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  1. noun A movable structure used to close off an entrance, typically consisting of a panel that swings on hinges or that slides or rotates.
  2. noun A similar part on a piece of furniture or a vehicle.
  3. noun A doorway.
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  • Beyond the door was an enclosed service porch crammed with cardboard cartons; the stenciling on them said they contained mailing boxes. —  process 11
  • He saw that the door was ajar Damned funny, he thought, that the guy was coming here. —  090 - Tunnel Terror
  • “Get out of here,” he thought sharply, “get out!” The latch of the door was at a normal height. —  Astounding, January 1943
  • Just inside the door was a hideous iron dog, originally intended for Victorian lawns or perhaps for Hell, and its hollowed ears served as sockets for test tubes. —  Astounding, January 1943
  • The fellow at the door was your typical attache-toting bureaucrat: as physically unimpressive as an unweaned kitten, yet radiating a glow of self-satisfied power Nelson Nibbler. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 01 - July 2000
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  1. Middle English dor, from Old English duru, dor; see dhwer- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also doore, dore; in earlier speech the word appears in two forms more or less mixed: (1) Middle English dore, dor, from Anglo-Saxon dor (genitive dores, plural doru), Old Saxon dor = OFries. dore = Middle Low German dor = Low German door = Old High German Middle High German tor, German thor = Gothic (Moesogothic) daur, all neuter; (2) Middle English dure, dur, from Anglo-Saxon duru (genitive dura, plural dura, duru) (also rarely nominative dure, genitive and plural duran) = Old Saxon dura = OFries. dure = Dutch deur = Middle Low German dore =LG.döre=Old High German turi, plural, also singular, Middle High German tür, German thür = Icelandic dyrr, plural, = Swedish dörr = Danish dör = Gothic (Moesogothic) daurons, plural, a door, all feminine (Danish common) except the Icelandic, which is also neuter; all orig. plural The common Teutonic form is *dur- = Greek θύρα = Latin foris, usually in plural, fores (later ult. foris-, forum, foraneous, foreign, etc.), = Irish Gaelic dorus, later doras = Welsh drws = Old Bulgarian dvǐrǐ = Bohemian dvershe = Polish dzwierze, drzwi = Little Russian dveri = Russian dverǐ; = Lett, durwis = Lithuanian durīs = Zend dvara (later Persian dar, later Turkish der) = Sanskrit dvār, dur, feminine (later Hind, dvar, Gypsy duvar), all with the general sense of ‘door’ or ‘gate.’ In another view, referred to Sanskrit √ dhu, move quickly, shake, fan (a fire), = Greek θύειν, rush, storm, as the wind, being thus orig. (like window, q. v.) a passage for the air or wind.
 

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