trapeze
/tɹəˈpiːz/
trapeze noun: a trapezium.
Noun
trapeze (plural trapezes)
- A trapezium.
- A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.
- The trapezium bone.
- […] the distance between the top of the flexor retinaculum and an imaginary line drawn between the trapeze and the hamate.2013, World Health Organization, Manual of Diagnostic Ultrasound, volume 2, page 463
- A certain yo-yo trick.
- I begin a roller-coaster trick by throwing a trapeze, making the yo-yo loop around the finger of my left hand and then land back on the string.2011, Karen Krossing, The Yo-Yo Prophet, page 81
Verb
trapeze (third-person singular simple present trapezes, present participle trapezing, simple past and past participle trapezed)
- To swing on or as on a trapeze.
Proper noun capitalized: Trapeze
Trapeze
- A mountain on the Courbet Peninsula, Grande Terre, Kerguelen Islands of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
trapeze meaning in Arabic
trapeze in Arabic
- swinging horizontal bar
- أُرْجُوحَة ʔurjūḥa
Forms of trapeze
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | trapezes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | trapezes |
| present participle | trapezing |
| past participle | trapezed |
| past | trapezed |
Origin of trapeze
From French trapèze, from Latin trapezium. Doublet of trapezium.
From trapèze - French for trapezium, named so by Edgar Aubert de la Rüe due to the mountain's shape.
Words formed from trapeze
Phrases with trapeze
Words that rhyme with trapeze
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- wheeze
- Cantonese
- chemise
- miner's disease
- Congolese
- dees
- disease
- displease
- frieze
- Japanese
- Keyes
- leese
- overseas
- pease
- please
- Portuguese
- sneeze
- tweeze
- appease
- bes
- bez
- blue cheese
- botanese
- Burmese
- expertise
- fries
- greeze
- Guyanese
- he's
- Javanese
- keys
- legalese
- Louise
- Maltese
- Ningbonese
- octopodes
- Pekingese
- Shanghainese
- she's
- Sinhalese
- Socrates
- tees
- Versaillese
- Viennese
- Vietnamese
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- academese
- agrees
Questions about trapeze
- What does trapeze mean?
- Trapeze means a trapezium.
- What is trapeze in Arabic?
- Trapeze in Arabic is أُرْجُوحَة (ʔurjūḥa). See Trapeze meaning in Arabic.
- What part of speech is trapeze?
- Trapeze can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce trapeze?
- Trapeze is pronounced /tɹəˈpiːz/ (UK).
- What is the plural of trapeze?
- The plural of trapeze is trapezes.
Words near trapeze in the dictionary
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