Door
A door is a panel made usually of a hard, impermeable, and hard-to-break substance (such as wood or metal), with or without windows, but sometimes consisting of a hard frame into which glass or screens have been fitted, attached to hinges by which it is attached to a frame that constitutes a space for ingress into or egress from a building, room, or vehicle, such that the panel may be moved in various ways (at angles away from the frame, by sliding on a plane parallel to the frame, by folding in angles on a parallel plane, or by spinning along an axis at the center of the frame) to allow or prevent ingress or egress. In most cases, a door’s interior matches its exterior side but in other cases (e.g., a vehicle door) the two sides are radically different in form to support activities of entering or exiting that differ from one another. Often doors have locking mechanisms to ensure that only the owner or custodian or other persons who have rightful access to a space can open them, and can have knockers or doorbells by which outsiders can announce their presence and summon someone either to open the door for them or give permission to open and enter. Apart from providing access into and out of a space, doors can have the secondary functions of ensuring privacy by preventing unwanted attention from outsiders, of separating areas with different functions, of allowing light to pass into and out of a space, of controlling ventilation or air drafts so that interiors may be more effectively heated or cooled, of dampening noise, and of blocking the spread of fire.
Doors may have aesthetic, symbolic, ritualistic purposes. To be given the key to a door can signify a change in status from outsider to insider. Doors and doorways frequently appear in literature and the arts with metaphorical or allegorical import as a portent of change.
Door (noun)
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.
“I knocked on the vice president’s door”
Door (noun)
Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
“the 24 doors in an Advent calendar”
Door (noun)
An entry point.
Door (noun)
A means of approach or access.
“Learning is the door to wisdom.”
Door (noun)
A barrier.
“Keep a door on your anger.”
Door (noun)
A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
Door (verb)
To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
Hatch (noun)
A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
Hatch (noun)
A trapdoor.
Hatch (noun)
An opening in a pass through.
“The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch.”
Hatch (noun)
A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
Hatch (noun)
An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine.
Hatch (noun)
A gullet.
Hatch (noun)
A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
Hatch (noun)
A floodgate; a sluice gate.
Hatch (noun)
A bedstead.
Hatch (noun)
An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
Hatch (noun)
The act of hatching.
Hatch (noun)
Development; disclosure; discovery.
Hatch (noun)
A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
“These pullets are from an April hatch.”
Hatch (noun)
The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
Hatch (noun)
A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase “hatched, matched, and dispatched.”
Hatch (verb)
To close with a hatch or hatches.
Hatch (verb)
(of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
Hatch (verb)
(of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
Hatch (verb)
To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
Hatch (verb)
To devise.
Hatch (verb)
To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
Hatch (verb)
To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
Door (noun)
a hinged, sliding, or revolving barrier at the entrance to a building, room, or vehicle, or in the framework of a cupboard
“she looked for her key and opened the door”
“that audition was the door to all my future successes”
Door (noun)
a doorway
“she walked through the door”
Door (noun)
used to refer to the distance from one building in a row to another
“he lives just a few doors away from the Strongs”
Hatch (noun)
a door in an aircraft, spacecraft, or submarine.
Hatch (noun)
the rear door of a hatchback car
“a spare wheel mounted on the rear hatch”
Hatch (noun)
short for hatchback
Hatch (noun)
a newly hatched brood
“a hatch of mayflies”
Hatch (verb)
(of an egg) open and produce a young animal
“eggs need to be put in a warm place to hatch”
Hatch (verb)
incubate (an egg).
Hatch (verb)
(of a young bird, fish, or reptile) emerge from its egg
“ten little chicks hatched out”
Hatch (verb)
cause (a young animal) to emerge from its egg
“our penguins were hatched and hand-reared here”
Hatch (verb)
conspire to devise (a plot or plan)
“the little plot that you and Sylvia hatched up last night”
Hatch (verb)
(in fine art and technical drawing) shade (an area) with closely drawn parallel lines
“the unused space has been hatched with lines”