Door vs. Embrasure

Doornoun

A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed, and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.

Doornoun

Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.

Doornoun

(immigration) An entry point.

Doornoun

(figurative) A means of approach or access.

Doornoun

(figurative) A barrier.

Doornoun

A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.

Doorverb

To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

Doornoun

An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.

Doornoun

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.

Doornoun

Passage; means of approach or access.

Doornoun

An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.

Doornoun

a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle;

Doornoun

the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close;

Doornoun

anything providing a means of access (or escape);

Doornoun

a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road);

Doornoun

a room that is entered via a door;

Doornoun

a hinged, sliding, or revolving barrier at the entrance to a building, room, or vehicle, or in the framework of a cupboard

Doornoun

a doorway

Doornoun

used to refer to the distance from one building in a row to another

Door

A door is a hinged or otherwise movable barrier that allows ingress into and egress from an enclosure. The created opening in the wall is a doorway or portal.

Embrasurenoun

Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement.

Embrasurenoun

The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.

Embrasurenoun

(obsolete) An embrace.

Embrasurenoun

An embrace.

Embrasurenoun

A splay of a door or window.

Embrasurenoun

An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See Illust. of Casemate.

Embrasurenoun

an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through

Embrasure

An embrasure is the opening in a battlement between the two raised solid portions, referred to as crenel or crenelle in a space hollowed out throughout the thickness of a wall by the establishment of a bay. This term designates the internal part of this space, relative to the closing device, door or window.