sliding door

English

Noun

sliding door (plural sliding doors)

1. A door that opens and closes by sliding to the side; sometimes one of a pair.
   • 2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 50:

     Thus, the ScotRail plan was to totally refurbish the trailer vehicles, with new sliding doors and a host of other improvements.

2. (figurative, from the plot of the film 'Sliding Doors') Denotes a crucial decision point at which outcomes diverge depending on which of two courses is followed.

   sliding door(s) moment, sliding door(s) decision

Translations

door

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 推拉門／推拉门 (zh) (tuīlāmén), 推拉门 (zh) (tuīlāmén)

• Danish: skydedør c
• Dutch: schuifdeur (nl)
• Finnish: liukuovi
• French: porte coulissante (fr) f
• German: Schiebetür (de) f
• Japanese: 引き戸 (ひきど, hikido, ひきと, hikito)
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• Korean: 미닫이문 (midajimun), 미닫이 (ko) (midaji)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skyvedør (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: skuvedør f skyvedør f

• Portuguese: porta corrediça f
• Russian: раздвижны́е две́ри f pl (razdvižnýje dvéri)
• Spanish: puerta corredera f, puerta giratoria f
• Swedish: skjutdörr c

See also

• up and over door