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Sliding Door

Definition: Sliding Door

Sliding Door

Noun

1. A door that opens by sliding instead of swinging.

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


Crosswords: Sliding Door

English words defined with "sliding door": barn doordoorFlush boltOverhung doortrap door, Trapdoor. (references)
Specialty definitions using "sliding door": car unloader, CAR-DUMPER OPERATORFABRICATOR, SHOWER DOORS AND PANELSlouvers. (references)

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Photo Album: Sliding Door

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Closing sliding door to little-used parlor. Home in Scranton, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Use in Literature: Sliding Door

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

The two women pushed on the heavy sliding door, boosted it along until only a foot was open.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sliding 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

sliding door

418

sliding door bar

12

sliding door screen

122

sliding door handle

11

sliding door hardware

61

sliding door security

10

sliding door track

46

sliding door roller

9

sliding door lock

38

glass sliding door install

9

window treatment for glass sliding door

27

installing sliding door

9

interior sliding door

25

sliding door blind

9

anderson sliding door

24

sliding door system

7

automatic sliding door

17

sliding door part

7

sliding door movie

16

sliding door drape

5

sliding door repair

14

sliding door latch

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sliding Door

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

Arabic 

  

‏باب جرار. (various references)

   

Czech

  

posuvné dveře. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

työntöovi. (various references)

   

French

  

coulisse (slide, slip). (various references)

   

German

  

Schiebetür. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συρομένη πόρτα. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"לת זחיח", "לת "זז". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tolóajtó (hatch, sash-door, traverse). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

繰り戸 , 引戸 , 引き戸 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

くりど, ひきど. (various references)

   

Manx

  

dorrys shliawin. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

idingslay oorday

   

Portuguese

  

porta corrediça. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

раздвижная дверь. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

puerta corrediza. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skjutdörr. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sürgülü kapı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sliding Door

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-g-i-i-l-n-o-o-r-s"

-3 letters: doodling, drooling, ligroins, lordings, riddling.

-4 letters: dirling, dirndls, drongos, girosol, indigos, indoors, lidding, ligroin, logions, loosing, lording, oodlins, origins, ridding, ridgils, ridings, rodding, roiling, roosing, rosinol, sidling, signior, signori, siloing, sirloin, sliding, sodding, soiling, soloing, sordini, sordino.

-5 letters: dildos, dirndl, doings, doling, dolors, donors, dosing, droids, drongo, drools, girons, godson, grinds, grison, groins.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-g-i-i-l-n-o-o-r-s"
 

+5 letters: oligodendroglias.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Sliding Door


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

53 6C 69 64 69 6E 67      44 6F 6F 72

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

    

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

01010011 01101100 01101001 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000100 01101111 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#108 &#105 &#100 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#68 &#111 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006C 0069 0064 0069 006E 0067      0044 006F 006F 0072

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

53787570758073238818184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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