Used in a Sentence

trapeze

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for trapeze.

Editorial note

My own experience with testing is this: test code is like the safety net under a trapeze act.

Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of trapeze gathered in one view.

noun

A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.

verb

To swing on or as on a trapeze.

noun

A certain yo-yo trick.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for trapeze.

noun

A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.

verb

To swing on or as on a trapeze.

noun

A certain yo-yo trick.

noun

A mountain on the Courbet Peninsula, Grande Terre, Kerguelen Islands of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.

Example sentences

1

My own experience with testing is this: test code is like the safety net under a trapeze act.

2

As the author of Trapeze (spreadsheet like application from way back then) is was nice to be mentioned.

3

But they're showing me that using Google Glass feels like flying a plane or doing the trapeze.

4

Sometimes that cadre snowballs into a circus replete with a marching band, a dancing bear, and a trapeze artist.

5

One of the games was climbing a 50 foot ladder and jumping off (tethered, of course) to catch a trapeze.

6

If your function is regular enough, 2D integration can be done easily by the trapeze method.

7

The biplanes had a big hook on top to latch into the trapeze mechanism, which isn't shown in the movie.

8

The 9->X trapeze act was a colossal success, but in retrospect it was brutally risky.

9

With appropriate safety gear, climb a telegraph pole, jump from the top to a trapeze.

10

Sure if you're a traveling circus and need room to set up your trapeze, then maybe you need more room—but so what?

11

Thankfully we never had an issue with either 4 versions of Trapeze or the 5 of Deltagraph.

12

How does Google Glass help me fly a plane or do the trapeze?

Quote examples

1

Having sailed a 420 competitively, I can confirm that standing out on the trapeze wire whilst on the plane is indeed "a very cool feeling".

2

This is also why you see a lot of copy/pasting, as well as a lot of "internet trapeze artists" - guys who have some schtick of a message they send over and over again (see: profiles where someone pretends to be a deranged killer, an anthropomorphic cat, or whatever insanity gets them noticed).

3

The clowns march for instance, is "Entrance of the Gladiators" from a Czech composer in the 19th century.) The one I saw, they did the guard handover ceremony to "Sobre Las Olas" by Juventino Rosas also from the late 19th century, which is "the flying trapeze" waltz.

Proper noun examples

1

Trapeze was a very different kind of spreadsheet program, more like a cross between a numerical Mathematica and a spreadsheet.

2

Trapeze only needed one floppy but Deltagraph shipped on something like 10 disks.

3

I googled a little and found [1], which speaks highly of Trapeze.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use trapeze in a sentence?

My own experience with testing is this: test code is like the safety net under a trapeze act.

What does trapeze mean?

A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.

What part of speech is trapeze?

trapeze is commonly used as noun, verb.