(n.) A dungeon with an opening only at the top, found in some old castles and other strongholds, into which persons condemned to perpetual imprisonment, or to perish secretly, were thrust, or lured to fall.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is why it has survived so long, although, ironically, it lay in an oubliette of relative obscurity until denounced by a Huguenot exile, who claimed that it was Catherine de' Medici's favourite book and a work that encouraged bloodthirsty, cynical statecraft.
(2) Our friends were in the Oubliette, with its dungeon hidden below.
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.