Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun same as
doorstop .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
doorstop : a device for halting the motion of a door. - noun A
gauge used ingeophysics .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a stop that keeps open doors from moving
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Examples
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This 534-page doorstopper is no ordinary kids 'book, for sure.
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The Rebecca West doorstopper is wonderful -- her riff on the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand is brilliant -- but her quirks can get annoying; the idealization of "the Serb" and the anti-German bigotry (according to West, Goethe can be reduced to "ain't Nature grand") start to get wearying, though she usually saves the day with a lyrical description of a remote place like Lake Ohrid, or a chilling recitation of the bloody dynastic wars between the Karageorges and the whoozis, the other guys.
The long grave already dug Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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While I am tired of the "doorstopper" books, I felt like this story really should have been told in 2 books, so that we get more background on the characters and the world and its history.
Review: A Darkness Forged In Fire by Chris Evans Jeff C 2008
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While I am tired of the "doorstopper" books, I felt like this story really should have been told in 2 books, so that we get more background on the characters and the world and its history.
Archive 2008-04-01 Jeff C 2008
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He met with GM ad executives Jack McNulty and George Pruitt, who asked Ken to condense his "doorstopper" proposal into a brief description of the project.
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He met with GM ad executives Jack McNulty and George Pruitt, who asked Ken to condense his "doorstopper" proposal into a brief description of the project.
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YANKEEOGRAPHY PINSTRIPE LEGENDS $179.99; A&E -- This doorstopper of a boxed set is handsomely made and impressively heavy.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Great Boxed Sets? How Sweet It Is! (Plus The Not So Sweet) Michael Giltz 2011
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YANKEEOGRAPHY PINSTRIPE LEGENDS $179.99; A&E -- This doorstopper of a boxed set is handsomely made and impressively heavy.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Great Boxed Sets? How Sweet It Is! (Plus The Not So Sweet) Michael Giltz 2011
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YANKEEOGRAPHY PINSTRIPE LEGENDS $179.99; A&E -- This doorstopper of a boxed set is handsomely made and impressively heavy.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Great Boxed Sets? How Sweet It Is! (Plus The Not So Sweet) Michael Giltz 2011
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A doorstopper of a catalog covers everything from the history of the crafts movement to the more arcane aspects of weaving, woodworking, ceramics, glassmaking and furniture design, seen through the lens of the radical changes in art, society and lifestyle in postwar America.
Coming In From the Cold Ada Louise Huxtable 2011
qms commented on the word doorstopper
I see confusion among the words “doorjamb,” “doorstop,” and “doorstopper.”
I would expect that the hoary publishing usage will over time be eroded by the more popular and flippant “doorstop” and will acquire negative connotations.
March 13, 2015