Out of doors

Definition

door /dↄ:(r)/ n (က) တံခါး။ knock on the door ❍ open/shut/close/lock/bolt the door ❍ answer the door (ie go and open it because sb has knocked on it or rung the bell) ❍ the door-frame ❍ the front/back door (ie the entrance at the front/back of a building). ❍ a fourdoor saloon car. (ခ) တံခါးဝ။ တံခါးေပါက္။ ဝင္ေပါက္။ I'll meet you at the theatre door. (ဂ) … အိမ္ျခာ။ … အိမ္ေက်ာ္။ (ႏွစ္အိမ္ သံုးအိမ္ျခာ/ ေက်ာ္)။ the family that lives three doors (up/down/along) from us ❍ Our other branch is just a few doors down the road. ❏ be on the door ( infml ) [ IDM ] တံခါးဝတြင္ တာဝန္က် သည္။ ကပြဲ၊ ကလပ္စသည္တြင္ တံခါးဝ၌ လက္မွတ္သိမ္းသည္။ ❏ close/shut the door on sth [ IDM ] (လမ္းစ) ပိတ္ သည္။ အဟန္႔အတားျပဳသည္။ She was careful not to close the door on the possibility of further talks. ❏ door-keeper n တံခါးမႉး။ တံခါးေစာင့္။ ❏ (from) door to door [ IDM ] တစ္အိမ္ဝင္တစ္အိမ္ထြက္။ အိမ္ေပါက္ေစ့။ တစ္အိမ္တက္ဆင္း။ The journey takes about an hour, door to door. ❍ He went from door to door, selling encyclopedias. ❍ a door-to-door salesman. ❏ (open) the door to sth [ IDM ] လမ္းဖြင့္ေပးသည္။ The agreement will open the door to greatly increased international trade. ❍ Our courses are the door to success in English. ❏ lay sth at sb's door [ IDM ] ေခါင္းေပၚ အျပစ္ပံုခ်သည္။ The blame for the disaster has been laid firmly at the government's door. ❏ leave the door open [ IDM ] လမ္းဖြင့္ေပးထားသည္။ တံခါးဖြင့္ထားသည္။ ❏ out of doors [ IDM ] လဟာျပင္။ အျပင္။ eat out of doors ❍ You should spend more time out of doors in the fresh air. ❏ shut/slam the door in sb's face [ IDM ] အဆက္အဆံ အေျပာအဆိုျဖတ္သည္။

Examples

1. A little cottage with a red door
2. The door creaked slowly open.
3. There was a draught coming from under the door.
4. [open/close/shut the door] : The police officer told him to open the car door.
5. Shut the door – it’s cold in here!
6. [knock on the door] : I knocked on the door and a voice answered ‘Come in’.
7. [be at the door] : There’s someone at the door.
8. [answer/get the door] : Go and answer the door
9. will you?
10. [bang/slam the door] : He ran out
11. slamming the door behind him.
12. [door to/into] : The door to the kitchen was open.
13. [back/front/side etc door] : Be sure to lock the back door when you leave.
14. [bedroom/shed/car etc door] : The bathroom door was shut.
15. A strange figure suddenly came through the door.
16. [come in the door] : I’d just come in the door when the phone rang.
17. [out the door] : Anne got out the door as quickly as she could when she saw him there.
18. [door to] : For these young men
19. a sports career can be a door to fame and fortune.
20. [open doors (for someone)] : This new job has really opened a lot of doors for her.
21. [open the door to something] : This decision could open the door to higher costs.
22. [close/shut the door on something] : The government is reluctant to shut the door on these proposals.
23. Slow down! Julie is working until 5 PM. We don't want to kiss the door.
24. When does the mall close? I need to return my purse and I wouldn't want to kiss the door.