What's the difference between door and window?

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.

Window


Definition:

  • (n.) An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure.
  • (n.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
  • (n.) A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with windows.
  • (v. t.) To place at or in a window.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An argon laser beam was used to irradiate the round window in 17 guinea pigs.
  • (2) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
  • (3) Implantation is dependent on embryonic age and is independent of endometrial maturation within this window.
  • (4) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
  • (5) I have to do my best.” The Leeds sporting director Nicola Salerno told the news conference that it was unlikely there would be new permanent signings in the January transfer window, but that there would be the possibility for loan deals.
  • (6) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
  • (7) The narrow latency window contained significantly more responses than could be explained by the spontaneous activity rate, but this was not true for the added time permitted by the broad window.
  • (8) 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).
  • (9) A wide window setting permits both pleura and lung parenchyma to be examined simultaneously.
  • (10) This resulted in greater uniformity of abrasion over the enamel surface within the biopsy window area and better operator handling characteristics.
  • (11) "The problem in the community is that the elderly who live on their own on ground floors are frightened to open the windows because of vandalism and burglary," he says.
  • (12) To assess the window of implantation, same age embryos were transferred onto endometrium of different maturational stages.
  • (13) Simultaneously, reactivity of pial arteriole was observed and its diameter was measured through the cranial window using intravital microscope and width analyzer.
  • (14) In 1995, Bill Gates, founder and CEO at Microsoft, reportedly paid The Rolling Stones $3m (£1.9m) for the rights to use Start Me Up to launch Windows 95.
  • (15) First, the induction and synthesis of specific proteins after brain cell injury provide a window through which insight on the regulation of gene expression in pathological tissue can be obtained.
  • (16) Peculiarities of the central area EEG have been exhibited in all the age groups, and it has been assumed that the central parts of the cortex of a suckling infant are a kind of "window" into the subcortical parts.
  • (17) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
  • (18) Many of the windows in the road shattered.” This was France’s – and western Europe’s – first ever female suicide bombing.
  • (19) These include examination of blood films, which may prove helpful in the diagnosis of Chediak-Higashi syndrome and specific granule deficiency; the Rebuck skin window test, which estimates chemotactic defects; the NBT test, which screens for chronic granulomatous disease patients; and peroxidase staining of the blood film in order to estimate the content of myeloperoxidase, when myeloperoxidase deficiency is suspected.
  • (20) She told Time magazine that “doors and windows were flying” after the blast.