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door

[dawr, dohr]

–noun

1.	a movable, usually solid, barrier for opening and closing an entranceway, cupboard, cabinet, or the like, commonly turning on hinges or sliding in grooves.

2.	a doorway: to go through the door.

3.	the building, house, etc., to which a door belongs: My friend lives two doors down the street.

4.	any means of approach, admittance, or access: the doors to learning.

5.	any gateway marking an entrance or exit from one place or state to another: at heaven's door.

—Idioms

6.	lay at someone's door, to hold someone accountable for; blame; impute.

7.	leave the door open, to allow the possibility of accommodation or change; be open to reconsideration: The boss rejected our idea but left the door open for discussing it again next year.

8.	lie at someone's door, to be the responsibility of; be imputable to: One's mistakes often lie at one's own door.

9.	show someone the door, to request or order someone to leave; dismiss: She resented his remark and showed him the door.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME dore, OE duru door, dor gate; akin to G Tür, ON dyrr, Gk thýra, L foris, OIr dorus, OCS dvĭrĭ

Related forms:

doorless, adjective

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door (dôr, dōr)

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n.

1. A movable structure used to close off an entrance, typically consisting of a panel that swings on hinges or that slides or rotates.
2. A similar part on a piece of furniture or a vehicle.
A doorway.
The room or building to which a door belongs: They live three doors down the hall.
A means of approach or access: looking for the door to success.

tr.v. doored, door·ing, doors

Slang To strike (a passing bicyclist, for example) by suddenly opening a vehicular door.
To serve as a doorman or doorwoman of (a nightclub, for example).

[Middle English dor, from Old English duru, dor; see dhwer- in Indo-European roots.]
door'less adj.

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Door

Door\, n. [OE. dore, dure, AS. duru; akin to OS. dura, dor, D. deur, OHG. turi, door, tor gate, G. th["u]r, thor, Icel. dyrr, Dan. d["o]r, Sw. d["o]rr, Goth. daur, Lith. durys, Russ. dvere, Olr. dorus, L. fores, Gr. ?; cf. Skr. dur, dv[=a]ra. ????. Cf. Foreign.]

1. An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.

To the same end, men several paths may tread, As many doors into one temple lead. --Denham.

2. The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened.

At last he came unto an iron door That fast was locked. --Spenser.

3. Passage; means of approach or access.

I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. --John x. 9.

4. An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.

Martin's office is now the second door in the street. --Arbuthnot.

Blank door, Blind door, etc. (Arch.) See under Blank, Blind, etc.

In doors, or Within doors, within the house.

Next door to, near to; bordering on.

A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult. --L'Estrange.

Out of doors, or Without doors, and, colloquially, Out doors, out of the house; in open air; abroad; away; lost.

His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors. --Locke.

To lay (a fault, misfortune, etc.) at one's door, to charge one with a fault; to blame for.

To lie at one's door, to be imputable or chargeable to.

If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door. --Dryden.

Note: Door is used in an adjectival construction or as the first part of a compound (with or without the hyphen), as, door frame, doorbell or door bell, door knob or doorknob, door latch or doorlatch, door jamb, door handle, door mat, door panel.

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Language Translation for : door

Spanish: puerta,

German: die Tür,

Japanese: ドア

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door

M.E. merger of O.E. dor (neut.; pl. doru) "large door, gate," and O.E. duru (fem., pl. dura "door, gate, wicket"), both from P.Gmc. *dur-, from PIE *dhwer-/*dhwor- "a doorway, a door, a gate" (cf. Gk. thura, L. foris, Gaul. doro "mouth," Goth. dauro "gate," Skt. dvárah "door, gate," O.Pers. duvara- "door," O.Prus. dwaris "gate," Rus. dver' "a door"). The base form is frequently in dual or plural, leading to speculation that houses of the original Indo-Europeans had doors with two swinging halves. M.E. had both dure and dor; form dore predominated by 16c., but was supplanted by door.

"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of." [Ogden Nash]

First record of dooryard is c.1764, Amer.Eng.; doorstep is from 1810.

door

see at death's door; at one's door; back door; beat a path to someone's door; behind closed doors; close the door on; darken one's door; foot in the door; keep the wolf from the door; lay at someone's door; leave the door open; lock the barn door; next door to; open doors; open the door to; see someone out (to the door); show someone out (to the door); show someone the door.

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