Doorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• doore, durre (obsolete)

語源

From 中期英語 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

enPR: dōr (without the horse–hoarse merger)

• IPA: /do(ː)ɹ/ (rhotic)
• IPA: /doə/ (non-rhotic)
• IPA: /ɖoɾ/ (Indic, rhotic)

enPR: dō (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger but with the dough–door merger)

• Homophone: dough
• IPA: /doʊ/ (African-American Vernacular)
• IPA: /ɖo/ (Indic)

enPR: dôr (rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

• Homophone: d'or
• IPA: /doɹ/ (General American)

enPR: dô (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

• 異形同音異義語: d'or, daw
• IPA: /dɔː/ (Received Pronunciation)
• IPA: /doː/ (Standard Southern British, General Australian, New Zealand)

enPR: do͝or

• IPA: /dʊə/ (Yorkshire)
• Homophone: dour (one pronunciation)

名詞

door (plural doors)

1. (architecture) 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.

   I knocked on the vice president's door.

   • 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: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     ‘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.’

2. (metonymic, chiefly in the plural) A building with a door, especially a house.

   His house is three doors down.

   He went five doors up the road to the bank.

   • 2012 June, Richard D. Kutz, Up the Park, First Books, →ISBN, page 71:

     We walked three doors up the street where we stopped in front 71 Richard D. Kutz.

   • 2015 February 2, Laurel Deedrick-Mayne, A Wake For The Dreamland, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 24:

     "...The storage room is about, oh, three doors down, on the left. I'll point it out as we go by. Pay attention so you know where you have to come back to. Only then it'll be — let me see — about five doors down on your right."

   • 2024 March 26, Julia Dahl, Run You Down: A Novel, Macmillan + ORM, →ISBN:

     A woman pushes a stroller in the direction of the synagogue, and another, just one door down from Pessie's apartment, is unloading groceries from her minivan.

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

   the 24 doors in an Advent calendar

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

   Learning is the door to wisdom.

6. (figurative) A possibility.

   to leave the door open

   all doors are open to somebody

7. (figurative) A barrier.

   Keep a door on your anger.

8. (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
9. 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

• Belizean Creole: doa
• Sranan Tongo: doro

参考

• gate

動詞

door (third-person singular simple present doors, present participle dooring, simple past and past participle doored)

1. (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 Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 August 2023:

     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.

   • 2019 December 15, Ben Spurr, “How an Ontario rule stops 'doored' cyclists from getting drivers' insurance info”, in Toronto Star‎, Toronto, Ont.: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 April 2024:

     He [Pete Karageorgos] said cyclists who are doored are entitled to claim accident benefits from the driver's insurer if they aren't covered by a policy of their own.

   • 2023 December 19, Angie Orellana Hernandez, “Being doored to death is a cyclist's nightmare. How can it be prevented?”, in Los Angeles Times‎, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 April 2024:

     To avoid being doored, cyclists such as Vilain, Davis-Overstreet and Michael Schneider monitor as many telltale signs as possible: shadows, brake lights, the actions of people sitting in the driver's seat.

派生語

アナグラム

• Rood, ordo, oord, rood, O'Dor, odor