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Meaning of द्वार in English

  • An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.
  • 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.
  • Passage; means of approach or access.
  • An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.
  • The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.
  • A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.
  • An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.
  • A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
  • The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
  • In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
  • The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
  • The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
  • To supply with a gate.
  • To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
  • A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
  • Manner; gait.
  • A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.
  • A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.
  • The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
  • Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
  • By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church.
  • The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
  • A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
  • Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery.
  • The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.
  • Fig.: The place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset; as, the threshold of life.

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