单词 | open door |
释义 | open doorn.adj. A. n. 1. In singular and plural. A free or unrestricted means of access (literal and figurative). to keep open door(s): to provide hospitality to all comers. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > power, right, or opportunity of entrance entryc1330 accessc1384 enteringc1436 entress1447 open door1526 entrance?1552 intercourse1598 open access1602 accession1608 entrée1746 society > leisure > social event > hospitality > show hospitality [verb (intransitive)] > liberal to hold or keep householdc1425 to keep open door(s)1526 to keep (also hold) (an) open house1530 to keep house1530 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rev. iii. 8 Beholde I have set before the an open doore and no man can shutt hit. 1606 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes III. §24 Like some boasting housekeeper, which keepeth open doors for one day with much cheer, & liues staruedly al the yeer after. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 15 An open Door is set before thee, and no man can shut it. View more context for this quotation 1769 Pennsylvania Gaz. 13 Apr. 3/1 During the Sitting of the General Assembly of this Province, last Week, a Motion was made for keeping open Doors during the present Session; which was carried in the Affirmative. 1806 A. Putnam in Danvers Hist. Soc. Coll. (1916) IV. 65 Last evening had open doors in our singing school for spectators. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. xvii. 118 A chief (who must be liberal, keep open doors, and entertain). 1865 J. R. Lowell Ode at Harvard Commem. xi She of the open soul and open door, With room about her hearth for all mankind. 1901 Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. II. at Gladstone, William Ewart His holiness..closed the discussion by intimating..that, for all Englishmen, clergymen and laity alike, the church of Rome kept an open door. 1986 Regional Repertory Rep. Sept. 1 The Traverse aims to be an ‘open door’ for new talent. 1990 Independent (Nexis) 10 Feb. 11 They kept open door at Duart Castle to visiting members of the clan. 2002 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 15 Sept. (Metro section) b1 Free performances at Playhouse Square, an open door at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [etc.]..lured a swarm of people downtown. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > openness or unconcealedness > [adjective] openlyeOE underna900 openeOE utterly12.. unhida1300 perta1325 apert1330 nakeda1382 public1394 patenta1398 foreign?c1400 overtc1400 unrecovered1433 publicalc1450 open-visageda1513 bare1526 uncloaked1539 subject1556 uncovered1577 unmasked1590 facely1593 undisguised1598 female1602 unveiled1606 unshrouded1610 barefaceda1616 disclouded1615 unhiddena1616 broad-faced1643 with full miena1657 undissembled1671 frank1752 bald-faced1761 unconfidential1772 ostensible1782 unglossed1802 undisguising1813 unvisored1827 unconcealed1839 disprivacied1848 disguiseless1850 bald1854 unobscured1879 visible1885 open door1898 above ground1976 1577 Kirkcudbright Town Council Rec. (1939) 36 Ane act to be made anent oppoyn durrs and command to be gewyn be the baillies to caus the saids Elizabeth..do the samyn. 1581 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) III. 221/1 To quhilkes seircheouris oppin durris salbe maid of quhatsumever housis thai cum to serche. a1605 R. Bannatyne Memorials Trans. Scotl. (1836) 71 The laird of Drylay..began to rquyre open doures. 1628 in L. B. Taylor Aberdeen Council Lett. (1942) I. 292 With power..to convocat the inhabitants..in armes to make opin doores and use his maiesties keyes whaianent thir presents sall be..due warrand. 1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) (at cited word) Letters of Open Doors..authorise the messenger to break open the doors of those places in which the goods of the debtor are lodged. 1898 Green's Encycl. Law Scotl. IX. 96 The Debtors (Scotland) Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 114)..has in practice done away with the need for letters of open doors. 3. The (policy of) freedom of admission of foreign imports, immigrants, etc., to a country. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > [noun] > other international policies Anglo-Americanism1841 annexationism1850 open door1898 sanction1919 sacred egoism1928 collective security1934 Westpolitik1934 sanctionism1938 Ostpolitik1941 Vansittartism1941 sacro egoismo1944 containment1947 technology transfer1963 Finlandization1969 linkage1969 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xviii. 300 England keeps open doors, as a trading country must, to all nations.] 1898 Daily News 25 Jan. 4/7 Why should Russia object to the policy of the open door which has been proclaimed..as the essence of British policy? 1908 Westm. Gaz. 29 Feb. 3/1 The French are treaty-bound to keep the open door. 1939 Ann. Reg. 1938 295 The United States, Great Britain, and France addressed Notes to the Japanese Government asserting that the closing of the Yangtse to foreign vessels was a violation of the principle of the ‘open door’. 1988 Lit. Rev. Aug. 43/3 No one who accepts these [immigration] controls has the right to castigate Mosely, who was pointing out the dangers when those who introduced them were defending ‘the open door’. 1991 Economist 5 Oct. 21/2 The second vital part of Mr Deng's reforms..was the ‘open door’: a cautious welcome for foreign firms and freeish trade, and for the outward-looking habits (and world-price disciplines) that they bring. B. adj. Usually in form open-door. Designating, relating to, characterized by, or conducted under a policy of freedom of admission, access, or movement; spec. (a) of patients in a psychiatric hospital; (b) of immigrants, foreign imports, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [adjective] > hospital > mental hospital > type of open door1958 1887 Guy's Hosp. Rep. 29 91 Much has been said of the improvement recently affected in asylums by what has been called the open-door system. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 9 Aug. 2/2 The open-door proceedings are hardly less puzzling. 1927 New Republic 21 Sept. 108/1 There is some merit in the general plea for ‘most-favored nation’ treatment, if only under the open-door policy. 1958 Spectator 11 July 49/1 All over the country mental hospitals have been converting to the ‘Open Door’ system. 1976 Listener 9 Sept. 302/3 The Americans stood by their own open door policy—that China, just like every other part of the world except the United States, should be wide open to everybody's trade. 1995 Mixmag May 94/1 In the last year student unions have been running ‘proper’ house nights, with name DJs, and often an open door policy that allows anyone in. 2002 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) (Nexis) 19 June 2 b Any time a student needs to talk, he has an opendoor time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1526 |
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