trapdoor
trapdoor
Definition
trap·door (trap′dôr′)
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.
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