different between interview vs doorstop

English

Etymology

From Old French entreveue (French entrevue), feminine singular past participle of entrevëoir, from entre- + vëoir (“to see”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??nt?vju?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??nt?vju?/

Noun

interview (plural interviews)

1. (obsolete) An official face-to-face meeting of monarchs or other important figures. [16th-19th c.]
2. Any face-to-face meeting, especially of an official nature. [from 17th c.]
3. A conversation in person (or, by extension, over the telephone, Internet etc.) between a journalist and someone whose opinion or statements he or she wishes to record for publication, broadcast etc. [from 19th c.]

4. A formal meeting, in person, for the assessment of a candidate or applicant. [from 20th c.]

5. An audition.
6. A police interrogation of a suspect or party in an investigation. [from 20th c.]

Derived terms

• exit interview
• job interview

Descendants

• ? Esperanto: intervjuo
• ? French: interview
• ? German: Interview
• Italian: intervista
• ? Japanese: ??????
• ? Korean: ??? (inteobyu)
• Lithuanian: interviu
• ? Malay: interviu
• Portuguese: entrevista
• Romanian: interviu
• ? Russian: ????????? (interv?jú)
• Spanish: entrevista

Translations

Verb

interview (third-person singular simple present interviews, present participle interviewing, simple past and past participle interviewed)

1. (transitive) To ask questions of (somebody); to have an interview.

   He interviewed the witness.

   The witness was interviewed.

2. (intransitive) To be interviewed; to attend an interview.
   • 2000, U.S. News and World Report: Volume 129, Issues 18-25

     When she interviewed with Microsoft in August, she overlooked a small cut in salary and asked about long-term career opportunities — and quality of life.

Derived terms

• interviewee
• interviewer

Translations

References

• interview in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• interview in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Further reading

• Interview on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• interview on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Czech

Noun

interview n

1. interview (conversation intended for recording statements for publication)

Related terms

• See vize

Further reading

• interview in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• interview in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English interview.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt?r?vju/

Noun

interview n (plural interviews, diminutive interviewtje n)

1. interview (conversation intended for recording statements for publication)

Verb

interview

1. first-person singular present indicative of interviewen
2. imperative of interviewen

Related terms

• interviewen
• herinterviewen
• interviewer
• interviewster
• geïnterviewde

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t??.vju/, /in.t??.vju/

Noun

interview f (plural interviews)

1. interview (by a journalist)

Derived terms

• interviewer

Related terms

• entrevue

Further reading

• “interview” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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