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door
English
Etymology
From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?w?r, from *d?wer- (“doorway, door, gate”). Cognate with Scots door (“door”), Saterland Frisian Doore (“door”), West Frisian doar (“door”), Dutch deur (“door”), German Low German Door, Döör (“door”), German Tür (“door”), Tor (“gate”), Danish and Norwegian dør (“door”), Icelandic dyr (“door”), Latin foris and foras, Ancient Greek ???? (thúra), Albanian derë pl. dyer, Central Kurdish ?????? (derge), derî, Persian ??? (dar), Russian ????? (dver?), Hindi ????? (dv?r) / ????? (dv?r), Armenian ???? (du?), Irish doras, Lithuanian durys.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dô, IPA(key): /d??/
- (General American) enPR: dôr, IPA(key): /d??/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: d?r?, IPA(key): /do(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /do?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: daw (non-rhotic with caught-court merger (most of England, Australia, New York))
- Homophone: dour (cure-force merger; one pronunciation)
- Homophone: dough (non-rhotic with dough-door merger (AAVE, non-rhotic Southern accents))
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
door (plural doors)
- A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed, and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
- Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
- (immigration) An entry point.
- (figuratively) A means of approach or access.
- Learning is the door to wisdom.
- (figuratively) A barrier.
- (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
Meronyms
- handle
- latch
- lock
Hyponyms
- front door
- sliding door
Derived terms
Related terms
Meronyms
Translations
See also
- gate
Verb
door (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.
Translations
Anagrams
- Rood, odor, ordo, rood
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do?r/
- Hyphenation: door
- Rhymes: -o?r
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch d?re, from Old Dutch thuro, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw.
Preposition
door
- through
- Hij schoot de bal door het raam.
- He kicked the ball through the window.
- Hij schoot de bal door het raam.
- across, around (within a certain space)
- Dolenthousiast rende het hondje door de kamer.
- Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.
- Dolenthousiast rende het hondje door de kamer.
- because of, due to
- Door files kan ik niet op tijd komen.
- Because of traffic jams I'm unable to arrive on time.
- Door files kan ik niet op tijd komen.
- by, by means of
- Hij vermeed een confrontatie door de andere kant op te lopen.
- He avoided a confrontation by walking the other way.
- Hij vermeed een confrontatie door de andere kant op te lopen.
Inflection
Synonyms
(because of):
- vanwege
Derived terms
Related terms
- door-
- door middel van
Descendants
- Afrikaans: deur
Adverb
door
- through
- forward, on
- Ondanks slecht weer ging het feest toch door.
- Despite bad weather, the party went on anyway.
- Ondanks slecht weer ging het feest toch door.
- (postpositional, directional) through (implying motion)
- Ik rijd nu de stad door.
- I'm now driving through the city.
- Ik rijd nu de stad door.
- (postpositional, spatial) across, around (within a certain space)
- Dolenthousiast rende het hondje de kamer door.
- Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.
- Dolenthousiast rende het hondje de kamer door.
- (postpositional, temporal) throughout, round (occurring all the time – constantly or frequently – within a certain time period)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: deur
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch dôre. Cognate to German Tor. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
door m (plural doren)
- (now Southern, archaic) fool, moron
- 1869, Frans de Cort, "Walter van de Vogelweide als paedagoog" (article including a poem), in Frans de Cort (ed.), De toekomst. Tijdschrift voor opvoeding en onderwijs, Vol. 3, No. 6, page 245.
- Past ook op uwe ooren / Beter dan de doren!
- Synonyms: dwaas, nar, zot
- 1869, Frans de Cort, "Walter van de Vogelweide als paedagoog" (article including a poem), in Frans de Cort (ed.), De toekomst. Tijdschrift voor opvoeding en onderwijs, Vol. 3, No. 6, page 245.
Related terms
- dwaas
Anagrams
- oord, rood
Old Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin dolor (“pain”), dol?ris.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do.?o?/
Noun
door f (plural doores)
- pain
- 13th century, Afonso X the wise, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E Codex, Cantiga 206:
- ? untou lle b? a chaga / ? perdeu Log a door. / ? po?? el a ?ua mão. / ben firme en ?eu logar
- And anointed well the wound / and soon the pain was gone. / And put his hand / very firmly in its place.
- ? untou lle b? a chaga / ? perdeu Log a door. / ? po?? el a ?ua mão. / ben firme en ?eu logar
- 13th century, Afonso X the wise, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E Codex, Cantiga 206:
Related terms
- doorida, doorido
- doorosa
Descendants
- Galician: dor
- Portuguese: dor
- Kabuverdianu: dór
Scots
Alternative forms
- dour
Etymology
From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?w?r, from *d?wer- (“doorway, door, gate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [du?r]
Noun
door (plural doors)
- door
Further reading
- “door” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Somali
Verb
door
- to choose
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clicket
English
Etymology 1
Verb
clicket (third-person singular simple present clickets, present participle (UK) clicketting or (US) clicketing, simple past and past participle (UK) clicketted or (US) clicketed)
- (intransitive, of a fox or foxes) To be in oestrus; to copulate.
- The sound of the clicketting foxes was unmistakable.
Etymology 2
Old French cliquet (“the latch of a door”). See click.
Noun
clicket (plural clickets)
- (Britain, dialect) The knocker of a door.
- (Britain, dialect) A latchkey.
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Merchant's Tale (modern translation)
- He carried always the small silver clicket
With which, as pleased him, he'd unlock the gate.
- He carried always the small silver clicket
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Merchant's Tale (modern translation)
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