. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Nor 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 | 1909-1913 | In 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 | 1961-1963 | But 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 | 1989-1993 | Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy through the door to freedom. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.98% | 25,333 | 329 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25,338 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Door | Last name | 200 | 35,939 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "door". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Zuzims | N/A | Biblical | The posts of a door |
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| Country | Name |
| Japan | NABCO DOOR Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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 | 門 (field of endeavor, gate), 门 (DOORS, Gate, Gates, out-of-door, out-of-doors, Phyla, Phylum, Portal), 戶 (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 | راهرو (Aisle, Corridor, Doorway, Gallery, Gangway, Passage, Passageway, Pylon, Runway, Vestibule), درب (Port), در (About, At, For, Pearl, Plug, Pylon, To, Valve, Wicket). (various references) | |
Finnish | ovi (access door, doorset), luukku (hatch, shutter). (various references) | |
French | porte (doorway). (various references) | |
French Canadian | porte. (various references) | |
Frisian | doar. (various references) | |
Galician | porta. (various references) | |
German | tür (gate), tor (archway, fool, gate, gateway, goal, hoop, port, portal), pforte (gap, gate, port). (various references) | |
Greek | πόρτα (gate), θύρα (gate). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | derë. (various references) | |
Hebrew | דלת (entrance, gate, portal). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ajtó (front door), kapu (front door, front-door, gate, gateway, home, port, portal, street door). (various references) | |
Icelandic | dyr, hurð. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pintu. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | paa. (various references) | |
Irish | doras. (various references) | |
Italian | porta (gate, gateway, goal, port), uscio. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 扉 (opening). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ドア , ひらきど, かどぐち (entrance, gateway), もんこ, とぐち, とびら (opening), と (10, 18 litres, gang, metropolitan, municipal, party, person, set, ten, way). (various references) | |
Kongo | mwelo. (various references) | |
Korean | 문 (DOORS, Gate, Gates). (various references) | |
Lombard | porta. (various references) | |
Macedonian | vrata. (various references) | |
Manx | dorrys (back of cart, doorway, fly of tent, portal). (various references) | |
Maori | tatau. (various references) | |
Maya | hoonah. (various references) | |
Mohawk | kanhoha. (various references) | |
Norwegian | dør. (various references) | |
Occitan | pòrta. (various references) | |
Papago | pualit. (various references) | |
Papiamen | porta (gate, gateway, portal). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oorday.(various references) | |
Polish | drzwi. (various references) | |
Portuguese | porta (exit, gate, port, way out). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | porta. (various references) | |
Provencal | pòrta. (various references) | |
Romanian | uşiţã (wicket), uşå, uşã (doorway, entrance, exit, fold, gate), portiţã (gate, loophole, wicket), poartã (barrier, entrance, gate, gateway, goal, port), oficiu (agency, assistance, bureau, function, help, office, pantry), acces (access, accession, adit, admission, admittance, approach, convulsion, gust, outbreak, outburst, reach, relapse, seizure, spasm). (various references) | |
Romansch | isch. (various references) | |
Romany | dar. (various references) | |
Ruanda | umwango. (various references) | |
Russian | дверь. (various references) | |
Samoan | faitotoa. (various references) | |
Scottish | dorus (a door). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrata (portal). (various references) | |
Shona | gonhi. (various references) | |
Sicilian | porta. (various references) | |
Spanish | puerta (dismissal, doorway, gate, gateway, portal). (various references) | |
Sranan | doro (arrive, end up, get, sift). (various references) | |
Swahili | mlango (gate, gateway, portal). (various references) | |
Swazi | um-nyango. (various references) | |
Swedish | dörr (doorway, entry), port (doorway, gate, gateway, portal, street door), lucka (blank, counter, gap, hatch, hatchway, hiatus, hole, Lacuna, opening, scuttle, shutter, slot, wicket, window). (various references) | |
Tagalog | pintúan. (various references) | |
Thai | ประตู (goal). (various references) | |
Turkish | kapý, kapı (entrance, entry, gate, gateway, hatchway, opening, portal), giriş (access, adit, admission, admittance, ante, checkin, doorway, entrée, entrance, entry, exordium, induction, inflow, influx, ingress, inlet, input, intake, introduction, lead in, pass, port, preamble, prelude, proem, vestibule), eşik (brink, door stone, doorstep, limen, sill, threshold, verge). (various references) | |
Turkmen | iюik, gapy. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | двері, дверний отвір (doorway), домівка (house, nest). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xử kín trong nhà, không thèm tiếp ai đuổi ai ra khỏi cửa họp kín, không ở nhà, hấp hối, con đường cách vài nhà, cửa (frame), cách vài buồng bên ngưỡng cửa của thần chết, ở nhà bên cạnh, ở nhà. (various references) | |
Welsh | drws. (various references) | |
Zulu | umnyango. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ig. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ianua. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | dvara. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | duru. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 9, Verse 14 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ekaqisen epi quraiV tou eauthV oikou epi difrou emfanwV en plateiaiV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sedit in foribus domus suae super sellam in excelso urbis loco |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Sat in the yate doris of hir hous, vpon a sete, in the heye place of the cite; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 9, Verse 14 |
| Cebuano | Ug siya magalingkod sa pultahan sa iyang balay, Ibabaw sa usa ka lingkoranan diha sa usa ka hataas nga dapit sa ciudad, |
| Chinese | 他 坐 在 自 己 的 家 門 口 、 坐 在 城 中 高 處 的 座 位 上 、 |
| Croatian | I sjedi na vratima svoje kuæe na stolici, u gradskim visinama, |
| Danish | hun sidder ved sit Huses indgang, troner på Byens Høje |
| Dutch | En zij zit aan de deur van haar huis, op een stoel, op de hoge plaatsen der stad; |
| Finnish | Hän istuu talonsa ovella, istuimella kaupungin kummuilla, |
| French | Elle s`assied à l`entrée de sa maison, Sur un siège, dans les hauteurs de la ville, |
| German | die sitzt in der Tür ihres Hauses auf dem Stuhl, oben in der Stadt, |
| Hungarian | És leült az õ házának ajtajába, székre a városnak magas helyein, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tempatnya ialah di pintu rumahnya atau di pintu gerbang kota. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka iapun duduk pada pintu rumahnya dan kedudukannya adalah di tempat yang tinggi dalam negeri, |
| Italian | Sta seduta alla porta di casa, su un trono, in un luogo alto della città, |
| Maori | Noho ana ia i te kuwaha o tona whare i runga i te nohoanga i nga wahi tiketike o te pa; |
| Norwegian | Hun sitter foran døren til sitt hus på en trone på en høide i byen |
| Portuguese | Senta-se à porta da sua casa ou numa cadeira, nas alturas da cidade, |
| Rumanian | Ea wade totuw la uwa casei sale, pe un scaun, pe knqlyimile cetqyii, |
| Russian | УБДЙФУС Х ДЧЕТЕК ДПНБ УЧПЕЗП ОБ УФХМЕ, ОБ ЧПЪЧЩЫЕООЩИ НЕУФБИ ЗПТПДБ, |
| Spanish | Ella se sienta en una silla a la puerta de su casa, en lo alto de la ciudad, |
| Swedish | Hon har satt sig vid ingången till sitt hus, på sin stol, högt uppe i staden, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "door": doorbell, doorbells, doorjamb, doorjambs, doorkeeper, doorkeepers, doorknob, doorknobs, doorless, doorman, doormat, doormats, doormen, doornail, doornails, doorplate, doorplates, doorpost, doorposts, doors, doorsill, doorsills, doorstep, doorsteps, doorstop, doorstops, doorway, doorways, dooryard, dooryards. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "door": backdoor, indoor, nextdoor, outdoor, pandoor, tandoor, trapdoor. (additional references) | |
Words containing "door": indoors, outdoors, outdoorsman, outdoorsmanship, outdoorsmanships, outdoorsmen, outdoorsy, pandoors, tandoori, tandooris, tandoors, trapdoors, withindoors, withoutdoors. (additional references) | |
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"Door" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adour, dador, daoh, daur, Davor, deor, deorc, deorn, dero, Dhoog, dhoon, diob, Diodora, diodoro, dior, Diur, djore, djour, Doboj, doerr, dofo, Dogoh, Dogru, doir, doko, Dood, dooe, dooer, doof, doog, dooh, dook, dool, dooo, dooor, doop, doore, Doorga, doorm, doorn, doory, doot, doov, dorc, dord, dorea, dorel, doreo, dorf, dori, dorj, doro, doroga, doron, dorp, dorq, Dorz, doud, douf, dourd, doure, douri, doury, doux, douz, doyo, dpo, Dromora, droo, droog, Dror, drour, drowr, duar, duir, duoc, duoi, dupor, dupr, durf, duro, Duror, Durox, durp, durr, Dvor, dwor, edor, idoor, Ndioro, Ndioroa, Odizor, odoc, odod, odol, odore, odori, odory, odot, odoy, oor, tdor, Toor, xor, zoor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "door" (pronounced dô"r) |
| 3 | d ô" r | adore, Dore, Dorr. |
| 2 | -ô" r | abhor, antiwar, anymore, ashore, before, boar, bore, chore, cor, core, corps, decor, deplore, drawer, explore, floor, for, fore, four, galore, Gore, guarantor, hardcore, heretofore, Hoar, ignore, implore, inshore, lore, Mor, more, nor, oar, offshore, or, ore, outpour, outscore, pore, postwar, pour, prewar, rapport, restore, roar, score, Senor, shore, snore, soar, sore, spore, store, swore, tor, tore, Torr, underscore, war, whore, wore, yore, your. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: odor, ordo, rood. | |
| Words within the letters "d-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: dor, rod. | |
-2 letters: do, od, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: brood, dobro, dolor, donor, doors, drool, droop, fordo, odors, odour, ordos, rodeo, rondo, roods. | |
+2 letters: broods, broody, condor, cordon, corody, dhoora, dobros, doctor, dolors, dolour, donors, doozer, dorado, dromon, drongo, drools, droops, droopy, foredo, hotrod, indoor, moored, odored, odours, oroide, overdo, oxford, roadeo, rodeos, rondos, roofed, rooked, roomed, roosed, rooted, sordor, toroid, uropod. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Quotations: Speeches 16. Usage Frequency | 17. Names: Frequency 18. Names: Derived from 19. Names: Company Usage 20. Expressions | 21. Expressions: Internet 22. Translations: Modern 23. Translations: Ancient 24. Bible Trace | 25. Abbreviations 26. Acronyms 27. Derivations 28. Rhymes | 29. Anagrams 30. Bibliography |
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