There's the Italian word serramento which means "a window or a door", used in this way for example:
Our company produces [serramenti] in aluminium.
Is there an equivalent word or expression that refers to doors and windows in general in English?
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The door swings on its hinge.
To move backward and forward, especially rotating about or hanging from a fixed point.
Turns, as suggested by other answerers, sounds like another great possibility. But a quick look at the actual usage stats brings up something interesting.
Here are the top 50 collocations for "the door [v*]" from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and the British National Corpus (BNC):
| COCA | BNC
| |
1 | OPENED 992 | WAS 402
2 | WAS 943 | OPENED 327
3 | OPEN 830 | OPEN 175
4 | IS 659 | CLOSED 151
5 | OPENS 611 | SHUT 103
6 | SHUT 588 | IS 73
7 | CLOSED 573 | SWUNG 57
8 | SWUNG 249 | HAD 53
9 | CLOSES 164 | SLAMMED 42
10 | HAD 158 | LEADING 21
11 | SLAMMED 137 | OPENS 21
12 | LEADING 98 | WOULD 20
13 | SLAMS 92 | BURST 19
14 | WOULD 88 | 'S 19
15 | SLID 80 | LOCKED 19
16 | 'S 71 | WILL 18
17 | LOCKED 66 | FLEW 17
18 | FLEW 63 | WERE 16
19 | CREAKED 57 | BEING 13
20 | CLOSE 56 | SLID 13
21 | SWINGS 50 | HAS 11
22 | HAS 49 | BANGED 11
23 | SHUTS 49 | CLICKED 11
24 | CLICKED 46 | MADE 10
25 | SLAM 45 | CLOSE 9
26 | UNLOCKED 43 | CRASHED 9
27 | BURST 40 | MUST 9
28 | BANGED 40 | DID 8
29 | WEARING 39 | SAYING 8
30 | SAID 36 | CREAKED 7
31 | CRACKED 34 | CAN 7
32 | DID 34 | LOOKING 7
33 | WERE 34 | SHUTS 7
34 | WILL 34 | BEGAN 6
35 | CAME 30 | CLOSES 6
36 | ARE 29 | OPENING 6
37 | STOOD 28 | STOOD 6
38 | LOOKING 25 | WENT 6
39 | COULD 23 | FELL 5
40 | BEING 22 | BROKE 5
41 | DOES 21 | CAME 5
42 | GAVE 21 | HISSED 5
43 | BURSTS 20 | MIGHT 5
44 | CLOSING 20 | SLAM 5
45 | CRASHED 20 | SWINGING 5
46 | FLIES 20 | UNLOCKED 5
47 | REMAINED 19 | WO 5
48 | CAN 18 | CLANGED 4
49 | HIT 18 | FACING 4
50 | COMES 16 | INTERRUPTED 4
As you can see, out of these swing is the top (and arguably only) verb that fits your bill, while turn is not even on the list.
For a single word, one could use denude and it's various forms.
[OED] denude.
1. trans. To make naked or bare; to strip of clothing or covering; spec. in Geol. of natural agencies: To lay bare (a rock or formation) by the removal of that which lies above it.
However, if you were to take your car into a garage and ask them to denude it, I suspect they'd all glance at the Pirelli calendar hanging on the office wall before taking a deep breath in through their teeth and saying Could be quite costly.
Another possibility is strip
[OED] strip
11. a. To remove (an adhering covering of skin, bark, lead, paper, etc.); to pull off (leaves, fruit) from a tree, etc.; to remove (paint or varnish) from woodwork, etc. Also to strip off. Cf. stripped ppl. a. b.
However, if you were to ask your local garage to strip your car, they would immediately set about removing any part of the car than can be removed, leaving you with a large pile of parts and a car body that is still completely covered in paint.
If we are not restricted to a single word then bare metalled seems to be term used occasionally in the body shop community.
The only term, that I'm aware of, that is used by body shop people for removing paint from a car is to take it down/back to the bare-metal. This usually involves sand blasting the coverings from the metal (glass beads these days for health and safety reasons). Some images can be found here http://the2cvshop.co.uk/shotblasting_1_classic.html
With thanks to Janus Bahs Jacquet, it seems that bare-metal can be verbed into bare metalled.
[SPR Coachworks Ltd] at https://www.facebook.com/SPRCoachworksLtd/posts/683435985028935 Porsche 356A has now been bare metalled.
We then applied an Epoxy coating to protect the bare metal from corroding.
and
[DasRestohaus] at http://dasrestohaus.com.au/gallery2/v/Type+2/Jacks+59+11+window/Oct29+nose+bare+metalled.JPG.html
Oct29 nose bare metalled
The nose was taken back to bare metal to do some repairs (yep even new panels are not perfectly straight)....deoxidine applied first to condition metal
Once you have it at the bare-metal stage, the next stage is to prime it, so you could say that the car is unprimed.
[OED] priming
4. concr. a. The substance or mixture used by painters for the preparatory coat. b. A coat or layer of the substance. Also fig.
Humorously (or humourlessly) you could perhaps coin DeLoreanated with reference to the DeLorean DMC-12 which has a completely unpainted body shell
Best Answer
It is common to use the phrase 'doors and windows' as a class of objects that is part of a construction (typically part of what is known as joinery and woodwork). This suggests that there is no widely used and understood single word for this purpose.
In certain technical contexts, doors, windows, ventilators, etc., are collectively referred to as 'openings'. (I could say openings increase the cost of a concrete structure.) You will notice that openings could be understood to be framed (in wood, metal, etc.,), rather than just an absence of material.