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plural doors
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. quotations examples
Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […] , down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess
Any flap, etc. that opens like a door. examples
(immigration) An entry point. examples
(figurative) A means of approach or access. examples
(figurative) A possibility. examples
(figurative) A barrier. examples
(computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door. examples
The proceeds from entrance fees and/or ticket sales at a venue such as a bar or nightclub, especially in relation to portion paid to the entertainers. examples
third-person singular simple present doors, present participle dooring, simple past and past participle doored
(transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian. quotations examples
Kerr has acted for numerous clients who have been doored, including one man knocked off his bike and on to spiked railings, and another who ended up hitting a tree.
2018 February 6, Helen Pidd, “I got ‘doored’ while undertaking on my bike. Was it my fault?”, in The Guardian