What's the difference between door and heck?

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.

Heck


Definition:

  • (n.) The bolt or latch of a door.
  • (n.) A rack for cattle to feed at.
  • (n.) A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door.
  • (n.) A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
  • (n.) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
  • (n.) A bend or winding of a stream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It might not work, heck it probably won’t work, but something had to change in the Knicks organization.
  • (2) But it seems a heck of a lot of money for just 54 days in post and after getting things so badly wrong."
  • (3) This could prevent a person from taking over if a car loses control, making it “even more important that the details of any accidents be made public so people know what the heck’s going on”.
  • (4) "It's a heck of a lot of money," said the Vermont senator, Bernie Sanders, who is an independent.
  • (5) Guardian staff JamieJackson 22 April 2014 10:48am That's what we're told on a consistent basis: that there is a heck of amount of money available if needed.
  • (6) "Heck, you folks even get Fozzie's jokes, but it was the great impresario Lord Lew Grade who gave us our first big break ... and we're forever grateful to him and to everyone here in England."
  • (7) Zito is looking for that double play to get the heck out of the inning, but is gifted a pop to left that shortstop Brandon Crawford is out to collect.
  • (8) Heck, maybe these early season struggles were the result of the Curse of the Orange Uniforms .
  • (9) An epizootic of focal epithelial hyperplasia (FEH) or Morbus Heck in a pygmy chimpanzee (Pan paniscus) colony is described.
  • (10) Game five's mean a heck of a lot in North American series, and this one is no different.
  • (11) If a misfiring Manchester City can be a goal away from the final, why the heck not?
  • (12) Better coordination of all teacher training routes will have to come, with some sort of middle tier at a local level to ensure supply and quality.” Husbands agrees: “You could get a heck of a long way if you went down the route of school-university alliances.
  • (13) Updated at 1.24am GMT 1.16am GMT Predictions please That is one heck of an act to follow, let me tell ya.
  • (14) Its amino acid composition and N-terminal sequence agree well with results derived from the sequence of the VRS gene [Heck, J.D., & Hatfield, G.W.
  • (15) The disorders mentioned include: eczematous processes, rosacea-like dermatitis, steroid rosacea, acne, especially the diagnosis and therapy of cystic acne, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, viral infection (Heck's disease) and circumscribed scleroderma versus systemic sclerosis and hemiatrophy of the face.
  • (16) Heck, if the Giants could do it a year ago, why not these Dodgers, who have even better pitching than San Francisco did, not to mention lineup that could wipe the floor with Buster Posey and his buddies on the Bay.
  • (17) The occurrence of focal epithelial hyperplasia (Heck's Disease) in a 12-year-old Mexican-American female is presented.
  • (18) Heck, Davidson even won Edinburgh Central, a constituency where previously the Tory candidate had come fourth.
  • (19) Maybe she lingered over the first chart in the book: That's a heck of a chart.
  • (20) You don't have to approve the way he went about it, heck this writer doesn't approve of the way he went about it, but LeBron James has won his first ring, and there's a good chance it's not going to be his last.