fire door

English

Noun

fire door (plural fire doors)

1. A fireproof door designed to stop fires spreading through buildings.
   • 2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “We're counting down the days”, in RAIL, number 953, page 39, photo caption:

     There are 10,000 fire doors on the Elizabeth Line, including these two at Liverpool Street that have been tested to tolerate a two-hour blaze at temperatures as high as 3,000°C.

2. The door of a furnace offering access to the fire inside.

Alternative forms

• firedoor

Translations

a fireproof door designed to stop fires spreading through buildings

• Catalan: porta tallafoc f
• Danish: branddør (da) c
• Hebrew: דֶּלֶת אֵשׁ (he)
• Hungarian: tűzgátló ajtó
• Irish: doras dóiteáin m
• Japanese: 防火扉 (bōkatobira)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: branndør m or f

  Nynorsk: branndør f

• Portuguese: porta corta-fogo f
• Swedish: branddörr c
• Welsh: drws tân m

See also

• fire door on Wikipedia.Wikipedia