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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Door \Door\, noun [OE. dore, dure, AS. duru; akin to OS. dura, dor, D. deur, OHG. turi, door, tor gate, G. th["u]r, thor, Icel. dyrr, Dan. d["o]r, Sw. d["o]rr, Goth. daur, Lith. durys, Russ. dvere, Olr. dorus, L. fores, Gr. ?; cf. Skr. dur, dv[=a]ra. [root]246. Cf. {Foreign}.]
1. An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.
To the same end, men several paths may tread, As many doors into one temple lead. --Denham.
2. The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened.
At last he came unto an iron door That fast was locked. --Spenser.
3. Passage; means of approach or access.
I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. --John x. 9.
4. An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.
Martin's office is now the second door in the street. --Arbuthnot.
{Blank door}, {Blind door}, etc. (Arch.) See under {Blank}, {Blind}, etc.
{In doors}, or {Within doors}, within the house.
{Next door to}, near to; bordering on.
A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult. --L'Estrange.
{Out of doors}, or {Without doors}, and, [colloquially], {Out doors}, out of the house; in open air; abroad; away; lost.
His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors. --Locke.
{To lay (a fault, misfortune, etc.) at one's door}, to charge one with a fault; to blame for.
{To lie at one's door}, to be imputable or chargeable to.
If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door. --Dryden.
Note: Door is used in an adjectival construction or as the first part of a compound (with or without the hyphen), as, door frame, doorbell or door bell, door knob or doorknob, door latch or doorlatch, door jamb, door handle, door mat, door panel.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
door
noun
1: a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle; "he knocked on the door"; "he slammed the door as he left"
2: the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close; "he stuck his head in the doorway" [syn: {doorway}, {room access}, {threshold}]
3: anything providing a means of access (or escape); "we closed the door to Haitian immigrants"; "education is the door to success"
4: a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road); "the office next door"; "they live two doors up the street from us"
5: a room that is entered via a door; "his office is the third door down the hall on the left"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "door": French door, access, adit, admission, admittance, archway, avenue, back door, barway, blowhole, bulkhead, carriage entrance, cellar door, cellarway, channel, chute, debouch, doorjamb, doorpost, doorway, egress, emunctory, entrance, entranceway, entree, entry, entryway, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, floodgate, flume, front door, gate, gatepost, gateway, hatch, hatchway, ingress, lintel, loophole, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, porch, pore, port, portal, porte cochere, postern, propylaeum, pylon, sally port, scuttle, side door, sluice, spiracle, spout, stile, storm door, tap, threshold, tollgate, trap, trap door, turnpike, turnstile, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, way, way out, weir
From U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) [gaz-county]:
Door -- U.S. County in Wisconsin Population (2000): 27961 Housing Units (2000): 19587 Land area (2000): 482.718703 sq. miles (1250.235648 sq. km) Water area (2000): 1887.109352 sq. miles (4887.590577 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2369.828055 sq. miles (6137.826225 sq. km) Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55 Location: 44.966330 N, 87.290784 W Headwords: Door Door, WI Door County Door County, WI
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