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trapdoor Definition

trap·door (trapdôr′)

noun

a hinged or sliding door in a roof, ceiling, or floor

trapdoor Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • open: We had alerted them to our presence when we opened the trapdoor.
  • find: But it was Sexton Blake who found the trapdoor.
  • have: The bladder has a trapdoor, which opens inwards with two or three trigger hairs on the outside.
  • release: The executioner William Billington made his preparations and then released the trapdoors.
  • leave: Try leaving the trapdoor cover off or fitting a small fan to keep it ventilated.
  • use: Use the trapdoor to go down to the lower room to see concept art.

Noun used with modifier

  • relegation: Only a miracle would have stopped the club falling through the relegation trapdoor.

Adjective modifier

  • small: In the ceiling was a small trapdoor that led into the attic.
  • secret: The sliding stone opened into a bare room; from here a secret trapdoor led to a long passageway.
  • wooden: She uncovers a sand covered wooden trapdoor with a rope.

Modifies a noun

  • function: Alice uses the trapdoor function to encrypt the message.
  • expansion: The connection to the Amiga trapdoor expansion slot would also make it impossible to attach an accelerator or Zorro breakout board later.
  • opening: Large trapdoor opening for ease of access to platform.
  • slot: The connection to the Amiga trapdoor expansion slot would also make it impossible to attach an accelerator or Zorro breakout board later.
  • entrance: Like funnel web spiders, they live in burrows, often with a trapdoor entrance, from which they ambush prey.

Preposition: in

  • floor: A series of trapdoors in each floor allowed a hoist to bring up the ordnance.
  • ceiling: A trapdoor in the ceiling was the means to reaching the upper level living space.
  • center: Von Rothbart appears, like a pantomime Demon King, from a trapdoor in the center of the stage.
  • roof: Again with a secure ( lockable ) trapdoor in the roof - to get your ferret out through.
  • stage: A trapdoor in the stage covered with a metal drain cover served as the grave of Agamemnon.