"sliding door" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sliding doors [plural]
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 (Chinese Mandarin), 推拉门 (tuīlāmén) (Chinese Mandarin), skydedør [common-gender] (Danish), schuifdeur (Dutch), liukuovi (Finnish), porte coulissante [feminine] (French), Schiebetür [feminine] (German), 引き戸 (alt: ひきど, hikido, ひきと, hikito) (Japanese), 미닫이문 (midajimun) (Korean), 미닫이 (midaji) (Korean), 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 correriza [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, from the plot of the film 'Sliding Doors') Denotes a crucial decision point at which outcomes diverge depending on which of two courses is followed. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-sliding_door-en-noun-lxY1xiHc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 81

Inflected forms

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