door

«door» in Mova's school dictionary: a part of a wall that opens and closes so people can go… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (door, doors)

meaning for a pupil

1) A door is a part of a wall that opens and closes so people can go in and out of a room, house or car. tree →

2) A door is also a small hinged part of a cupboard, oven or fridge. tree →

3) «Next door» means in the house beside yours; «door to door» means from one house to the next or all the way. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: a thing counted in a building, car or cupboard; doors per room or car is a rate. Safety: fire doors, keep doors closed in a fire, do not open the door to strangers. Everyday life: knock on the door, shut the door, the front door, the back door. In stories: a secret door, a door to another world. Phrases: front door, next door, door to door, open the door, shut the door, at the door, out of doors (outside).

examples

• A car has 4 doors. tree →
• Each room has 1 door and 2 windows. tree →
• The school has 3 floors with 10 doors on each. tree →
• How many doors do 5 cars have? tree →
• Please close the door quietly. tree →
• Someone is knocking at the door. tree →
• Our neighbours next door have a trampoline. tree →
• In a fire, close the door behind you. tree →
• Do not open the door to strangers when you are home alone. tree →
• At midnight the cottage door opened. tree →

note

Countable: a door, doors. «Indoors» means inside, «outdoors» or «out of doors» means outside. A counted thing; «per car» or «on each floor» is a rate. No clue by itself. Trap: some cars have 2 doors and some have 4 or 5 (with the boot); read the problem.

In the corpora

• Sometimes grown-ups close a door, lower their voices or spell out words so children won't understand.
• A closed kitchen door and low voices mean grown-ups are discussing something they are not ready to share.
• Listening at the door usually gives you only scary half-pieces; asking «Is everything OK?» later works much better.
• Liking or disliking a purple door is an opinion, not news; sneering at people for it is unkind.
• The hall is long and low, lit by a row of lamps hanging from the roof, with locked doors all round.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «door» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.