Definitions
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- noun A
plaque mounted on adoor bearinginformation about the occupant or a room or building.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a nameplate fastened to a door; indicates the person who works or lives there
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Examples
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From what he could read, it repeated many of the same warnings found on the doorplate, only in more strident and emphatic tones.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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From what he could read, it repeated many of the same warnings found on the doorplate, only in more strident and emphatic tones.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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From what he could read, it repeated many of the same warnings found on the doorplate, only in more strident and emphatic tones.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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From what he could read, it repeated many of the same warnings found on the doorplate, only in more strident and emphatic tones.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon Matt Forbeck 2010
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It hadn't simply fallen off, either; he'd wrenched it from the doorplate.
red dust Ryn Cricket 2010
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The boiler room was at the back of the building, down a dark hallway and behind a fire door with a one-way lock: no handle, no doorplate.
Venom Joan Brady 2010
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The doorplate that shows our stateroom number has a little notch in it that paper can be slotted into.
April 18th, 2007 ceciliatan 2007
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Next year, though, we're taking the doorplate off the roof access if we can't stand outside and see the fireworks.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007
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Standing in a central and open place it was not difficult to discover, a well-burnished brass doorplate bearing their names prominently.
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Veneering, once their traveller or commission agent: who had signalized his accession to supreme power by bringing into the business a quantity of plate-glass window and French-polished mahogany partition, and a gleaming and enormous doorplate.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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