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trapeze
/tɹəˈpiːz/
noun 4verb 1name 1
Collocations
3VERB + TRAPEZE
circle, drawn, throwing, twirled, using
TRAPEZE + NOUN
artist, hamate, yo-yo
PREP.
between, down, from, on
Definitions
noun
1
A trapezium.
2
A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.
3
The trapezium bone.
[…] the distance between the top of the flexor retinaculum and an imaginary line drawn between the trapeze and the hamate.
4
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.
verb
1
To swing on or as on a trapeze.
name
1
A mountain on the Courbet Peninsula, Grande Terre, Kerguelen Islands of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
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[…] the distance between the top of the flexor retinaculum and an imaginary line drawn between the trapeze and the hamate.
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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.
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Important geometric figures, that are triangle, square, rectangle, circle, parallelogram and trapeze.
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The artist was hung upside down from the trapeze.
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Tom is a trapeze artist.
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In many of the places he visited there were Y. M. C. A. gymnasiums, and there Joe paid a small fee for the privilege of using the trapeze or the bars.
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