Sentence examples for as a trapdoor from inspiring English sources

In today's article, he and colleagues describe how they designed introns that disrupted the human CCR5 receptor, a protein that studs the surface of human cells and is exploited as a trapdoor by the AIDS virus to gain entry to the cell.

Asymmetric collapse is a common style of subsidence, either as a trapdoor along a single hinge fault or as a series of blocks (Stix et al., 2003).

As if through a trapdoor I dropped into the past".

She does not so much bump up against a glass ceiling as tumble through a trapdoor, the one that dismisses women by sexualizing them.

Shylock, of course, does not appear in Act V; once he has been cheated of his legal rights, he tumbles out of the action as if through a trapdoor, back into the murky canals.

Locked in the school's garret as punishment, she found a trapdoor leading to the roof and climbed out.

The Ontological's staircase is used to suggest that Claire's secretive workspace exists above the greenhouse, not below a trapdoor, as Glaspell had it.

Boneh et al.'s PEKS scheme assumes a secure channel for sending a trapdoor, as observed by Baek et al. [3].

In our schemes, the concept is the same meaning as a valid trapdoor.

Dennis Amiss called his bouncer a "trapdoor ball", as it came out of nowhere.

With abstraction as the hinge, Duchamp opened a trapdoor at the bottom of Western thought and feeling.