different between sandwich vs doorstop

English

Etymology

Named after its supposed inventor, the Earl of Sandwich (see Sandwich).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sæn(d)w?d??/, /?sæn(d)w?t??/, /?sæmw?d??/, /?sæ?w?d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sæn?(d)w?t??/, /?sæm?w?t??/, /?sæm??t??/, /?sæ??w?t??/
• Homophone: SDCH

Noun

sandwich (plural sandwiches or sandwichs)

1. A dish or foodstuff where two or more slices of bread serve as the wrapper or container of some other food.
   • 2002, Serena Carrington, Avalon, Writers Club Press, p.92:

     He laid out a linen tablecloth and a few sandwichs from some bread, dressing, and beef.

   • 2012, Allie McNeil, Watergate Summer, AuthorHouse, p.160:

     And the only "care" I could offer was egg sandwichs and Lilly's unfaltering attention.

2. (by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
3. (Britain) A layer cake or sandwich cake.

Usage notes

• In Ireland and the UK, sandwich often presupposes sliced bread, in which case similar foods made with other types of bread are called "filled roll", "filled bap", etc.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:sandwich

Hyponyms

• (closed, ground beef, on a bun): hamburger, burger
• (closed, other meats, on a bun): -burger, hot dog
• (closed, ground beef, on bread): patty melt

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

References

Verb

sandwich (third-person singular simple present sandwiches, present participle sandwiching, simple past and past participle sandwiched)

1. To place one item between two other, usually flat, items
2. (figuratively) To put or set something between two others, in time.
3. (sex) To double penetrate

Translations

Adjective

sandwich (not comparable)

1. (US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

Usage notes

• The adjective sense is used primarily by restaurants specializing in barbecue, and does not imply that the meal includes an actual sandwich.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sanvitsj/, [?san??id??], [?san?wid??], [?san??id?s]

Noun

sandwich c (singular definite sandwichen, plural indefinite sandwich or sandwicher)

1. sandwich

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “sandwich” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich, after the Earl of Sandwich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?nd.??t?/
• Hyphenation: sand?wich

Noun

sandwich m (plural sandwiches, diminutive sandwichje n)

1. sandwich

Usage notes

• A sandwich is more commonly called a boterham (which may also denote a single slice of bread) or a broodje (which may also denote a bun or roll) in Dutch.

Derived terms

• sandwichman

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.dwi?/, /s??.dwit?/

Noun

sandwich m (plural sandwichs or sandwiches)

1. sandwich (food)

Usage notes

• French does not follow the English rule of adding es to nouns ending in the sound /t?/. Since the final /s/ is not pronounced in the plural, there is no difficulty in pronouncing the plural formed by adding s rather than es.

Derived terms

• sandwicherie
• croissandwich
• prendre en sandwich

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?ndwit?/

Noun

sandwich m (invariable)

1. sandwich

Derived terms

• sandwicheria f

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English sandwich

Noun

sandwich m (definite singular sandwichen, indefinite plural sandwicher, definite plural sandwichene)

1. a sandwich

References

• “sandwich” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “sandwich” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English sandwich, supposedly named for its inventor, the Earl of Sandwich.

Noun

sandwich m (definite singular sandwichen, indefinite plural sandwichar, definite plural sandwichane)

1. a sandwich

References

• “sandwich” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Noun

sandwich m (plural sandwiches)

1. Misspelling of sándwich.

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