door meaning
EN
[dɔː] [dɔɹ] [do(ː)ɹ] [doə] [-ɔː(ɹ)] 
UK US WDoor
- A door is a moving structure used to block off, and allow access to, an entrance to or within an enclosed space, such as a building or vehicle. Similar exterior structures are called gates.
- When open, doors admit people, animals, ventilation or light. The door is used to control the physical atmosphere within a space by enclosing the air drafts, so that interiors may be more effectively heated or cooled.
- Doors are used to screen areas of a building for aesthetics, keeping formal and utility areas separate. Doors also have an aesthetic role in creating an impression of what lies beyond.
- NounPLdoors
- A portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed, and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
- 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.
- Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
- the 24 doors in an Advent calendar
- (immigration) An entry point.
- A non-physical entry into the next world, a particular feeling, a company, etc.
- Keep a door on your anger.
- (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
- A portal of entry into a building, room or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed, and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
- VerbSGdoorsPRdooringPT, PPdoored
- (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
- (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- A guy came to my door selling some weird coupon subscription. I told him to go fly a kite.
- She accidentally rubbed up against the painted door and got green paint on her blouse.
- A door in the middle leading to a parlor and withdrawing-room. — Sir Walter Scott.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Sometimes running to the football, you're going to overpursue, and he may break it all the way out back out the back door.
- The organization had been running on fumes for months, so it's not surprising that they closed their doors.
- He stuffed his clothes into the closet and shut the door.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of door in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "door" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.