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   Hi, Paul!  Recently you wrote in a message to Alexander Koryagin:   
      
   PQ>  What are the possible conditions for a door to remain   
   PQ>  at rest: open or closed.   
      
      
              Hmm.  Unless a door is completely open or closed, it may not remain   
   as you left it... and according to my CANADIAN OXFORD DICTIONARY "pull to" may   
   be used when a boat or a bus comes to a stop in a predetermined location.  :-)   
      
      
      
   PQ>  From the inside, we push a door open; or, pull a door   
   PQ>  closed.   
      
      
              That's what I found confusing here.  In Canada the doors of private   
   residences generally open inward, but the doors of public buildings & suchlike   
   generally open outward because of some emergency years ago in which folks were   
   crushed by the mass of others who in their panic didn't realize the person who   
   got to the door first needed to be allowed enough space to open it.  Since you   
   live in the southern hemisphere, where everything is upside down, YMMV.  And I   
   know very little about how things were done in Long Island a century ago.  :-Q   
      
      
      
   PQ>  Pull door, door closes.  Silly isn't it.  :)   
      
      
              Problem solved (maybe).  With a bit of research I found out that to   
   some folks at least what matters is not the direction of travel toward or away   
   from any humans involved but how close the object is to its designated target.   
   When we "pull a door to", we bring it closer to the door frame.  I guess "pull   
   to" makes more sense from the door's POV than it did from mine at first.   
      
              I learned something today, thanks to you.  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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