door handle

collocation in English

meaningsofdoorandhandle

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door
noun[C]
uk
/dɔːr/us
/dɔːr/
a flat object that is used to close the entrance of something such as a room or building, or the ...
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handle
noun[C]
uk
/ˈhæn.dəl/us
/ˈhæn.dəl/
a part of an object designed for holding, moving, or carrying the ...
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(Definition ofdoorandhandlefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdoor handle

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We experience buildings from detail to concept (a hand grips adoorhandleand a space unfolds), yet we design them from concept to detail.
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In a mechanical device domain, an example would be a doorlocking problem whereby a given input motion of thedoorhandleleads to a retraction motion of the latch.
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In a mechanical device domain, an example would be a door locking problem whereby a given input motion of adoorhandleleads to a retraction motion of the latch.
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Yet our experience of architecture is often from the detail to the concept; for instance a hand grips adoorhandleand a space slowly reveals itself.
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It applies, for example, merely to turning adoorhandleor gaining admission by a false pretence, and a breaking can be difficult to prove.
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In other words, he thought that a single handling of a cardoorhandlewould never form the substance of a prosecution.
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For example, "breaking" applies merely to turning adoorhandleor gaining admission by a false pretence, but often a breaking is difficult to prove.
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If somebody handles a cardoorhandle, that is interfering.
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For example, the individual has to try the cardoorhandleor attempt to open the window.
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The policeman suspected they had been drinking heavily by the way they held thedoorhandleof the car.
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Would trying onedoorhandleconstitute interfering with a motor vehicle?
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The air pressure release is a handle beneath the rectangular center window that is similar in appearance to a cardoorhandle.
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Locking can be done on the touch sensors on everydoorhandleand the lock button of the power closing trunk.
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The date is revealed by spinning thedoorhandleand opening the plastic door on the game board.
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The transmitter installed in the ignition key was aimed at this receiver patch on thedoorhandle.
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Doorhandlerecess panels are bonded and glassed in place.
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It could only be released by the key, or by a button on the driver's control panel; it did not have a traditionaldoorhandle.
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This happens when the user pulls thedoorhandleto its full extent before the door is unlocked.
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The oldschooldoorhandlewasn't easy to open you have to push the button to open.
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Thatdoorhandlestill seems to me like a special sign of entry into a world of different moods and smells.
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