Sliding door
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A door that opens and closes by sliding to the side; sometimes one of a pair.
"Constructional features of the railbus include the use of rubber suspension for axlebox/underframe and underframe/body mountings, the use of B.U.T. power transmission equipment, many components of which are interchangeable with those on British Railways standard railcars, power-operated sliding doors, and an absence of normal sidebuffers or drawgear."
- 2 a door that opens by sliding instead of swinging wordnet
- 3 Denotes a crucial decision point at which outcomes diverge depending on which of two courses is followed. attributive, figuratively
"sliding door(s) moment, sliding door(s) decision"
Example
More examples"Constructional features of the railbus include the use of rubber suspension for axlebox/underframe and underframe/body mountings, the use of B.U.T. power transmission equipment, many components of which are interchangeable with those on British Railways standard railcars, power-operated sliding doors, and an absence of normal sidebuffers or drawgear."
Etymology
(crucial decision point): From the plot of the film Sliding Doors.