doorstop
门挡,门挡板,门槛,门禁
Definitions
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- : a device for holding a door open, as a wedge or small weight.
- : Also called slamming stile, stop. a strip or projecting surface against which the door closes.
- : a device for preventing a door from striking a wall or an object on a wall, as a small rubber-covered projection.
Examples
Deep down, I must still be a kid, because I couldn’t stop eating this doorstop of a sandwich, featuring two thick slices of toasted brioche that conceal a filling of spicy pork sausage, prosciutto cotto, grana and mozzarella.
It takes less than a minute to install, and like a doorstop, it’s easy to uninstall under emergency conditions.
This was the premise of the American systems novel, which reached its turn-of-the-century apogee in the form of panoramic doorstops by Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace.
Former journalist John Ghazvinian steps into the charged arena with a doorstop of a book that promises to answer the question.
The chair in this collection has a doorstop on one foot—in one way it is very generic, but it also has this surrealist take on it.
Occasionally a pamphlet for a salsa class might be tossed on a doorstop or stuck on a pole near a bus stop.
Here are some of the juiciest bits of the 652-page doorstop.
Beck proudly announces that he now uses a bust of TR as a doorstop in a symbolic show of his displeasure.
Then he put it on the rim of the chest in such a position that if the lid were to fall it would be stopped by the doorstop.
Anne hugged Patricia, and departed for her own room, stumbling over the doorstop as she went out.
He glanced around the room, and his eyes fell on a heavy stone doorstop.