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-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwṓr, from *dʰwer- (“doorway, door, gate”). Cognate with Scots door (“door”), Saterland Frisian Doore (“door”), West Frisian doar (“door”), Dutch deur (“door”), German Low German Door, Döör (“door”), German Tür (“door”), Tor (“gate”), Danish and Norwegian dør (“door”), Icelandic dyr (“door”), Latin foris and foras, Ancient Greek θύρα (thúra), Albanian derë pl. dyer, Central Kurdish دەرگە‎ (derge), derî, Persian در‎ (dar), Russian дверь (dverʹ), Hindi द्वार (dvār) / دوار‎ (dvār), Armenian դուռ (duṙ), Irish doras, Lithuanian durys.

A door

A wooden door

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: dô, IPA^(key): /dɔː/
• (General American) enPR: dôr, IPA^(key): /dɔɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: dōrʹ, IPA^(key): /do(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /doə/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)
• 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 accents))
• 韻: -ʊə(ɹ)

名詞

door (複数形 doors)

1. 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.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     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. (figuratively) A means of approach or access.

   Learning is the door to wisdom.

5. (figuratively) A barrier.

   Keep a door on your anger.

6. (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.

下位語

• front door
• sliding door

Meronyms

• handle
• latch
• lock

派生語

関連する語

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)

1. (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

アナグラム

• Rood, odor, ordo, rood