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Noun [English]

Forms: sliding doors [plural]
Etymology: (crucial decision point): From the plot of the film Sliding Doors. Etymology templates: {{sense|crucial decision point}} (crucial decision point): Head templates: {{en-noun}} sliding door (plural sliding doors)
  1. A door that opens and closes by sliding to the side; sometimes one of a pair. Related terms: up and over door Translations (door): 推拉門 /推拉门 (tuīlāmén) (Chinese Mandarin), skydedør [common-gender] (Danish), schuifdeur (Dutch), liukuovi (Finnish), porte coulissante [feminine] (French), Schiebetür [feminine] (German), pintu geser (Indonesian), 引き戸 (alt: ひきど, hikido, ひきと, hikito) (Japanese), 미닫이 (midaji) (Korean), 미닫이문 (midajimun) (Korean), pintu gelangsar (Malay), pintu gelongsor (Malay), pintu sorong (Malay), skyvedør [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), skuvedør f skyvedør [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), porta corrediça [feminine] (Portuguese), porta de correr [feminine] (Portuguese), раздвижны́е две́ри (razdvižnýje dvéri) [feminine, plural] (Russian), puerta corredera [feminine] (Spanish), puerta corrediza [feminine] (Spanish), skjutdörr [common-gender] (Swedish), sürgülü kapı (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-sliding_door-en-noun-tF-OMQKD Disambiguation of 'door': 100 0
  2. (figurative, attributive) Denotes a crucial decision point at which outcomes diverge depending on which of two courses is followed. Tags: attributive, figuratively
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      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "razdvižnýje dvéri",
      "sense": "door",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "раздвижны́е две́ри"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "door",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "puerta corredera"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "door",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "puerta corrediza"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "door",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skjutdörr"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "door",
      "word": "sürgülü kapı"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Sliding Doors"
  ],
  "word": "sliding door"
}

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