DOORとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English dore, dor, from 古期英語 duru (“door”), dor (“gate”), from Proto-West Germanic *dur, from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr, from *dʰwer- (“doorway, door, gate”).

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: dô, IPA^(key): /dɔː/
• (General American) enPR: dôr, IPA^(key): /doɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: dōrʹ, IPA^(key): /do(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /doə/
• (non-rhotic, dough-door merger, AAVE) IPA^(key): /doʊ/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophone: d'or
• Homophone: daw (non-rhotic with caught-court merger (most of England, Australia, New York))
• Homophone: dour (cure-force merger; one pronunciation)
• Homophone: dough (non-rhotic with dough-door merger (AAVE, non-rhotic Southern 米国発音))

名詞

door (複数形 doors)

1. A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. It may have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold it closed, and a lock that ensures it cannot be opened without a key.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     ‘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.’

   I knocked on the vice president's door

2. Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.

   the 24 doors in an Advent calendar

3. (immigration) An entry point.
4. (figurative) A means of approach or access.

   Learning is the door to wisdom.

5. (figurative) A possibility.

   to leave the door open

   all doors are open to somebody

6. (figurative) A barrier.

   Keep a door on your anger.

7. (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
8. The proceeds from entrance fees and/or ticket sales at a venue such as a bar or nightclub, especially in relation to portion paid to the entertainers.

   The bar owner gives each band a percentage of the door and charges customers more to get in.

下位語

• front door
• plantation door
• sliding door

Meronyms

• handle
• latch
• lock

派生語

派生した語

• Sranan Tongo: doro

参考

• gate

動詞

door (三人称単数 現在形 doors, 現在分詞 dooring, 過去形および過去分詞形 doored)

2. (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
   • 2018 February 6, Helen Pidd, “I got ‘doored’ while undertaking on my bike. Was it my fault?”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Kerr has acted for numerous clients who have been doored, including one man knocked off his bike and on to spiked railings, and another who ended up hitting a tree.

アナグラム

• Rood, odor, ordo, rood