door
//do(ː)ɹ//
Forms
- Plural
- doors
- present (v1)
- door
- past (v2)
- doored
- past participle (v3)
- doored
- present participle
- dooring
- 3rd person singular
- doors
Definitions
1.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.
- That's the door to the bathroom.
- I knocked on the vice president's door.
- ‘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.’
2.An entry point.
- My mother carefully opened the door.
- Please, do come in. The door is open.
- Open the door for love.
3.A building with a door, especially a house.
- His house is three doors down.
- You brought this problem to my door.
- He went five doors up the road to the bank.
4.Any flap, etc., that opens like a door.
- My mother carefully opened the door.
- Please, do come in. The door is open.
- Open the door for love.
1.To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
- 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.
- He [Pete Karageorgos] said cyclists who are doored are entitled to claim accident benefits from the driver's insurer if they aren't covered by a policy of their own.
- To avoid being doored, cyclists such as Vilain, Davis-Overstreet and Michael Schneider monitor as many telltale signs as possible: shadows, brake lights, the actions of people sitting in the driver's seat.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #385
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Very common
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *dur, from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr, from *dʰwer- (“doorway, door, gate”).
Cognates