English Dictionary

doorstop

名詞

ユーモラス文体 イギリス英語 オーストラリア英語

Any device or object used to halt the motion of a door, as a large or heavy object, a wedge, or some piece of hardware fixed to the floor, door or wall.

日本語の意味

ドアの開きを防ぐために用いられる装置。例えば、大きく重い物体、くさび、または床やドア、壁に固定されたハードウェアとして使用される。

I placed a heavy doorstop under the office door to keep it from slamming during the meeting.

会議中にドアがバタンと閉まらないように、オフィスのドアの下に重いドアストッパーを置きました。

意味（1）

Any device or object used to halt the motion of a door, as a large or heavy object, a wedge, or some piece of hardware fixed to the floor, door or wall.

意味（2）

(humorous) A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.

Meanwhile, all the Democrats had to put forward that year was a doorstop called Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill.

意味（3）

(Britain) (in error for doorstep) A thick sandwich.

意味（4）

(Australia) An interview with a politician or other public figure (apparently informal or spontaneous but often planned), as they enter or leave a building.

And television dominates this place — just look at Beazley tossing around cans of tomato soup at his morning doorstops outside Parliament House.

doorstops （ plural ）