Door vs Snib - What's the difference?
door | snib |
A that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
* , chapter=5
, title= * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
A non-physical into the next world, a particular feeling, a company, etc.
(computing, dated) A . See (BBS door).
(Scotland) A latch or fastening for a door, window etc.
*2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 99:
*:He did not like me coming in except if I was going to bed. I heard him saying to my maw about a snib for the door.
(obsolete) A reprimand; a snub.
(Scotland) To latch (a door, window etc.).
*1890 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Sign of the Four , VI:
*:‘Window is snibbed on the inner side. Frame-work is solid. No hinges at the side. Let us open it.’
As nouns the difference between door and snib
is that door is door while snib is (scotland) a latch or fastening for a door, window etc.As a verb snib is
(scotland) to latch (a door, window etc).door
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(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly,
citation, passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}
Meronyms
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* at death's door * darken someone's door * door brake * doorgame * door prize * doorstep * front door * get one's foot in the door * show somebody the door * shut the door on * sliding door * stage-door Johnny * up and over door *See also
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(en noun)- (Marston)