Sliding vs. Trapdoor — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Sliding and Trapdoor
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Sliding
To move over a surface while maintaining smooth continuous contact.
Trapdoor
A trapdoor is a sliding or hinged door in a floor or ceiling. It is traditionally small in size.
Sliding
To participate in a sport that involves such movement
Sliding for a medal in luge.
Trapdoor
A hinged or sliding door in a floor, roof, or ceiling.
Sliding
To lose a secure footing or positioning; slip
Slid on the ice and fell.
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Trapdoor
A hinged or sliding door set into a floor or ceiling.
Sliding
To pass smoothly and quietly; glide
Slid past the door without anyone noticing.
Trapdoor
(theater) Such a trap set into the floor of a stage to allow fast exits and entrances.
Sliding
(Baseball) To drop down from a running into a lying or diving position when approaching a base so as to avoid being tagged out.
Trapdoor
(computing) A secret method of obtaining access to a program or online system; a backdoor.
Sliding
To be ignored or not dealt with; drop
Let the matter slide.
Trapdoor
The special information that permits the inverse of a trapdoor function to be easily computed.
Sliding
To decrease
Prices slid in morning trading.
Trapdoor
(mining) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; a weather door.
Sliding
To become less favorable or less desirable
Economic conditions have begun to slide.
Trapdoor
A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.
Sliding
To cause to slide or slip
Slid the glass down to the other end of the counter.
Trapdoor
A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; - called also weather door.
Sliding
To place covertly or deftly
Slid the stolen merchandise into his pocket.
Sliding
A sliding movement or action.
Sliding
A smooth, usually inclined surface or track for sliding
A water slide.
Sliding
A playground apparatus for children to slide on, typically consisting of a smooth chute climbed onto by means of a ladder.
Sliding
A part that operates by sliding, as the U-shaped section of tube on a trombone that is moved to change the pitch.
Sliding
A period of decline or loss
"The semiconductor industry is heading for a cyclical slide" (New York Times).
Sliding
An image on a transparent base for projection on a screen.
Sliding
One of a series of images projected digitally as part of a presentation.
Sliding
A small glass plate for mounting specimens to be examined under a microscope.
Sliding
A fall of a mass of rock, earth, or snow down a slope; an avalanche or landslide.
Sliding
A backless shoe with an open toe.
Sliding
A slight portamento used in violin playing, passing quickly from one note to another.
Sliding
An ornamentation consisting of two grace notes approaching the main note.
Sliding
A small metal or glass tube worn over a finger or held in the hand, used in playing bottleneck-style guitar.
Sliding
The bottleneck style of guitar playing.
Sliding
Present participle of slide
Children were swinging and sliding in the playground.
Sliding
The motion of something that slides.
Sliding
Designed or able to slide.
Our yard is just outside the sliding door.
Sliding
That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly.
Sliding
Slippery; elusory.
That sliding science hath me made so bare.
Sliding
Being a smooth continuous motion
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