(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.
Lid
Definition:
(n.) That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.
(n.) The cover of the eye; an eyelid.
(n.) The cover of the spore cases of mosses.
(n.) A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian Eucalypti.
(n.) The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Epicanthal folds were present in 46%, mongoloid slanting of the lids in 72% of cases.
(2) It appears that the effects of monocular lid suture upon MIN are in most respects similar to the effects of monocular lid suture previously reported for the A laminae.
(3) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(4) Lateral upper and lower lid lysis allows the needed extended period of healing.
(5) Aponeurotic ptosis repair may be performed under local anesthesia, and past reports have suggested that operative lid position may be used to predict the final result.
(6) Cryotherapy with high-flow nitrous oxide was applied to the lid margin for 45 seconds in a freeze-thaw-freeze cycle.
(7) In fact, in some patients the lower-lid wrinkling appears far worse after fat removal.
(8) The reports of rod-dominated psychophysical spectral sensitivity from the deprived eye of monocularly lid-sutured (MD) monkeys are intriguing but difficult to reconcile with the absence of any reported deprivation effects in retina.
(9) The lid is fiddly to fit on to the cup, and smells so strongly of silicone it almost entirely ruins the taste of the coffee if you don’t remove it.
(10) In neurological diseases the hyposensitivity could include the cornea, conjunctiva and lid margin.
(11) The advances in lid and orbital surgery are due to the improvements made in diagnostic equipment and to technical refinements.
(12) Maybe there was a wish to go for these stronger story formulations, more extreme situations to try to get the energy up to comfortably blow the lid off.” Miller pointed out to Franzen that he has developed something of a reputation as a misanthrope.
(13) The volumetric determination of all those tissues relevant for Opthalmodynamography (ODG) showed the lids to contribute about a quarter to the total volume; another quarter each was due to the optic bulb including optic fascicel, external bulbar musculature and orbital fat.
(14) The occurrence of squamous cell carcinoma of the lid is reviewed with emphasis upon the incidence, clinical presentation, pathophysiology and methods of treatment.
(15) Surgical techniques are based upon removal of fat from each of the two or three so-called compartments within the upper or lower lid.
(16) Several procedures have been developed to restore closure of the paralyzed upper eyelid (implantation of gold weights or open wire springs) or to correct lower lid lagophthalmos and ectropion (lower lid tightening with a Bick procedure or insertion of a closed eyelid spring).
(17) Signs include lid edema, periauricular lymphadenopathy, conjunctival injection, follicular reaction, and typically subconjunctival hemorrhages.
(18) The German journalist whose documentary lifted the lid on claims of systematic doping in Russian athletics has said he is prepared to make a follow-up after receiving more evidence.
(19) She will outline her case in a speech at the Oxford media conference, which will be the first time Labour has lifted the lid on the all-party talks on Leveson.
(20) By any measure Poland’s recent history is one of triumph It was a war that was as much personal as it was political, with enmities that had been stewing for a decade erupting as the lid of communist rule was lifted.