doorhandle


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Noun1.doorhandle - a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain)doorhandle - a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain)
exterior door, outside door - a doorway that allows entrance to or exit from a building
knob - a round handle
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
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Everyone bunches up, doorhandle to doorhandle and an immediate concertina bunching effect starts.
Some GPs talk about "doorhandle consultations", where patients wait until they are opening the door to leave to bring up the issue that is worrying them the most.
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A glass panel on the door allows passers-by to survey books, and the doorhandle is in the shape of a dragonfly.
Turns out Stevie already ate the black pearl for dinner with a fried doorhandle, but never mind.
Then, somewhat philosophically, he remarks that one of the pleasures of the protracted British Library project was that almost every drawing for every detail, down to the merest doorhandle, passed across his drawing-board and was also worked out, where appropriate, in three dimensions: a fastidiousness typical of his approach to his collecting as well as to his practice.
Francine curves her fingers around the doorhandle, pulls it open, and steps into the smoky light as if she were a woman with red boots who had someone waiting for her.
Scott Miller, 29, and wife Lindsey, 33, had altered the doorhandle so Nathan - described as a "handful" and "worse than Dennis the Menace" - could not get out.
A prisoner polishing a doorhandle. In the mirror I see him see My face in the mirror, I see the fingertips of his free hand Bunch together, as if to make An object the size of a badge Which travels up to his forehead The place of an imaginary cap.
And a prisoner was shown standing handcuffed on a box with his leg through his arms and his ankle chained to a doorhandle.