back door backdoor | a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position), he got his job through the back door |
crawl front crawl Australian crawl | a swimming stroke, arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick |
front-porch campaigning front-porch campaign | a campaign in which the candidate makes speeches but does not travel, William McKinley's dignified front-porch campaign won him the presidency in , her approach was the opposite of a passive front-porch campaign |
trap-door spider | American spider that constructs a silk-lined nest with a hinged lid |
back door backdoor back entrance | an entrance at the rear of a building |
barn door | the large sliding door of a barn |
bi-fold door | an interior door |
car door | the door of a car |
cargo door | door used to load or unload cargo |
chanfron chamfron testiere frontstall front-stall | medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head |
door | a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle, he knocked on the door, he slammed the door as he left |
door | a room that is entered via a door, his office is the third door down the hall on the left |
door | a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road), the office next door, they live two doors up the street from us |
doorway door room access threshold | the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building, the space that a door can close, he stuck his head in the doorway |
double door | two vertical doors that meet in the middle of the door frame when closed |
Dutch door half door | an exterior door divided in two horizontally, either half can be closed or open independently |
exterior door outside door | a doorway that allows entrance to or exit from a building |
fire door | a fireesistant door that can be closed to stop the spread of a fire |
fly fly front | an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth |
folding door accordion door | an interior door that opens by folding back in sections (rather than by swinging on hinges) |
French door | a light door with transparent or glazed panels extending the full length |
front | the side that is seen or that goes first |
front bench | any of the front seats in the House of Commons that are reserved for ministers or former ministers |
front door front entrance | exterior door (at the entrance) at the front of a building |
front porch | a porch for the front door |
front projector | a projector for digital input |
front yard | the yard in front of a house, between the house and the street |
hatchback hatchback door | a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open |
interior door | a door that closes off rooms within a building |
latch door latch | spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key |
living room livingoom sitting room front room parlor parlour | a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax |
revolving door revolver | a door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot, a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings |
screen door screen | a door that consists of a frame holding metallic or plastic netting, used to allow ventilation and to keep insects from entering a building through the open door, he heard the screen slam as she left |
service door service entrance servant's entrance | an entrance intended for the use of servants or for delivery of goods and removal of refuse |
side door side entrance | an exterior door at one side of a building |
sliding door | a door that opens by sliding instead of swinging |
stage door | an entrance to the backstage area of theater, used by performers and other theater personnel |
storm door | an extra outer door for protection against severe weather or winter |
swing door swinging door | a door that swings on a double hinge, opens in either direction |
trap door | a hinged or sliding door in a floor or ceiling |
wicket wicket door wicket gate | small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door) |
door | anything providing a means of access (or escape), we closed the door to Haitian immigrants, education is the door to success |
open door | freedom of access, he maintained an open door for all employees |
front tooth anterior | a tooth situated at the front of the mouth, his malocclusion was caused by malposed anteriors |
front | the outward appearance of a person, he put up a bold front |
back door backdoor | an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains |
front matter prelims | written matter preceding the main text of a book |
open-door policy open door | the policy of granting equal trade opportunities to all countries |
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine DFLP Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine PDFLP | a Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change, in the DFLP took over a schoolhouse and massacred Israeli schoolchildren |
International Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders | a terrorist group organized by Osama bin Laden in that provided an umbrella organization for al-Qaeda and other militant groups in Egypt and Algeria and Pakistan and Bangladesh |