Word Finder - doors

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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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I knocked on the vice president's door

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Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.

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the 24 doors in an Advent calendar

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(immigration) An entry point.

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A means of approach or access.

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Learning is the door to wisdom.

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A barrier.

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Keep a door on your anger.

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A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.

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To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

Alarms sounded a few moments before the doors exploded off their hinges.

First she opened the double doors in the kitchen and found the spacious dining room.

She passed several men with guns hidden in the alcoves of doors as she walked.

She closed the doors when she left the room, anticipation increasing her pulse.

The light beyond the solid French doors made her flinch, but she forced herself to cross the doorway.

He reached a set of double doors.

Distressed by the idea, she found herself standing before the French doors again, looking at the green haze over the forest.

She threw the covers back and dashed to the patio doors, staring outside.

If it was a tornado, standing next to glass doors wasn't the smartest thing to do.

These Carolina country fools never lock their doors making it so easy it's scarcely a challenge.

However, what did I discover but the child at the sink alone and the doors to two stalls closed!

He strode through the vacant hallways to the verandah doors.

She trailed him down the stairs, eyes on the guests milling in the courtyard beyond the opened double doors.

She hadn't heard him enter but doubted the Dark One used doors.

He found a fifth of whiskey setting on the counter and opened half the cabinet doors before finding a glass.

He emerged in a hallway lined with stone doors.

Deidre crossed to it and opened both doors.

Deidre gazed around her, eyes settling on the green glow, visible through the French doors.

She walked to the French doors.

When the sun was up, she retreated from the French doors, troubled by the lost souls and what she did to make Gabriel's life worse, when she'd hoped to make it better.

She turned where he indicated, noticing the double French doors for the first time.

Curious, Deidre crossed to the doors.

Deidre gathered her composure with some difficulty and walked down the hallway, pausing four doors down to her room.

He led her past closed doors and through hallways carved out of black stone.

One set of massive metal doors was all the hall contained.

The placards on each of the other doors were blank, the doors closed with no sign of light around the edges.

Beyond the main room were two hallways, also packed, and opened doors along both where men and women circulated.

The French doors were locked, and she beat on them, looking around wildly for deck furniture to break the glass.

She trailed the robed man through two doors and into a hot, dry night.

She tugged the heavy door open by its old iron handle and gazed into a large square of grass, a courtyard, around which many similar rooms with heavy doors were arranged.

They crossed more intersections, descended to the level below, and stopped outside of double doors.

He pointed as he walked, indicating the dining room, the library, the reception room, and others, each sounding stuffier than the last and all marked by polished oak double doors.

Hannah paused a few doors down along the wide, tall corridor with plush red rugs and gilded cornices.

He stood in front of the glass French doors of the balcony, taking up the whole space with his massive frame and heavy trench coat.

She turned it off and eased out of bed, stopping to gaze out the French doors.

The demon closed the door—one of the Immortal comforts, for there were no doors in Hell—and left him to wonder how many men and women Sasha had in the bed before him.

She tossed the covers off, crossing to the French doors.

He heard whispers traded behind doors and cottages and waited.

It stopped, and two footmen went to the doors while two others opened the trunk.

She led them into a courtyard lined on all four sides with lopsided doors.

She pointed to two doors.

The fortress around the courtyard was four stories tall and lined with wooden doors indicating guest rooms.

No strangers were in the house, and the doors were bolted.

Romas had felt no need to explain his insistence of her wearing it, but Evelyn had explained it acted as a visual identifying piece and also happened to open all the doors on the ship.

And if there were more of those monstrous spiders on board, she probably did not want to wander around opening doors at random.

When the doors opened, she realized everything had changed.

Just go four or five doors, and it'll be on your right.

The wide hallways were lit by skylights and lined with inset doors whose access pads glowed to the right of each door.

She ignored the instinct and said, "I want to roam around the main house, but I'm really afraid of opening doors to random rooms and finding, you know, hordes of tarantulas that attack me or angry prisoners of war."

She scoured each side of the hall for signs labeling what doors might lead to what.