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Doorsill

Definition: Doorsill

Doorsill

Noun

1. The sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offer support when passing through a doorway.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "doorsill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)


Synonyms: Doorsill

Synonyms: doorstep (n), threshold (n). (additional references)

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Use in Literature: Doorsill

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

And Tom a little shamefacedly stepped over the doorsill.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: Doorsill

Language Translations for "doorsill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

küszöb (doorstep, door-step, ground-sill, sill, threshold). (various references)

   

Manx

  

fo-dorrys (sole of door). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oorsillday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Doorsill

Derivations

Words beginning with "doorsill": doorsills. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Doorsill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Deosil, Dobrilla, Durosell. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Doorsill

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-i-l-l-o-o-r-s"

-2 letters: dolors, drills, drolls, drools.

-3 letters: dills, diols, dirls, dolls, dolor, doors, drill, droll, drool, idols, lidos, lords, loris, odors, olios, ordos, rills, roils, rolls, roods, sloid, soldi, soldo, solid.

-4 letters: dill, diol, dirl, doll, dols, door, dors, idol, ills, lido, lids, loos, lord, odor, oils, olds, olio, ordo, rids, rill, rods, roil, roll.

 Words containing the letters "d-i-l-l-o-o-r-s"
 

+1 letter: doorsills.

 

+4 letters: haloperidols, idolatrously, prosodically.

 

+5 letters: hydrocolloids, policyholders.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Doorsill


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 6F 6F 72 73 69 6C 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101111 01101111 01110010 01110011 01101001 01101100 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#111 &#111 &#114 &#115 &#105 &#108 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 006F 0072 0073 0069 006C 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3881818485757878

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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