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单词 a door
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a dooradv.

Brit. /ə ˈdɔː/, U.S. /ə ˈdɔr/, Caribbean English /a ˈdoː(r)/
Forms: 1500s a dore, 1500s– a door, 1600s a' doore.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: a prep.2, door n.
Etymology: Probably partly < at door at door n. Phrases 1, with reduction of the first element, and partly < a prep.2 + door n. (compare a- prefix4). Compare slightly earlier adoors adv. With out a door compare earlier out at door at door n. Phrases 1 and later out of door adv. With in a door compare in at door at door n. Phrases 1.
Now Caribbean (rare).
At the door; of the door. Only with preceding adverb, as in a door, out a door, etc. Cf. adoors adv., at door at door n. Phrases 1, out of door adv.
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1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere vii. p. ccccviii He goeth not onys out a dore therfore, but saye what he lyste.
1588 in W. H. Hale Ser. Precedents & Proc. Criminal Causes (1847) 195 He resysting them, and keeping them out adoor.
1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 38 Out a' doore I'm hurld.
1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses 51 She saw him coming in a door.
1735 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 728/2 Let us now go in a door, And see what to ask for more.
1899 M. McTurk Ess. & Fables Creoles Brit. Guiana (ed. 3) 9 De cause of justice can' be 'topt, is not to be himpede, Yack the Manaja out a door, an' leh the 'quest proceed.
1907 W. Jekyll Jamaican Song & Story 138 An' the Jar t'row him outside a door.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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