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Screen Door

Definition: Screen Door

Screen Door

Noun

1. A door that is a screen to keep insects from entering a building through the open door; "he heard the screen slam as she left".

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



Synonym: Screen Door

Synonym: screen (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Screen Door

English words defined with "screen door": screen. (references)
Specialty definitions using "screen door": CENTRIFUGAL-DRIER OPERATOR, centrifuge operator, CHARGER OPERATOR, COCOA-BUTTER-FILTER OPERATORSCREEN TACKER. (references)

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Modern Usage: Screen Door

DomainUsage

Screenplays

When you wake up at night, you can hear him. Once I heard him scratchin' on our screen door, but he was gone by the time Atticus got there. (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote)

That's about as funny as a screen door on a battleship. (Back to the Future Part II; writing credit: Ronnie Cramer)

Lyrics

I heard the screen door slam ("Big Yellow Taxi"; performing artist: Joni Mitchell)

Movie/TV Titles

Screen Door Jesus (2003)

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

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Commercial Usage: Screen Door

DomainTitle

Music

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Screen Door

Photos:
Screen Door

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Photo Album: Screen Door

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Plaque announcing the death of person. Display on screen door of grocery store in town near Syracuse, Kansas.Credit: Library of Congress.

Cutting metal reinforcement for screen door joints. Charles County, La Plata, Maryland. Screening demonstration.Credit: Library of Congress.

Fastening the stock with corrugated staples. Screen door construction. Charles County, La Plata, Maryland.Credit: Library of Congress.

Detail of bottom of completed screen door. Screening demonstration. Saint Mary's County, Ridge, Maryland.Credit: Library of Congress.

Removing the old worn-out door. Screen door construction demonstration. Charles County, La Plata, Maryland.Credit: Library of Congress.

Assembling screen door to door frame. Screening demonstration. Saint Mary's County, Ridge, Maryland.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Use in Literature: Screen Door

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Two gasoline pumps in front, a screen door, a long bar, stools, and a foot rail.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Screen 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

screen door

1,345

retractable screen door

266

phantom screen door

109

wooden screen door

94

patio screen door

92

screen door hardware

49

victorian screen door

29

screen door roller

14

screen door latch

12

screen door handle

11

screen door hinge

8

shoji screen door

6

old fashioned screen door

6

screen door knob

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Screen Door

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

Chinese 

  

屏門 . (various references)

   

Danish

  

lamelgardin. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

rolluik. (various references)

   

French

  

porte rideaux. (various references)

   

German

  

Falltür (trap, trap door, trapdoor). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sportello scorrevole. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

網戸 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

あみど. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eenscray oorday

   

Spanish

  

puerta de tela metálica. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Screen Door

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-n-o-o-r-r-s"

-2 letters: censored, condores, cornered, coroners, corrodes, crooners, encoders, endorser, endorsor, necrosed, rescored, seconder.

-3 letters: condoes, condors, corders, cordons, corners, coroner, corrode, crooned, crooner, decerns, droners, encoder, encodes, encored, encores, endorse, necrose, recodes, records, renders, reredos, rescore, scorned, scorner, seconde, secondo.

-4 letters: ceders, censed, censer, censor, codens, coders, codons, condor, condos, cooeed, cooees, cooers, corder, cordon, corers, corned, corner, credos, creeds, crones, croons, crores, decern, decors, denser, donees, donors, dorser, droner, drones, encode, encore, enders, erodes, nodose, noosed, nooser, odeons, orders, recode, recons, record, redoes, redone, redons, render, rerose, resend, rodeos, rondos, roosed, rooser, roscoe, scored, scorer, screed, screen, secern, second, sender, snored, snorer, sonder, sooner, sordor, sorned, sorner.

-5 letters: ceder, cedes, cense, cered, ceres, ceros, coden, coder, codes, codon, coeds, condo, coned, cones, cooed, cooee, cooer, coons, cords, cored, corer, cores, corns, corse, credo, creed, crone, croon, crore, decor, decos, deers, denes, dense, doers, donee, donor, doors, dorrs, doser, drees, drone, ender, ernes, erode, erose, erred, needs, nerds, nodes, noose, nosed, odeon, odors, onces, order, ordos, recon, redes, redon, redos, reeds, rends, resod, rodeo, rondo, roods, roose, rosed, scend, scene, scone, score, scorn, scree, scrod, seder, senor, sered, serer, sneer, snood, snore, sonde, sorer.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-n-o-o-r-r-s"
 

+2 letters: corresponded.

 

+3 letters: adrenochromes, correspondent, counterorders, redecorations.

 

+4 letters: correspondence, correspondency, correspondents.

 

+5 letters: correspondences, overconstructed, overdecorations, reconsideration.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Screen Door


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 63 72 65 65 6E      44 6F 6F 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100101 01101110 00100000 01000100 01101111 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#114 &#101 &#101 &#110 &#32 &#68 &#111 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0072 0065 0065 006E      0044 006F 006F 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

536984717180238818184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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