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词汇 doorpost
释义 doorpost
noun[ C ]
mainly UKuk /ˈdɔː.pəʊst/ us /ˈdɔːr.poʊst/(US usuallydoorjamb)
one of the two vertical posts on either side of an opening into which a door fits门柱
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Parts of buildings: doors & parts of doors
architrave
back door
bell push
bi-fold
cat flap
draught excluder
emergency exit
entryway
fire door
five-bar gate
knob
knocker
letterbox
purging
revolving door
safety gate
screen door
shoji
up-and-over
weatherboarding
Examples from literature

As he did so his eye casually fell on the handsome girl by the doorpost, who was looking at him. 
He leaned against the doorpost and wiped his forehead. 
It struck the doorpost, narrowly missing her shoulder. 
Leaning against the doorpost, he at first chuckled and then roared. 
She reeled slightly and caught the doorpost for support. 

Examples of doorpost


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The marks are reminiscent, too, of those used by carpenters to aid them in their work, which might explain their appearance on doorposts if not on trees.
If you break those things you can put up the whole of the house except, for example, the doorpost.
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I should never be happy unless seat belts were able to be unhooked at the doorpost of a car.
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Some of them are lying on their beds; some are propping up doorposts, smoking.
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This succeeded until the tip of the sheath touched the doorpost, and it shrieked.
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This time, the king's son breaks the witch's daughter's leg, and has the doorpost smeared with tar, so that her silver circlet is caught.
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There is also an unidentifiable figure on the right doorpost.
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The bronze bands covered both doors and the doorposts.
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The massive timber doorposts remaining today indicate this.
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On the interior of the doorposts there are pictures showing the various works done during the different seasons of the year.
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The entrance to the nave, with marble doorposts, was the entrance of the original building.
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Careful reconstruction of these gates demonstrates that the doorposts were tapered towards the top and the bands also reduced in size.
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The current floors, staircases and doorposts can be traced back to this period as well.
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Pasting the character upside-down on a door or doorpost thus translates into a wish for prosperity to descend upon a dwelling.
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I sat down by the entrance, alongside the doorpost of the gate, while my cogitations from foolishness were sorely gripped by fear.
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