cửa mạch
Definition
- Noun:
- A connecting door: A door that provides access or a passageway between two adjacent rooms or houses. This term specifically denotes a door that serves as a point of communication between two separate but adjoining interior spaces.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Căn hộ này có một cửa mạch thông sang phòng bên cạnh. (This apartment has a connecting door to the room next door.)
- Họ đóng cửa mạch lại để có sự riêng tư. (They closed the connecting door for privacy.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is architectural and somewhat formal or technical. It is used to describe a specific functional feature in a building's layout, emphasizing the door's role in creating a linked or suite-like arrangement of rooms.
Variants and Related Words
- Cửa thông phòng: A more common, general term for a connecting or interconnecting door between rooms.
- Hai phòng ngủ có cửa thông phòng với nhau. (The two bedrooms have an interconnecting door.)
Synonyms
- Connecting door: A door that joins two rooms.
- Intercommunicating door: A door allowing passage between two adjoining spaces.
- Passage door: A door used as a passageway.
Related Concepts
- Cửa chính: main door, front door.
- Cửa phụ: secondary door, side door.
- Vách ngăn: partition wall (a fixed divider, as opposed to a door).