door
/doɹ/ noun A1- A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. It may have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold it closed, and a lock that ensures it cannot be opened without a key. · bathroom door, bedroom door, doorkey, exterior door, interior door· I knocked on the vice president's door.
- A building with a door, especially a house. · His house is three doors down.· He went five doors up the road to the bank.
- Any flap, etc., that opens like a door. · cupboard door· the 24 doors in an Advent calendar
- An entry point.
- A means of approach or access. · Learning is the door to wisdom.
- A possibility. · to leave the door open· all doors are open to somebody
- A barrier. · Keep a door on your anger.
- A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
Plural doors
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At the knock, the door was immediately opened, and the young man who was seated beside the countess, in obedience to the Italian custom, instantly rose and surrendered his place to the strangers, who, in turn, would be expected to retire upon the arrival of other visitors.
Dorothy stood in the door with Toto in her arms, and looked at the sky too.
Mercédès and the old man rushed to meet the shipowner and greeted him at the door.
We will leave Danglars struggling with the demon of hatred, and endeavoring to insinuate in the ear of the shipowner some evil suspicions against his comrade, and follow Dantès, who, after having traversed La Canebière, took the Rue de Noailles, and entering a small house, on the left of the Allées de Meilhan, rapidly ascended four flights of a dark staircase, holding the baluster with one hand, while with the other he repressed the beatings of his heart, and paused before a half-open door, from which he could see the whole of a small room.
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