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.
Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
A non-physical entry into the next world, a particular feeling, a company, etc.
(computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
Verbit
(transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
Esimerkit
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.
‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’