What's the difference between door and trapdoor?

Door


Definition:

  • (n.) An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.
  • (n.) The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened.
  • (n.) Passage; means of approach or access.
  • (n.) An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We were instantly refused entrance by the heavies at the door.
  • (2) He can open doors anywhere and they would at least have someone else to blame.
  • (3) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
  • (4) Macy’s said more than 15,000 people were lined up outside its flagship New York City store when it opened its doors at 6pm on Thanksgiving.
  • (5) Clifford began representing the family after the media were "camped out on their door" earlier this year but said that he was not being paid by the family, added that the story should never have been in the paper.
  • (6) America is made up of immigrants and to shut the doors to others is just ludicrous.
  • (7) Another source inside the centre, quoted earlier on the Detained Voices blog, said detainees had banged on their doors throughout the lockdown.
  • (8) It's not good enough for some councils to respond to funding problems by cutting care behind closed doors.
  • (9) It was also chided for failing to roll out a 2011 pilot scheme to put doors on fridges in its stores.
  • (10) Back then, before her life took a darker turn, Holiday was able to leave the song, and its politics, at the door on the way out.
  • (11) Criminal court charges leave me no choice but to resign as a magistrate Read more “This is a terrible piece of legislation introduced through the back door,” he wrote.
  • (12) One day, out of the blue, there's a knock on the door.
  • (13) Attach self-adhesive foam strips, or metal strips with brushes or wipers attached, to window, door and loft-hatch frames (if you have sash windows, it's better to ask a professional to do it).
  • (14) At 7.40am Lord Feldman, the Conservative party chairman, knocked on the front door of No 10.
  • (15) The case of a 32-year-old man who suffered a blow to his left supraorbital region and eyebrow in an automatic closing door is reported to draw attention to the uncommon but trivial nature of this injury which may result in profound visual loss.
  • (16) A family who live next door to the Bredon Croft address said Masood used to turn up in Islamic dress and take their neighbours’ children to a mosque, though they did not know which one.
  • (17) I'm concerned, because it opens the door to all sorts of people with opinions that aren't sensible.
  • (18) This is done by scoring the septal cartilage in its basal attachment to the maxillary crest, providing a "swinging door" which can be sutured finally as desired.
  • (19) Matteo Renzi, the Italian leader who has argued it would be a disaster if Britain left the EU, suggested defensiveness about freedom of movement led to nowhere apart from opening the door to “right-wing xenophobia and nationalism” in Europe .
  • (20) She told Time magazine that “doors and windows were flying” after the blast.

Trapdoor


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The material was used as an intrascleral implant in 100 trapdoor retinal procedures.
  • (2) Moreover, within the question of what provision goes where, lurk trapdoors.
  • (3) It allows primary closure of recipient and donor site without the formation of dog-ear or trapdoor deformity.
  • (4) This series included 192 trapdoor and scleral pouch procedures, and 183 operations in which a gelatin implant was used beneath a silicone rubber implant.
  • (5) Yet the fact remains that, since he left the Liberty Stadium in 2009, a section of the Swansea fans have branded him "El Judas" and City's 3-2 win in May pushed his Wigan side to the relegation trapdoor.
  • (6) The launch didn’t go well, which was bad news for their nuclear program but good news for the man-eating crocodiles that live under the trapdoor in Kim Jong-un’s bedroom.
  • (7) For marked trapdoor deformities, the combination of multiple, small Z-plasties along the semicircular scar and peripheral undermining about the trapdoor defect is the corrective procedure.
  • (8) For mild to moderately severe trapdoor deformities, multiple, small Z-plasties about the periphery of the nasolabial flap are indicated.
  • (9) Trapdoor fractures of the floor of the orbit were first described in 1965 by Soll and Poley.
  • (10) Sheath closure after tendon grafting was accomplished by trapdoor of the original sheath, vein patch, and vein conduit.
  • (11) It has recently been the source of three new kinds of plant, a trapdoor spider , another snail and new kind of Bent-toed Gecko .
  • (12) Intralesional triamcinolone acetonide injections may produce a "pharmacologic Z-plasty" effect in some trapdoor deformities.
  • (13) Tissue obtained at seven different time periods was studied by light and electron microscopy and showed only a mild inflammatory reaction of the same grade as or less than that surrounding nylon sutures used to close the scleral trapdoors.
  • (14) Animals were randomized into three groups based on the type of incision used: inferiorly based trapdoor, vertical slit, or horizontal H. Endoscopic, radiographic, and airflow studies, as well as cross-sectional areas, were compared on all animals surviving tracheal cannulation for eight days and subsequent decannulation for seven days.
  • (15) In 2009, when a veteran Washington reporter, Helen Thomas, asked Barack Obama in the first month of his presidency if he knew of any country in the Middle East with nuclear weapons, he dodged the trapdoor by saying only that he did not wish to "speculate".
  • (16) Fractured bone tips were classified to depressive and trapdoor types.
  • (17) In the modern benefits system, trapdoors abound: if you fail to get the employment and support allowance and find yourself on jobseeker's allowance, for example, you will not only suffer a 14% drop in income but may very well fall foul of the latter's demands and find yourself "sanctioned", with no benefits at all.
  • (18) The fractures were classified on the basis of the location (floor, medial wall or roof), extent (total, partial or linear) and type of fragments (punched-out or trapdoor).
  • (19) With regard to the type of fragments, all of the trapdoor type cases showed a favorable result with disappearance of double vision within three months.
  • (20) Success can be anticipated only in carefully selected cases with relatively circumscribed stenosis, if the so-called submucous resection with micro-trapdoor flap technique is employed.