Dictionary entry
Trapdoor
Pronunciation: /trapˈdɔː/
Pronunciation
/trapˈdɔː/
Myanmar Meaning
(ကြမ်းပြင်၊မျက်နှာကြက်၊ အမိုးရှိ) အံဝှက်တံခါး။
Definition
trapdoor /'træpdↄ:(r)/ (also trap ) n (ၾကမ္းျပင္၊ မ်က္ႏွာၾကက္၊ အမိုးရိွ) အံဝွက္တံခါး။
Examples
- ‘We had ascended the steep staircase and out through a narrow trapdoor on to the roof of the tower
- high above the battlements of his creaking ancestral pile.’
- ‘It was a normal looking place
- some trees in the back
- a little wooden house ahead
- and a trapdoor on the floor.’
- ‘He descended a ladder and went down through a trapdoor to the 5th floor.’
- ‘Then she slowly slid open a trapdoor in the floor.’
- ‘And in the centre of the floor
- a wooden trapdoor stood open.’
- ‘Both sides of the hall were lined with doors and even the ceiling had trapdoors spaced at periodic intervals in it.’
- ‘He tiptoed over to a trapdoor in the roof and pulled it slowly.’
- ‘He strode angrily to the other trapdoor on his roof
- the one that led to the two rooms where his sons dwelled.’
- ‘I looked at the trapdoor in the roof
- which led down to where they were.’
- ‘The sailor opened the trapdoor and the rusty hinges squealed loudly.’
- ‘The stricken ship is presented simply but effectively using a rope ladder for the rigging
- which hung from the ceiling above a trapdoor
- which served as the ship's hatchway.’
- ‘Meet the trapdoor spiders
- famed for their silk-lined burrows complete with emergency exits
- hinged trapdoors and careful camouflage.’
- ‘Obeying a nameless impulse to look up
- I detected the hair-thin outline of a square trapdoor in the high ceiling.’
- ‘There's a trapdoor in the ceiling: the time capsule takes us up through it
- and we're in the family's living quarters: the whole family gathered around the hearth.’
- ‘After a while
- a trapdoor in the roof opened
- and a girl clambered out.’
- ‘Luckily for our boys
- it also has a trapdoor in the floor leading conveniently into a series of maintenance tunnels which are accessible through any manhole in Montreal.’
- ‘It contained a trapdoor on the ceiling
- which she opened and pulled out a ladder.’
- ‘A scampering noise beat across the ceiling before a little trapdoor opened with a dull thud
- previously completely invisible to all in the bar.’
- ‘She stared at the floor
- where the trapdoor had once been.’
- ‘Under polite questioning from the audience
- he acknowledged that some closed-source commercial products have been found to have trapdoors themselves.’