Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A hinged or sliding door in a floor, roof, or ceiling.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In mining, a door designed to direct air-currents in ventilating systems, or to prevent, surface wind from deranging the normal direction of air-currents.
- n. A door in a floor or roof which when shut is flush, or nearly so, with what surrounds it.
Wiktionary
- n. A hinged or sliding door set into a floor or ceiling.
- n. theater Such a trap set into the floor of a stage to allow fast exits and entrances.
- n. computing A secret method of obtaining access to a program or online system; a backdoor.
- n. mathematics, cryptography The special information that permits the inverse of a trapdoor function to be easily computed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Arch.) A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.
- n. (Mining) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; -- called also
weather door .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a hinged or sliding door in a floor or ceiling
Etymologies
- trap + door (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Beneath the trapdoor was a ladder, which descended four meters to a landing at the top of a narrow stairwell.”
“Under the trapdoor was a space two feet on either side, containing the ashes of some finery, and a black tin box.”
“Renegade334: I heard about this totally robust hack of Phates I mean totally and I saw him online and I asked him about it only he just dissed me. then Weird stuff started happening after that and I heard about this script he wrote called trapdoor and now Im totally paranoyd.”
“GOODMAN: Thank you Mr Chair, this is a so-called trapdoor amendment I guess, um, and in a somewhat exhaustive search, first of all the courts presume that um that ah that sections of bills are severable apart from one another.”
“The team used what is called a trapdoor function, which is generated by quasigroup string transformations based on multivariate quadratic quasigroups.”
“Now, 'trapdoor' in the computer world means a hole built into a security system that lets the software designers get back inside to fix problems without needing a passcode.”
“One of her new ads compares the economy under President Bush to a "trapdoor," similar to a spot she used before Super Tuesday that used a falling skydiver as an economic metaphor.”
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“This is simply a metal plate-a kind of trapdoor-built into the floor of the living room fireplace above a deep, bricklined pit.”
“As the result of this study, I concluded that SKIPJACK does not contain any "trapdoor" and is not vulnerable to any short-cut method of attack.”
“Assuming of course that there’d be a convenient trapdoor aka Lost with a supply of coffee and chocolate hob-nobs.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trapdoor’.
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50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
walking, bicycle, bus, train, motorcycle, airplane, car, truck, segway, limousine, roller coaster, wheelbarrow and 130 more...
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It's a trap
trap, gin, snare, deadfall, trapezium, trapezoid, trappist, venus flytrap, foothold trap, trapping pit, glue trap, trap set and 98 more...
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Your Mission: Find theTraps
List of words that contain the letter string *trap*. Some are obvious and apparent, such as trapezoid, while others are a bit less apparent, such as contrapuntist, ultraphysical, and intraperitoneal.
trapezoid, contrapuntist, wentletrap, allotetraploid, bootstrap, caltrap, unstrap, Trappist, ultraphysical, trapline, Trapt, autotetraploidy and 195 more...
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Out
Words that connote making an exit, places to exit, means to an exit.
exit, way out, exeunt, outfall, opening, débouché, outlet, egress, vent, porthole, loophole, port and 49 more...
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Adore doors
doornik, doornail, door jam, doorjamb, doorbell, doorbelle, doorbella, adoor, closeddoor, door-to-door, dutch-door, door nailed and 52 more...
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FTL
Words listed first by me that don't belong in any other list.
licit, precis, mnemosyne, badinage, mariposa, lepidoptera, coruscation, poignant, meme, oxymoron, xenophobia, asterism and 128 more...
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Loaded Dice
Off the straight and narrow; less than straight arrow.
chicanery, sophistry, pilfer, rook, diddle, fleece, grift, poach, rustle, pinch, abscond, steal and 140 more...
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KaeZoo's Words
flingers, unhinged, driven, flanked, arboreal, venerable, endearing, iconoclastic, fletcher, competent, fireproof, cavernous and 215 more...
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cucchiaio's Words
ambidextrous, octogenarian, unanimous, semaphore, luminous, indigenous, epistemological, ravenous, receptacle, petrify, rectify, lepidopterologist and 104 more...
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