door
Definition
A hinged, sliding, or revolving barrier at the entrance of a building or room
To remember it
Picture the smiling yellow door with an eye and a mouth, like a friendly face. Think of it as welcoming you into your home or room.
Examples
- A1
Please close the door when you leave — it is cold outside.
- A1
Someone is knocking at the door — could you go and see who it is?
- A2
The conference opened many doors for her — she made contacts that led directly to her next job.
- A2
Next door lives an elderly couple who have been in this neighborhood for over fifty years.
- B1
Behind closed doors — away from public scrutiny — the negotiations were more frank and more contentious than the official communiqués suggested.
- B1
The program is designed to open doors to higher education for students from disadvantaged backgrounds who might otherwise never consider applying.
- B2
The design of doorways — their width, height, ornamentation, and position — communicates social messages about welcome and exclusion, status and power, the public and the private, that architecture scholars have analyzed in detail.
- B2
The revolving door between the private sector and government — the movement of individuals between regulatory agencies and the industries they oversee — has been criticized as a source of conflicts of interest that undermine the public interest in effective regulation.
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