# door

Pronunciation: US say "DOR" /doɹ/; UK say "DAW" /dɔː/

## Noun

1. A movable panel, usually hinged or sliding, that opens and closes the entrance to a building, room, vehicle, or container such as a cabinet or oven.
   - Simple: The flat part that you open and close to go into a room, building, car, or cupboard.
   - _She knocked on the door and waited for an answer._
   - _The car's rear doors were dented in the crash._
2. The gap in a wall or vehicle that people pass through to enter or leave; the doorway.
   - Simple: The opening in a wall or vehicle that people go through to come in or go out.
   - _A tall man filled the door, blocking the light from the hall._
   - _Passengers squeezed one by one through the narrow door at the back of the bus._
3. A means of access or an opening to something, such as an opportunity; also a possibility that is kept open.
   - Simple: A way to reach something good, or a chance that something might still happen.
   - _A mentor can be the door to opportunities you'd never find alone._
   - _Their introduction served as a door into the city's art world._
4. A dwelling or building, especially as counted by its entrance when numbering houses along a street.
   - Simple: A house, often counted by its front entrance along a street.
   - _The shop is only a few doors down from the station._
   - _She borrowed sugar from the woman next door._
5. The money taken in admission charges or ticket sales at a bar, club, or other venue, especially the share of it paid to the performers.
   - Simple: The money collected from tickets or entry fees at a show, especially the part paid to the performers.
   - _The promoter kept the bar profits and gave the band the door._
   - _A packed house meant the door more than covered their travel costs._
7. A point of official entry into a country, especially for immigrants or travelers.
   - Simple: A place where people are allowed to enter a country.
   - _Inspectors at the harbor, the nation's busiest door for arriving immigrants, checked papers from dawn until dusk._
   - _Once the new highway opened, the small border crossing became a busy door into the country._

## Verb

6. To cause a collision by opening a vehicle's door into the path of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
   - Simple: To hit a passing cyclist or walker by opening a car door in their path.
   - _Before you step out, glance over your shoulder for bikes, since it's easy to door someone you never saw coming._
   - _The parked driver doored a courier who was speeding past._

## Other meanings

- (noun) A software mechanism that lets a user interact with a separate program running on a bulletin board system.

## Origin

From Middle English dore, from Old English duru ("door") and dor ("gate"), from Proto-Germanic *durz and *durą respectively, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- ("doorway, door, gate"). It is related to Dutch deur, German Tür, Latin foris, Ancient Greek thúra, and Sanskrit dvāra.

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