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单词 trapdoors
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trapdoor

noun

trap·​door ˈtrap-ˈdȯr How to pronounce trapdoor (audio)
: a lifting or sliding door covering an opening (as in a roof, ceiling, or floor)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The football coach went through the backdoor at SEC headquarters during Auburn’s internal investigation, but now the trapdoor awaits. Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 26 Aug. 2022 Gassner built the interior of the apartment on a soundstage, including the trapdoor that Six falls through, landing in a claustrophobic brick space. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 July 2022 The formal dining room was formerly used as a butler’s parlor and has access to the cellars via a wooden staircase under a trapdoor. Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 20 June 2022 The demon lets the hot molecules moving about the compartments pass through the trapdoor in one direction but not the other. Quanta Magazine, 26 May 2022 The only specimen ever collected of Fagilde’s trapdoor spider, in Portugal, for example, was lost in a museum fire in the nineteen-thirties. Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2022 The Sanctuary will have several kinds of treehouse rooms with wild features including a spiral slide, a climbing rope, a net swing, a secret ladder and a trapdoor. Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022 Or forage for them — as the recipe developer Zoe Yang has done, using periwinkles (small marine snails) in place of the trapdoor snails gathered from rice fields in Nanjing. New York Times, 23 Mar. 2022 But the real design fun comes with the tree house's spiral slide, climbing rope, bucket pulley, net swing, secret ladder, trapdoor, telescope, and even a custom drink shoot for bottles and cans from the kitchen to the lower porch. Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

trapdoor

noun

trap·​door ˈtrap-ˈdȯr How to pronounce trapdoor (audio)
: a lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a floor or roof

trapdoors

noun

plural of trapdoor
as in portcullises

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • portcullises
  • lattices
  • double doors
  • portals
  • hatches
  • storm doors
  • revolving doors
  • posterns
  • wickets
  • doors
  • French doors
  • Dutch doors
  • gates
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