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单词 side door
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side doorn.adj.

Brit. /ˌsʌɪ(d) ˈdɔː/, U.S. /ˈsaɪ(d) ˌdɔr/
Forms: see side n.1 and door n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: side n.1, door n.
Etymology: < side n.1 + door n.Compare West Frisian sijddoor, Middle Dutch sidedore (Dutch zijdeur), German Seitentür.
A. n.
1. A door in or at the side of a building, enclosure, vehicle, etc.; (also) a door on one side of, or additional to, a main door.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > other types of door
hall-doorc1275
falling doorc1300
stable doorc1330
vice-door1354
hecka1400
lodge-doorc1400
street door1465
gate-doora1500
portal1516
backdoor1530
portal door1532
side door1535
by-door1542
outer door1548
postern door1551
house door1565
fore-door1581
way-door1597
leaf door1600
folding door1611
clap-door1625
balcony-door1635
out-door1646
anteportc1660
screen door1668
frontish-door1703
posticum1704
side entrance1724
sash-door1726
Venetian door1731
oak1780
jib-door1800
trellis?c1800
sporting door1824
ledge-door1825
through door1827
bivalves1832
swing-door1833
tradesmen's entrance1838
ledged door1851
tradesmen's door?1851
fire door1876
storm door1878
shoji1880
fire door1889
Dutch door1890
patio door1900
stable door1900
ledge(d) and brace(d) door1901
suicide door1925
louvre door1953
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings vi. 34 Ether dore had two syde dores one hanginge to another.
1611 Bible (King James) Susanna 18 They..went out themselues at priuie doors [margin. Or, side doores] to fetch the things. View more context for this quotation
1679 W. Lodge tr. G. Barri Painters Voy. Italy 76 Over a side Door of the Church there is a most famous Square of the Invention of the Cross.
1707 Daily Courant 28 Feb. (advt.) The side Door of a Chariot, Painted Coffee Colour.
1753 D. Henry Hist. Descr. St. Paul’s Cathedral 27 At St. Paul's..there are three Doors, the two side Doors for daily Use, and the middle for Solemnities.
1830 W. Scott Monastery (new ed.) II. vii. 93 Christie of the Clinthill..emerged at that instant from the side-door under the archway.
1875 J. W. White Oedipus Tyrannus 140 (note) Both the personal attendants of Œdipus here leave the stage through the side door in the eastern parascenium.
1894 Outing 24 230/2 In a..fruitless search for some side-door entrance to a shop or restaurant.
1930 Oxf. Ann. Girls 84/1 ‘Oh! Somebody's coming!’.. ‘Bunk out through the side door,’ said Rita, pushing her towards it.
1980 Times 28 May 3/1 BL's long-awaited new small car, the Mini Metro,..is a front-wheel-drive model with two side doors and a tailgate.
2013 New Yorker 30 Sept. 37/2 He slipped through the kitchen..and entered the club by a side door.
2. figurative. An indirect, unofficial, or surreptitious means of accessing or achieving something. Chiefly in by (also through) a side door. Cf. backdoor n. 2.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [noun] > approach
backstairs1641
postern1642
side door1852
back channel1968
1852 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 20 Feb. 4/6 That part of the Bill which relates to the change in the oaths to be taken by members, breaking down another Protestant principle, and letting in the Jews by a side door, would of course be scouted under any circumstances.
1885 ‘A Tory Democrat’ Scotl. at Gen. Election 8 He starts as an Orangeman, or a strong Churchman,..and reaches Toryism, as it were, by a side-door.
1921 Pacific Rev. Sept. 178 Life is full of these moral side doors.
1965 New Statesman 30 Apr. 676/1 The proposed conference on Cambodia—an attempt to settle Vietnam through a side-door—may prove abortive.
1992 C. C. Carvounis & B. Z. Carvounis U.S. Trade & Investm. Lat. Amer. iv. 85 The gains the Japanese would realize by having this ‘side-door’ to American markets.
2013 Independent (Nexis) 22 May 46 Here, at last, the spirit of adventure seems to have sneaked in by a side door.
B. adj. (attributive). Usually hyphenated.
Achieved, acquired, etc., by indirect or surreptitious means; esp. (of an arrangement or agreement) unofficial, ‘shady’.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adjective] > accomplished by stealth
stolenc1400
secret1548
clandestine1566
stealed1577
backdoor1581
underhand1592
surreptitial1602
surreptitious?1615
furtive1628
surreptious1630
by1633
surreptive1633
subreptitious1641
surreptitious1645
postern1648
backstairs1663
smuggled1707
underneath1747
underhanded1806
hidlingsa1810
hole-and-corner1835
side door1862
under-cover1933
under the table1938
crafty1946
1862 Daily Commerc. Reg. (Sandusky, Ohio) 10 Feb. We do not see in it [sc. the printing of special dispatches from Washington]..any public spirited enterprise, but the [sic] rather an attempted side door arrangement, calculated in the end both to damage the papers engaged in it and the whole newspaper press.
1904 Implement Age 1 Dec. 22/2 Scalping merchants in their town were getting ‘side door’ twine at cut prices from the same mills.
1930 Times 21 Mar. 15/5 We maintain that these ‘side door’ credits are endangering our chances of securing recognition of our bonds.
1962 El Paso (Texas) Herald-Post 14 May a3/2 Some sort of side-door deal was made between the influential conservative and liberal delegates.
2001 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 18 June 7 The sport's leadership also thought it was possible to do a tatty side-door deal with the Government before an election, free from political scrutiny.

Compounds

side-door Pullman n. North American slang (among hobos) an enclosed railway freight car with sliding doors on the sides; a boxcar. [ < side door n. + Pullman n., with ironic allusion to the level of comfort afforded by such wagons when used as an illicit form of passenger transport or shelter.]
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > closed
boxcar1831
van1837
house car1838
side-door Pullman1887
1887 M. Roberts Western Avernus xvii. 237 When the engine..started out, I lighted a match and took a look at my..travelling carriage, or ‘side-door Pullman’, as the ‘tramps’..facetiously call them.
1918 R. W. Lardner Treat 'em Rough 10 If they didn't have all the luck in the world they would be rideing [sic] around the country in a side door Pullman with all their baggage on.
1976 S. Hayden Voyage 227 Light out for..the freight yards in search of a side-door pullman.
2000 Toronto Star (Nexis) 18 Aug. This is the hobo ‘jungle’, the name the men who ride the ‘sidedoor Pullmans’ (box cars) give to their gathering places, usually near railway tracks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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