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Short for acrow prop. [(genericised brand name) An adjustable-height steel support used in the construction industry, typically to temporarily support structures while work is carried out.]
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(genericised brand name) An adjustable-height steel support used in the construction industry, typically to temporarily support structures while work is carried out.
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(obsolete) At the door, or through the door.
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(perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
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A pole or post onto the front of which items to be used are attached.
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A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.
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The handrail on the side of a staircase.
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Alternative form of banister [The handrail on the side of a staircase.]
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(transitive, intransitive) to fit (e.g. a window or door) with bars
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see barn, doors.
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The large door of a barn
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A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
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Brightly coloured tape used to discourage intrusion into a possibly hazardous area.
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A structure that bars passage.
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(military, historical) A heavy steel fence, typically mounted on concrete rollers, used as a mobile antitank obstacle during World War II.
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(Lineman, slang) Used in construction utility linework to create an open point in distribution lines.
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(chiefly UK) A permanent sign installed in a public place to commemorate a historical link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site.
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(intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
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(figuratively) A person who connects others.
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A person who builds or constructs things.
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Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
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A door that is reminiscent of the looks and styles of the original carriage house doors.
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(linguistics, phonology) In phonaesthetics, a quintessential example of an inherently pleasant-sounding phrase irrespective of its meaning.
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Alternative spelling of cellar door [A door leading to a cellar.]
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Alternative form of church door [A door to a church; a church door.]
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Alternative form of church door [A door to a church; a church door.]
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(of an area) segregated or delineated by traffic cones
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To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.
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A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
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A transept; the lateral divisions of a cruciform church.
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(military, in the plural) A pair of batteries commanding the same spot from different directions.
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(UK) A fence or barrier that divides the space occupied by a large crowd in order to prevent people from being crushed.
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(US) The grassy area between the sidewalk and the street.
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(countable, Britain) An open passage at a level lower than the surrounding terrain, dug for a canal, railway, or road to go through.
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(US, architecture) a door to the outside from the parlor or hall to allow for the movement of the dead; from the time when the wealthy would host their wakes and funerals in their own homes. It is a supplementary door to the main doors of the home, unconnected from exterior stairs or walkways. The death door existed to allow for the dead to move through doors without needing to use the doorways used by the living.
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(UK) A gatepost or doorpost.
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An opening in a door where a dog can enter and leave a house without requiring a human to open the door.
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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.
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Someone who opens doors.
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Alternative form of doorframe [The frame into which a door is fitted.]
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The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.
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Obsolete spelling of 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.]
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Either of the upright posts on either side of a door, which together support a lintel.
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An individual door panel, particularly in the context of double or sliding doors.
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The line formed by the edge of a door, especially that of a motor car.
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The horizontal piece of material at the threshold of a doorway; a doorstep.
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(obsolete) The entrance or place of a door.
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The passage of a door; a door-shaped entrance into a house or a room.
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Synonym of double door: A set of two adjoining doors that can be opened independently.
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Obsolete spelling of 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.]
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A door that is divided horizontally into two parts such that the upper part may be opened independently of the lower.
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A technique for opening a motor vehicle door to avoid striking (“dooring”) passing cyclists or other road users by reaching across the body for the door latch with the more distant hand.
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A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.
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A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
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A barricade of heaped earth for protection from gunfire.
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The outermost strip of a road.
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The stairs at the front of a building, traditionally those used by the occupants rather than by tradesmen, etc.
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(real estate) In Taiwan, a house with four doors, specifically a house with a garage, a garage door that connects to the home, a front door, and a back door.
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The habitual or designated main entrance to a room that has more than one door.
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The door, or one of a set of doors, on a garage, allowing to close the entrance.
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A doorlike structure outside a house.
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Arranged to resemble a gate.
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A barrier intended to keep one group (usually against their will) separate from another.
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Alternative form of glass door [A door made of glass.]
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Alternative form of glass door [A door made of glass.]
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(architecture) A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar.
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A gate that can be opened and closed by hand.
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Of a road, street, etc., having a hedge running along one or both edges.
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A door to a house; a house's door.
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Alternative spelling of house door [A door to a house; a house's door.]
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Alternative spelling of house door [A door to a house; a house's door.]
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A Jersey wall; a wall composed of Jersey barriers that separates lanes of traffic.
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(genericized trademark, US, slang) A scissor door.
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Alternative form of lashline [(cosmetics) The line of the eyelash.]
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(automotive) A closure at the rear of a vehicle, or rear door, that can be raised to access the back of a vehicle
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A small space with two sets of interlocking doors, such that the first set of doors must close before the second set opens, used to restrict access.
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A foundation consisting of a single, generally large-diameter, structural element that supports the entire load of a large above-surface structure.
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Alternative form of Jersey barrier [A modular concrete or plastic barrier designed to create walls that separate lanes of traffic or to block traffic.]
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(chiefly in the plural) A sliding door, usually made of glass, that opens onto a patio, deck or garden.
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An opening in a door for pets to come in and out of the house without requiring a human to open the door.
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(motor racing) The wall to the side of the pit lane
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A type of door having the central panels filled with horizontal louvres.
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A door that slides into the wall.
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A grandiose and often lavish entrance.
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Alternative spelling of portière [A car door.]
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(nonstandard) Having railings.
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Alternative form of ranchslider [(New Zealand) A kind of sliding glass door with a moving panel that slides behind a fixed panel.]
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Small, temporary scaffolding, often equipped with wheels, for small-scale building work
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An automobile door that rotates vertically at a fixed hinge at the front of the door, rather than outward as with a conventional door.
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Alternative spelling of screen door [(US) A light door of mesh, outside of another door, used to prevent ingress by insects.]
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Alternative form of surmark [(shipbuilding) A mark made on the moulds of a ship to show where the angles of the timbers are to be placed.]
adj
(UK, rail transport) Applied to an older kind of passenger train with heavy doors, opened from the inside by reaching out of the window to the handle on the outside.
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(figuratively, 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.
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The stairs, landings, hallways, or other portions of the public hall through which it is necessary to pass when going from the entrance floor to the other floors of a building.
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A gate fitted across a domestic staircase to prevent young children from climbing the stairs, or falling down them.
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A set of one or more steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass.
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A secondary door placed exterior to the primary door, to better weatherproof an entrance. Those storm doors that are also screen doors can be used for ventilation purposes when the primary door remains open. Typically found on front doors, rear doors, side doors, balcony doors.
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(slang) A car door hinged towards the rear of the vehicle.
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A barrier of netting erected along the edge of a bridge or other tall structure to prevent people from committing suicide by leaping from it.
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Alternative form of swing door [A door that is opened by either pushing or pulling from either side (i.e. opens both ways) and is not normally capable of being locked.]
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A type of walkway paving tile, consisting of a dot array block and a line stack block, used to inform visually impaired pedestrians of a route (lined path) and danger ahead (dotted threshold).
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Alternative form of trapdoor [A hinged or sliding door set into a floor or ceiling.]
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(engineering) Structures consisting of trusses.
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(intransitive) To dig a tunnel.
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Fitted or equipped with turnstiles.
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Alternative spelling of V-line. [(slang) The iliac furrow.]
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a hand railing attached to a wall
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