Door vs. Embrasure — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Door and Embrasure
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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.
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.
Door
A hinged, sliding, or revolving barrier at the entrance to a building, room, or vehicle, or in the framework of a cupboard
She looked for her key and opened the door
That audition was the door to all my future successes
Embrasure
An opening in a thick wall for a door or window, especially one with sides angled so that the opening is larger on the inside of the wall than on the outside.
Door
A movable structure used to close off an entrance, typically consisting of a panel that swings on hinges or that slides or rotates.
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Embrasure
A flared opening for a gun in a wall or parapet.
Door
A similar part on a piece of furniture or a vehicle.
Embrasure
Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement; an opening in a wall or parapet through which ordnance can be fired.
Door
A doorway.
Embrasure
(figurative) Any small protected space.
Door
The room or building to which a door belongs:They live three doors down the hall.
Embrasure
The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.
Door
A means of approach or access:looking for the door to success.
Embrasure
(obsolete) An embrace.
Door
(Slang)To strike (a passing bicyclist, for example) by suddenly opening a vehicular door.
Embrasure
An embrace.
Door
To serve as a doorman or doorwoman of (a nightclub, for example).
Embrasure
A splay of a door or window.
Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure,Sat the lovers.
Door
A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically 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.
I knocked on the vice president's door
Embrasure
An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See Illust. of Casemate.
Door
Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
The 24 doors in an Advent calendar
Embrasure
An opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through
Door
(immigration) An entry point.
Door
(figurative) A means of approach or access.
Learning is the door to wisdom.
Door
(figurative) A possibility.
To leave the door open
All doors are open to somebody
Door
(figurative) A barrier.
Keep a door on your anger.
Door
A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
Door
The proceeds from entrance fees and/or ticket sales at a venue such as a bar or nightclub, especially in relation to portion paid to the entertainers. "The bar owner gives each band a percentage of the door and charges customers more to get in"
Door
To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
Door
An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.
To the same end, men several paths may tread,As many doors into one temple lead.
Door
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.
At last he came unto an iron doorThat fast was locked.
Door
Passage; means of approach or access.
I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved.
Door
An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.
Martin's office is now the second door in the street.
A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult.
His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors.
If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door.
Door
A swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle;
He knocked on the door
He slammed the door as he left
Door
The entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close;
He stuck his head in the doorway
Door
Anything providing a means of access (or escape);
We closed the door to Haitian immigrants
Education is the door to success
Door
A structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road);
The office next door
They live two doors up the street from us
Door
A room that is entered via a door;
His office is the third door down the hall on the left
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