What's the difference between doorcase and doorframe?
Doorcase
Definition:
(n.) The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.
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Doorframe
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(1) Because plumbing leaks at the seams, and houses leak at the doorframes, and lie-lows lose air through their valves.
(2) When you visit, act like a suspicious surveyor, looking particularly at the structure (for hairline cracks), the walls (for damp), all windows and doorframes (for water penetration) and check for significant unfinished DIY.
(3) Sukaesih is a diminutive figure, but she points to a ridge on the doorframe about two metres above the threshold.
(4) Us oldyins haven’t done much to put up a fight, so now the younger ones are getting out and doing it for themselves.” He peers round his doorframe at the departing figure of Black, off to “chap” his neighbour’s door.