door
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Is door a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (architecture) 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.Examples: "I knocked on the vice president's door."; "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."; "‘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. (metonymic, chiefly in the plural) A building with a door, especially a house.Examples: "His house is three doors down."; "He went five doors up the road to the bank."; "We walked three doors up the street where we stopped in front 71 Richard D. Kutz."in-pluralmetonymically
3. (immigration) An entry point.
4. (figurative) A means of approach or access.Examples: "Learning is the door to wisdom."figuratively
5. (figurative) A possibility.Examples: "to leave the door open"; "all doors are open to somebody"figuratively
6. (figurative) A barrier.Examples: "Keep a door on your anger."figuratively
verb (English)
1. (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.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."; "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."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary