[
US
/ˈdɔɹ/
]
[ UK /dˈɔː/ ]
[ UK /dˈɔː/ ]
NOUN
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a room that is entered via a door
his office is the third door down the hall on the left -
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
he knocked on the door
he slammed the door as he left -
a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road)
they live two doors up the street from us
the office next door -
anything providing a means of access (or escape)
education is the door to success
we closed the door to Haitian immigrants -
the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close
he stuck his head in the doorway
How To Use door In A Sentence
- The series ended with a battle between a door car and a dragster.
- If the indoor tables don't satisfy you, and if the weather is right, do ask for a table on the terrace.
- She distinguished the undrawing of iron bars, and then the countenance of Spalatro at her door, before she had a clear remembrance of her situation — that she was a prisoner in a house on a lonely shore, and that this man was her jailor. The Italian
- Only a bit of string looped round a nail in the doorpost held it shut.
- Some retailers, including Sears, have already held some "door-buster" early-morning sales, which makes Black Friday -- the day after Thanksgiving that's looked upon as a kick-off to the holiday shopping season -- a little "grayer," he said. Boulder Daily Camera Most Viewed
- We drove home in silence and, when he parked in our long driveway, I stopped to pluck some ixora flowers while Nnamabia unlocked the front door. Excerpt: The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Here, however, they are unlikely to survive the frosts although both impatiens and pelagoniums can be kept for next year in a heated greenhouse or brought indoors and used as house plants.
- Less than a minute later he had gone past the courts, down a stairwell and opened the fire door.
- I had to struggle through the crush to get to the door.
- In the early hours of New Year's Day, she said, Webb visited her home and smashed windows in her front door.
