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Definition: Screen Door |
Screen DoorNoun1. 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 DoorSynonym: screen (n). (additional references) |
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 OPERATOR ♦ SCREEN TACKER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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Consumer Goods | |||
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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. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Two gasoline pumps in front, a screen door, a long bar, stools, and a foot rail. |
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| 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 |
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. | |
| 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 puerta de tela metálica. (various references) | ||||||||||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 72 65 65 6E      44 6F 6F 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100101 01101110 00100000 01000100 01101111 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c r e e n   D o o r |
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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