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# door

«door» in Mova's school dictionary: **a part of a wall that opens and closes so people can go…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (door, doors)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A door is a part of a wall that opens and closes so people can go in and out of a room, house or car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/door/#m1)

2) A door is also a small hinged part of a cupboard, oven or fridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/door/#m2)

3) «Next door» means in the house beside yours; «door to door» means from one house to the next or all the way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/door/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a thing counted in a building, car or cupboard; doors per room or car is a rate. Safety: fire doors, keep doors closed in a fire, do not open the door to strangers. Everyday life: knock on the door, shut the door, the front door, the back door. In stories: a secret door, a door to another world. Phrases: front door, next door, door to door, open the door, shut the door, at the door, out of doors (outside).

### examples

- A car has 4 doors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/door/#x1)
- Each room has 1 door and 2 windows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/door/#x2)
- The school has 3 floors with 10 doors on each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/door/#x3)
- How many doors do 5 cars have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/door/#x4)
- Please close the door quietly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/door/#x5)
- Someone is knocking at the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/door/#x6)
- Our neighbours next door have a trampoline. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/door/#x7)
- In a fire, close the door behind you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/door/#x8)
- Do not open the door to strangers when you are home alone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/door/#x9)
- At midnight the cottage door opened. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/door/#x10)

### note

Countable: a door, doors. «Indoors» means inside, «outdoors» or «out of doors» means outside. A counted thing; «per car» or «on each floor» is a rate. No clue by itself. Trap: some cars have 2 doors and some have 4 or 5 (with the boot); read the problem.

### In the corpora

- [Sometimes grown-ups close a door, lower their voices or spell out words so children won't understand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/0/)
- [A closed kitchen door and low voices mean grown-ups are discussing something they are not ready to share.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/9/)
- [Listening at the door usually gives you only scary half-pieces; asking «Is everything OK?» later works much better.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/10/)
- [Liking or disliking a purple door is an opinion, not news; sneering at people for it is unkind.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/17/)
- [The hall is long and low, lit by a row of lamps hanging from the roof, with locked doors all round.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «door» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/door/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.