back door backdoor | a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position), he got his job through the back door |
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 |
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 |
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 door front entrance | exterior door (at the entrance) at the front of a building |
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 |
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) |
wide-angle lens fisheye lens | a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length), produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery |
wide area network WAN | a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network |
widebody aircraft wide-body aircraft wide-body twin-aisle airplane | a commercial airliner with two aisles |
wide screen | a projection screen that is much wider than it is high |
wide wale | corduroy with wide ribs |
World Wide Web WWW web | computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol |
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 |
back door backdoor | an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains |
open-door policy open door | the policy of granting equal trade opportunities to all countries |
revolving door | an organization or institution with a high rate of turnover of personnel or membership |
doorkeeper doorman door guard hall porter porter gatekeeper ostiary | someone who guards an entrance |
door prize | tickets are passed out at the entrance to a dance or party or other social function and a prize is awarded to the holder of the winning ticket |
show the door | ask to leave, I was shown the door when I asked for a raise |
wide wide of the mark | not on target, the kick was wide, the arrow was wide of the mark, a claim that was wide of the truth |
heads-up wide-awake | fully alert and watchful, played heads-up ball |
wide wide-cut full | having ample fabric, the current taste for wide trousers, a full skirt |
unsleeping wide-awake | fully awake, the unsleeping city, so excited she was wide-awake all night |
a across-the-board all-embracing all-encompassing all-inclusive blanket(a) broad encompassing extensive panoptic wide | broad in scope or content, across-the-board pay increases, an all-embracing definition, blanket sanctions against human-rights violators, an invention with broad applications, a panoptic study of Soviet nationality- T.G.Winner, granted him wide powers |