swing door

English

Alternative forms

• swingdoor

Noun

swing door (plural swing doors)

1. A door that is opened by either pushing or pulling from either side (i.e. opens both ways) and is not normally capable of being locked.

   The restaurant's kitchen was separated from the dining room by a swing door.

   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 44:

     The swing-doors which opened on to his dining-room creaked[.]

Synonyms

• swinging door

Hyponyms

• pivot door, double-hinged door, double-action door

Translations

door that can be opened from either side

• Bulgarian: летяща врата f (letjašta vrata)
• German: Pendeltür (de) f, Schwingtür (de) f, Flügeltür (de) f
• Irish: luascdhoras m, doras luascach m
• Italian: porta a battente f, porta a vento f
• Korean: 여닫이 (ko) (yeodaji)
• Russian: пендельтюр (ru) m (pendelʹtjur)
• Swedish: svängdörr (sv) c

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