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单词 trapdoor
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trapdoorn.

/ˈtrapˈdɔː/
Etymology: < trap n.1 + door n.
a. A door, either sliding or moving on hinges, and flush with the surface, in a floor, roof, or ceiling, or in the stage of a theatre.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > trapdoor
trapc1374
trapdoorc1374
fall door1481
scuttle1707
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 710 (759) ‘Which weye be ye comen..?’ Quod she... ‘Here at þis secre trappe dore’, quod he.
1489–90 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 155 For viij ffoote di. tymber for o trapp dorr.
1579–80 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1595) 1092 Aristippus..locked himself..in a litle high chamber with a trappe dore, and set his bed vpon it, and so slept.
1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 97 They have their trap doores or pit-falls in darke melancholy chambers.
1704 S. Sewall Diary 12 Sept. (1973) I. 513 Mrs. Tuthill falls through a Trap Door into the cellar.
1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 93 The trap-door in the floor, contrived for the lowering in of the captives.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxxv. 292 Getting on the roof of the house through the trap-door.
b. transferred and figurative.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > instance or cause of > hidden
pitfallc1390
wevet1499
a pad in the straw1530
shelf1560
trapfall1596
snake1611
trapdoor1648
mantrap1798
death-trap1828
nigger in the woodpile1852
—— in the woodpile1857
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 82 Never to go to those parts, which were but snares and trap-dores to let down to hell.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. xxxiv. 136 It no more open'd its Guttural Trap-door.
1860 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1859 206 (note) The operculum is a horny or shelly appendage to the end of the foot... It may be called..the trap-door or toe-nail.
1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 94 The trap-door of some hidden paradox.
c. Mining. A door in a level for directing the ventilating current; a weather-door.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > ventilation passages or openings
througher1645
thirling1686
air-pit1709
horse-head1747
sollar1778
airway1800
wind-hole1802
bearing door1813
air course1814
downcast shaft1814
upcast shaft (or pit)1816
buze1823
air road1832
raggling1839
thirl1847
brattice1849
intake1849
run1849
trapdoor1849
skailing1850
return1851
wind-road1860
breakthrough1875
wind-way1875
breast1882
cross-heading1883
skail-door1883
U.C.1883
undercast1883
vent1886
furnace-drift1892
the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > ventilator > ventilation opening or hole > in a mine
skail-doora1693
bearing door1813
trapdoor1849
skailing1850
weather-door1881
1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 54 A little boy whose employment consists in opening and shutting a trap-door when required.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Trap-door, a small door, kept locked, fixed in a stopping or bolt, for giving access to firemen and certain others to the return air-ways, dams, or other disused places in a mine.
1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 68 Trap-door, a door in an underground road for directing the ventilating current.
d. Computing. A method of surreptitiously gaining unauthorized access to data belonging to other users of a computer.
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society > computing and information technology > data > database > [noun] > access or retrieval > unauthorized access
trapdoor1977
1976 D. B. Parker Crime by Computer xii. 112 The Trojan horse had been rolled into the fortified city and fully accepted. In the unsuspecting environment a trap~door in its belly opened, and out popped the soldiers.]
1977 New Yorker 29 Aug. 61/1 The nature of a trapdoor is that, while it is known to and usable by a penetrator, it is unrecognized by and unknown to other users of the system—even to the audit-trail mechanism.
1981 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 27 July 5/5Trapdoors’ allow people sharing a computer to slip into the confidential data streams of other users.
1982 S. F. X. Dean Such Pretty Toys xiv. 191 He just entered the girl's name into the computer..as some sort of routing key or trapdoor to cut off any trace.
e. Cryptography. A piece of secret information that makes it easy to solve an otherwise very difficult code. Frequently attributive.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > decoding, deciphering > [noun] > aid to
trapdoor1978
1978 Communications ACM 21 128 They are called ‘trap-door’ functions since the inverse functions are in fact easy to compute once certain private ‘trap-door’ information is known.
1982 H. Beker & F. Piper Cipher Syst. 376 The general name given to this type of function (i.e. for which there does not appear to be a polynomial time algorithm but for which there is one so long as the method of application is known) is a trapdoor function. In our situation it is intended that the genuine receiver should be the only person who knows how to ‘open’ the trapdoor.
1984 IEEE Trans. Information Theory XXX. 595/1 It is this presence of trapdoors that makes some of the attacks on the additive knapsack cryptosystems feasible.

Compounds

trapdoor spider n. one of a group of large spiders, which make a nest in the shape of a tube with a hinged lid which opens and shuts like a trapdoor; hence trapdoor nest, etc.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > division Tetrapneumones > family Mygalidae > member of
mason spider1826
trapdoor spider1826
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxiv. 492 The trapdoor or mason spider (Mygale cœmentaria).
1864–5 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands (1868) vi. 116 Of all the burrowing spiders..none is so admirable an excavator as the Trap-door Spider of Jamaica [Cteniza].
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Dec. 5/1 The trap-door spider is almost the typical natural curiosity of the Riviera.
1897 A. Page Afternoon Ride 58 The..spider, decoyed out of his well-built trap-door nest.
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