(adv.) Slightly turned or opened; as, the door was standing ajar.
(adv.) In a state of discord; out of harmony; as, he is ajar with the world.
Example Sentences:
(1) I felt that theatre was closed, but that when it came to film, the door was very slightly ajar.
(2) Finding the outer door ajar, I pushed it open and stepped out and was struck by a blast of cold air.
(3) Turn the heat down to medium-low and simmer with the lid slightly ajar for at least 45 minutes, until tender but not falling apart.
(4) Signs such as a closed door, door ajar, door half-open or completely open all have different meanings ...
(5) But he appeared to leave the door ajar when he was asked whether his claim that he is "not available" would still apply if the Lisbon treaty is ratified.
(6) alpha 1-Inhibitor 3 was a more complete ring sometimes ajar at one corner.
(7) We try to show the function of pen names for Romain Kacew, who was twice rewarded by the Goncourt prize, under two pseudonyms, Romain Gary, then Emile Ajar.
(8) Davis Cup: Nick Kyrgios virus leaves door ajar for Lleyton Hewitt return Read more Kyrgios has been struck down by a virus while also struggling with a back injury which forced him to withdraw from his semi-final in Dubai last week.
(9) Sterling fell on the foreign exchanges after King's remarks to mark the publication of the Bank's quarterly inflation report were seen as keeping the door ajar for further moves to stimulate growth later in the year.
(10) And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction.
(11) The door was ajar and the blood-soaked walls and floor of the stairwell could be seen.
(12) Zlatan may be pre-demob-happy, a superstar who can see the exit door ajar in the distance.
(13) The door becomes ajar at 0-15 to Djokovic ... and then Wawrinka's serving slams it shut again.
(14) It has pledged to “capture more quickly the value we see” – which usually means running the business harder and ensuring the backdoor is not left ajar for opportunistic bidders.
(15) It should have been game over for City later on but Lewandowki's profligacy left the door ajar for Mancini's players and Balotelli took full advantage to leave the Dortmund players crestfallen at the end.
(16) The door was, however, left ajar for a potential Five deal.
(17) As if the window left ajar had seized on its hinge and couldn't quickly be shut again.
(18) The news prompted alarm in Britain's pension funds, which are concerned that QE pushes down interest rates and reduces the return on their investments, but Threadneedle Street left the door ajar for a further expansion of QE2 should the economy not respond.
(19) What they have discovered is that in many hospitals the door is more than ajar, and in a few it is already wide open.
(20) If that door has been closed, many in Hollywood are suddenly ajar, but for now Abdi remains remarkably level-headed about his newfound success.
Door
Definition:
(n.) An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.
(n.) The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened.
(n.) Passage; means of approach or access.
(n.) An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.
Example Sentences:
(1) We were instantly refused entrance by the heavies at the door.
(2) He can open doors anywhere and they would at least have someone else to blame.
(3) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
(4) Macy’s said more than 15,000 people were lined up outside its flagship New York City store when it opened its doors at 6pm on Thanksgiving.
(5) Clifford began representing the family after the media were "camped out on their door" earlier this year but said that he was not being paid by the family, added that the story should never have been in the paper.
(6) America is made up of immigrants and to shut the doors to others is just ludicrous.
(7) Another source inside the centre, quoted earlier on the Detained Voices blog, said detainees had banged on their doors throughout the lockdown.
(8) It's not good enough for some councils to respond to funding problems by cutting care behind closed doors.
(9) It was also chided for failing to roll out a 2011 pilot scheme to put doors on fridges in its stores.
(10) Back then, before her life took a darker turn, Holiday was able to leave the song, and its politics, at the door on the way out.
(11) Criminal court charges leave me no choice but to resign as a magistrate Read more “This is a terrible piece of legislation introduced through the back door,” he wrote.
(12) One day, out of the blue, there's a knock on the door.
(13) Attach self-adhesive foam strips, or metal strips with brushes or wipers attached, to window, door and loft-hatch frames (if you have sash windows, it's better to ask a professional to do it).
(14) At 7.40am Lord Feldman, the Conservative party chairman, knocked on the front door of No 10.
(15) The case of a 32-year-old man who suffered a blow to his left supraorbital region and eyebrow in an automatic closing door is reported to draw attention to the uncommon but trivial nature of this injury which may result in profound visual loss.
(16) A family who live next door to the Bredon Croft address said Masood used to turn up in Islamic dress and take their neighbours’ children to a mosque, though they did not know which one.
(17) I'm concerned, because it opens the door to all sorts of people with opinions that aren't sensible.
(18) This is done by scoring the septal cartilage in its basal attachment to the maxillary crest, providing a "swinging door" which can be sutured finally as desired.
(19) Matteo Renzi, the Italian leader who has argued it would be a disaster if Britain left the EU, suggested defensiveness about freedom of movement led to nowhere apart from opening the door to “right-wing xenophobia and nationalism” in Europe .
(20) She told Time magazine that “doors and windows were flying” after the blast.