"screen door" meaning in English

See screen door in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: screen doors [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} screen door (plural screen doors)
  1. (US) A light door of mesh, outside of another door, used to prevent ingress by insects. Wikipedia link: screen door Tags: US Coordinate_terms: storm door Translations (A light door of mesh): porta mosquitera [feminine] (Catalan), porte moustiquaire [feminine] (French), doras greille [masculine] (Irish), 철망문 (cheolmangmun) (Korean), Drotdäa [feminine] (Plautdietsch), puerta mosquitera [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-screen_door-en-noun-3HGRy18k Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for screen door meaning in English (2.3kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "screen doors",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "screen door (plural screen doors)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "storm door"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1970 Joni Mitchell - \"Big Yellow Taxi\" (Lyrics) from \"Ladies of the Canyon\"\nLate last night I heard the screen door slam. / And a big yellow taxi took away my old man."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 February 28, David Axelrod, 3:57 from the start, in Axelrod calls out the 'brazenness' of DeSantis' 'non-campaign', CNN, archived from the original on 2023-02-28",
          "text": "He's got this book tour- what's the subtitle of his book? 'Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival'. This is about as subtle as a screen door on a submarine. It's pretty clear what's going on here, but he says he's not going to announce until June.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A light door of mesh, outside of another door, used to prevent ingress by insects."
      ],
      "id": "en-screen_door-en-noun-3HGRy18k",
      "links": [
        [
          "mesh",
          "mesh"
        ],
        [
          "ingress",
          "ingress"
        ],
        [
          "insect",
          "insect"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) A light door of mesh, outside of another door, used to prevent ingress by insects."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "A light door of mesh",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "porta mosquitera"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "A light door of mesh",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "porte moustiquaire"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "A light door of mesh",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "doras greille"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "cheolmangmun",
          "sense": "A light door of mesh",
          "word": "철망문"
        },
        {
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "A light door of mesh",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Drotdäa"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "A light door of mesh",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "puerta mosquitera"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "screen door"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "screen door"
}
{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "storm door"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "screen doors",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "screen door (plural screen doors)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1970 Joni Mitchell - \"Big Yellow Taxi\" (Lyrics) from \"Ladies of the Canyon\"\nLate last night I heard the screen door slam. / And a big yellow taxi took away my old man."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 February 28, David Axelrod, 3:57 from the start, in Axelrod calls out the 'brazenness' of DeSantis' 'non-campaign', CNN, archived from the original on 2023-02-28",
          "text": "He's got this book tour- what's the subtitle of his book? 'Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival'. This is about as subtle as a screen door on a submarine. It's pretty clear what's going on here, but he says he's not going to announce until June.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A light door of mesh, outside of another door, used to prevent ingress by insects."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mesh",
          "mesh"
        ],
        [
          "ingress",
          "ingress"
        ],
        [
          "insect",
          "insect"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) A light door of mesh, outside of another door, used to prevent ingress by insects."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "screen door"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "A light door of mesh",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "porta mosquitera"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "A light door of mesh",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "porte moustiquaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "A light door of mesh",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "doras greille"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "cheolmangmun",
      "sense": "A light door of mesh",
      "word": "철망문"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "A light door of mesh",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Drotdäa"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A light door of mesh",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "puerta mosquitera"
    }
  ],
  "word": "screen door"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.