different between door vs entry

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)

1. 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.

2. Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.

3. (immigration) An entry point.
4. (figuratively) A means of approach or access.

   Learning is the door to wisdom.

5. (figuratively) A barrier.

6. (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)

1. (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

1. through

   Hij schoot de bal door het raam.

   He kicked the ball through the window.

2. across, around (within a certain space)

   Dolenthousiast rende het hondje door de kamer.

   Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.

3. because of, due to

   Door files kan ik niet op tijd komen.

   Because of traffic jams I'm unable to arrive on time.

4. by, by means of

   Hij vermeed een confrontatie door de andere kant op te lopen.

   He avoided a confrontation by walking the other way.

Inflection

Synonyms

(because of):

• vanwege

Derived terms

Related terms

• door-
• door middel van

Descendants

• Afrikaans: deur

Adverb

door

1. through
2. forward, on

   Ondanks slecht weer ging het feest toch door.

   Despite bad weather, the party went on anyway.

3. (postpositional, directional) through (implying motion)

   Ik rijd nu de stad door.

   I'm now driving through the city.

4. (postpositional, spatial) across, around (within a certain space)

   Dolenthousiast rende het hondje de kamer door.

   Very enthusiastically the puppy ran around the room.

5. (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)

1. (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

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)

1. 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.

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)

1. door

Further reading

• “door” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Somali

Verb

door

1. to choose

English

Alternative forms

• entery (chiefly archaic)

Etymology

From Old French entree (feminine past participle of the verb entrer, Modern French entrée). From Latin intr?re, present active infinitive of intr?.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n?tr?, IPA^(key): /??nt?i/
• Rhymes: -?nt?i
• Hyphenation: en?try

Noun

entry (countable and uncountable, plural entries)

1. The act of entering.
2. (uncountable) Permission to enter.

   Children are allowed entry only if accompanied by an adult.

3. A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
4. (law) The act of taking possession.
5. (insurance) The start of an insurance contract.
6. (Midlands) A passageway between terraced houses that provides a means of entering a back garden or yard.
7. A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
8. A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
9. An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
10. A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.

    What does the entry for 2 August 2005 say?

11. (linear algebra) A term at any position in a matrix.

    The entry in the second row and first column of this matrix is 6.

12. The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
13. (music) The point when a musician starts to play or sing; entrance.
14. (hunting) The introduction of new hounds into a pack.
    • 1956, Baily's Hunting Directory (page 311)

      Here was an excellent entry of hounds which would have fulfilled the late Earl Bathurst's dictum that breeders should always breed from hounds rather larger than those which they expect to put on.

Usage notes

Ambiguity Prevention

Synonyms

• (act of entering): access, enter, entrance
• (permission to enter): access, admission
• (doorway that provides a means of entering a building): entrance, ingang, way in (British)
• (passageway between terraced houses): See Thesaurus:alley
• (room just inside the front door of a building): See Thesaurus:entrance hall
• (group within a church):
• (article in a dictionary or encyclopedia): article, lemma, lexeme
• (record in a log): record
• (term in a matrix): element
• (item of data in a database):

Antonyms

• (act of entering): departure, exit, exiting, leaving
• (doorway that provides a means of entering a building): exit, way out (British)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Tyner, yrent