door

I knocked on the vice president's door.

Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. It may have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold it closed, and a lock that ensures it cannot be opened without a key.

His house is three doors down.

He went five doors up the road to the bank.

We walked three doors up the street where we stopped in front 71 Richard D. Kutz.

2012 June, Richard D. Kutz, Up the Park, First Books, →ISBN, page 71:

"...The storage room is about, oh, three doors down, on the left. I'll point it out as we go by. Pay attention so you know where you have to come back to. Only then it'll be — let me see — about five doors down on your right."

2015 February 2, Laurel Deedrick-Mayne, A Wake For The Dreamland, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 24:

A woman pushes a stroller in the direction of the synagogue, and another, just one door down from Pessie's apartment, is unloading groceries from her minivan.

2024 March 26, Julia Dahl, Run You Down: A Novel, Macmillan + ORM, →ISBN:

(metonymically, chiefly in the plural) A building with a door, especially a house.

the 24 doors in an Advent calendar

Learning is the door to wisdom.

(figurative) A means of approach or access.

to leave the door open

all doors are open to somebody

Keep a door on your anger.

bulletin board system
bulletin board system#English

(computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.

The bar owner gives each band a percentage of the door and charges customers more to get in.

The proceeds from entrance fees and/or ticket sales at a venue such as a bar or nightclub, especially in relation to portion paid to the entertainers.

doors (plural)
doore (alternative)
durre (alternative)

a creaking door hangs long on its hinges

at church every time the doors swing open

close the stable door after the horse has bolted

don't let the door hit you on the way out

let the door hit you where the good Lord split you

Belizean Creole: doa

Sranan Tongo: doro

пчъэ

portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

non-rhotic, dough–door merger, African-American Vernacular

dour (in one pronunciation, with the pour–poor merger)

From Middle English dore, dor, from Old English duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *dur, from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr, from *dʰwer- (“doorway, door, gate”).
Cognates
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 θύρα (thúra), Albanian derë pl. dyer, Central Kurdish دەرگە (derge), derî, Persian در (dar), Russian дверь (dverʹ), Hindi द्वार (dvār), Armenian դուռ (duṙ), Irish doras, Sanskrit द्वार (dvāra), Lithuanian durys.


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Kerr has acted for numerous clients who have been doored, including one man knocked off his bike and on to spiked railings, and another who ended up hitting a tree.

2018 February 6, Helen Pidd, “I got 'doored' while undertaking on my bike. Was it my fault?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-15:

He [Pete Karageorgos] said cyclists who are doored are entitled to claim accident benefits from the driver's insurer if they aren't covered by a policy of their own.

2019 December 15, Ben Spurr, “How an Ontario rule stops 'doored' cyclists from getting drivers' insurance info”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont.: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-04-27:

To avoid being doored, cyclists such as Vilain, Davis-Overstreet and Michael Schneider monitor as many telltale signs as possible: shadows, brake lights, the actions of people sitting in the driver's seat.

2023 December 19, Angie Orellana Hernandez, “Being doored to death is a cyclist’s nightmare. How can it be prevented?”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-04-22:

(transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

en-verb

door (third-person singular simple present doors, present participle dooring, simple past and past participle doored)

doors (present singular third-person)
dooring (participle present)
doored (participle past)
doored (past)
doore (alternative)
durre (alternative)

emportiérer

to cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian