Trapdoor

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A hinged or sliding door in a floor, roof, or ceiling.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A hinged or sliding door set into a floor or ceiling.
  • n. Such a trap set into the floor of a stage to allow fast exits and entrances.
  • n. A secret method of obtaining access to a program or online system; a backdoor.
  • n. The special information that permits the inverse of a trapdoor function to be easily computed.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.
  • n. A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; -- called also weather door.
    • The 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a hinged or sliding door in a floor or ceiling
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    door   
    Cross Reference
    trap-door spider   
    Variant
    weather door   
    Form
    trapdoor spider   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    drop   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    hatchway    skylight    hatch    stairway    catwalk   
     
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