(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.
Peephole
Definition:
(n.) A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered.
Example Sentences:
(1) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
(2) David Attenborough: zoos should use peepholes to respect gorillas' privacy Read more Armed police were called to the central London attraction and visitors were evacuated when the alarm was raised following the ape’s bid for freedom on 13 October.
(3) Did he spy on patrons and watch their reactions through a peephole?
(4) Women were forced to wear the burqa, their vision restricted to a small, mesh-covered peephole, and were forbidden to go out to work or indeed to leave the house without being accompanied by a male relative.
(5) The light entering the peephole reaches a maximum when the far-point of the eye is co-incident with the retinoscope and drops when the far-point moves behind or in front of the retinoscope.
(6) In retinoscopy it is either the entrance pupil of the examiner or the peephole of the instrument that plays the role of the knife edge.
(7) He said he was able to get the videos of her by manipulating the hotel door peephole in such a way that he could pull the peephole out and use his mobile phone to shoot videos of her.
(8) Barrett testified on Monday , in videotaped deposition, that he removed the hotel door peepholes and altered them so he could pull them out easily to place his cellphone up to the empty hole and shoot videos.
(9) Yvette Seay said she talked to Thompson through her closed front door and she could see the bloodied woman through the peephole.
(10) This study determined the subjective refractive error in eight pigtailed monkeys by placing lenses of different powers in front of peepholes in a solid wall cage and recording the amount of time each subject used the holes.
(11) When an attorney asked him how he got the idea to shoot videos through the hotel room peepholes, he said: “I don’t know, just a stupid thought.” He was an executive with a Chicago-area insurance company when he shot the footage of Andrews in the Nashville hotel in September of 2008.
(12) A beam splitter, one-power telescope, and erecting mirror form a displaced aerial image of the retinoscope peephole for the observer.
(13) I feel so embarrassed and I am so ashamed.” Barrett pleaded guilty to stalking Andrews, altering hotel room peepholes and taking nude videos of her.
(14) The amount of light entering the peephole of the retinoscope was monitored while accommodation was varied.
(15) Those on it are kept under observation by officers using the peepholes in cell doors.
(16) Seay said she talked to Thompson through her closed front door and she could see the bloodied woman through the peephole.
(17) David Attenborough: zoos should use peepholes to respect gorillas' privacy Read more The foundation, which wants to see zoos phased out, argues that the £5.3m spent on London Zoo’s Gorilla Kingdom would have been better devoted to conservation in the wild.
(18) Jurors will have to determine whether the companies share some of the blame after stalker Michael David Barrett altered a peephole in her hotel room in September 2008 to shoot the secret video footage.
(19) March 1, 2016 Barrett was sentenced to two and a half years in prison after he admitted to stalking Andrews in three different cities, altering hotel room peepholes and shooting nude videos of her in Nashville and Columbus, Ohio.
(20) With identical retinoscopic reflexes observed through the actual peephole and its aerial image, the device can be used to teach basic retinoscopy techniques to new refractionists, or to demonstrate subtle reflexes to more experienced observers.