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History and Functions of Doors

A door is a hinged or movable barrier that controls access to an enclosure. Its primary purpose is to provide security by regulating who can enter or exit an opening in a wall or vehicle. Doors are commonly made of materials suited to their purpose and attached via hinges, but can also slide or spin to open. In addition to access control, doors can ensure privacy, separate spaces, allow light and air flow, dampen noise, and block the spread of fire.

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History and Functions of Doors

A door is a hinged or movable barrier that controls access to an enclosure. Its primary purpose is to provide security by regulating who can enter or exit an opening in a wall or vehicle. Doors are commonly made of materials suited to their purpose and attached via hinges, but can also slide or spin to open. In addition to access control, doors can ensure privacy, separate spaces, allow light and air flow, dampen noise, and block the spread of fire.

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Door

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"Doors" redirects here. For the band, see The Doors. For other uses, see Door
(disambiguation).
Various examples of doors throughout history

A door is a hinged or otherwise movable barrier that allows ingress into and egress
from an enclosure. The created opening in the wall is a doorway or portal. A door's
essential and primary purpose is to provide security by controlling access to the
doorway (portal). Conventionally, it is a panel that fits into the portal of
a building, room, or vehicle. Doors are generally made of a material suited to the
door's task. Doors are commonly attached by hinges, but can move by other means,
such as slides or counterbalancing.
The door may be moved in various ways (at angles away from the portal, by sliding
on a plane parallel to the frame, by folding in angles on a parallel plane, or by
spinning along an axis at the center of the frame) to allow or prevent ingress or egress.
In most cases, a door's interior matches its exterior side. But in other cases (e.g.,
a vehicle door) the two sides are radically different.
False door of Nykara, c. 2408 BC, painted limestone, 168 x 111.5 x 6 cm, Cleveland Museum of Art

Doors may incorporate locking mechanisms to ensure that only some people can open
them. Doors may have devices such as knockers or doorbells by which people outside
announce their presence. Apart from providing access into and out of a space, doors
may have the secondary functions of ensuring privacy by preventing unwanted
attention from outsiders, of separating areas with different functions, of
allowing light to pass into and out of a space, of controlling ventilation or air drafts so
that interiors may be more effectively heated or cooled, of dampening noise, and of
blocking the spread of fire.
Doors may have aesthetic, symbolic, ritualistic purposes. Receiving the key to a door
can signify a change in status from outsider to insider.[1] Doors and doorways
frequently appear in literature and the arts with metaphorical or allegorical import as a
portent of change.

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