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ajar

/uh-jahr/US // əˈdʒɑr //UK // (əˈdʒɑː) //

拱桥,拱门,拱顶,拱形

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : neither entirely open nor entirely shut; partly open: The door was ajar.

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Examples

  • When the police officers arrived minutes later, they pushed the door ajar and found Trawick, a personal trainer and dancer, standing near his stove, holding the knife and stick.

  • The evidence suggested that the killer or killers had probably entered the building through the back door, which had been found ajar.

  • Despite the high drama of shutting down news, Facebook still has sizable payment offers on publishers’ tables and there they remain with doors ajar.

  • Every day, we are all forced to recalculate the wisdom of reentering a world that is, if far from completely reopened, at least left cautiously ajar.

  • A guard is manning the door, which is always kept ajar so she can be monitored.

  • Her door stands ajar, halving the room with a beam of light.

  • By the time the No Smoking sign flashes off, both of the Allmans are fast asleep, their mouths characteristically ajar.

  • An “exit” door left ajar welcomed leering lingerers backstage.

  • Postscript: According to his Instagram and Facebook feed, Ajar is still living large.

  • It was ajar, and Kerry, taking an electric torch from his overall pocket, flashed the light upon the name-plate.

  • Edna had discovered it accidentally one day when the high-board gate stood ajar.

  • He and Queeker stood in the passage and saw the bed, the invalid, and the watcher through an inner door which stood ajar.

  • I went to the stranger's room, and listened at his door, which was slightly ajar.

  • With our door ajar we watched the ghastly struggle between the faithful mongrel and the assassin.