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the only invention that means both keep out and come in, depending on your mood
means a hinged, sliding, or swinging panel that opens and closes an entrance to a room, building, or vehicle.
from From Old English 'duru' (the door of a house) and 'dor' (a larger gate), both tracing back to Proto-Germanic '*dur-' and ultimately the Proto-Indo-European root '*dhwer-', meaning a doorway or gate. The same ancient root branched out across languages — it's a cousin of Latin 'foris' (door, source of 'forum,' literally the space outside the door) and Greek 'thura.' For thousands of years, the word has marked the threshold between in and out.
- revolving origin
- invented by a man who hated holding doors
- push pull
- badly designed doors are literally called Norman doors
- red doors
- once signaled paid-off mortgages and safe haven
- hidden math
- hinges place handles far for less effort
- barn doors
- slide because swinging ones blocked precious space
door of no return — slave fortress exit at elmina castle, ghana, final passage before transatlantic crossing
tom's diner door — real 1950s railroad car diner in hackensack, new jersey, immortalized in suzanne vega's 1987 song