different between doorstep vs doorstop

English

Etymology

From door +? step.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

doorstep (plural doorsteps)

1. An outside step leading up to the door of a building, usually a home.

2. (figuratively) One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.

3. (Britain, informal) A big slice, especially of bread.
   • 2003, Diana Wynne Jones, The Merlin Conspiracy, P 241 ?ISBN

     I cut myself a doorstep of bread with masses of butter and went along to see Romanov while I was eating it.

Translations

Verb

doorstep (third-person singular simple present doorsteps, present participle doorstepping, simple past and past participle doorstepped)

1. (intransitive) To visit one household after another to solicit sales, charitable donations, political support, etc.
2. (transitive, journalism) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.

See also

• ambush journalism

Anagrams

• droopest, optrodes, pet doors, torpedos

Danish

Noun

doorstep

1. (journalism) A short and informal press briefing

English

Alternative forms

• doorstopper

Etymology

door +? stop

Pronunciation

Noun

doorstop (plural doorstops)

1. Any device or object used to halt the motion of a door, as a large or heavy object, a wedge, or some piece of hardware fixed to the floor, door or wall.
2. (humorous) A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.
   • 2010, Jack Hitt, Is Sarah Palin Porn?, Laura Flanders (editor), At The Tea Party: The Wing Nuts, Whack Jobs and Whitey-Whiteness of the New Republican Right... and Why We Should Take It Seriously, page 206,

     Meanwhile, all the Democrats had to put forward that year was a doorstop called Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill.

3. (Britain) (in error for doorstep) A thick sandwich.
4. (Australia) An interview with a politician or other public figure (apparently informal or spontaneous but often planned), as they enter or leave a building.
   • 2010, Anne Tiernan, Patrick Weller, Learning to Be a Minister: Heroic Expectations, Practical Realities, page 218,

     It was estimated, for example, that Treasurer Wayne Swan had given more than 250 interviews and doorstops by the end of his first year in office.

Translations

Anagrams

• doorpost