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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
What's the meaning
of loaded here?
"you place bait inside the little tunnel to get the mice inside ... only that there is a spring loaded one-way trap door in the floor of the tunnel. the weight of the mouse on the door would sling it into a separate closed compartment."
"you place bait inside the little tunnel to get the mice inside ... only that there is a spring loaded one-way trap door in the floor of the tunnel. the weight of the mouse on the door would sling it into a separate closed compartment."
Top answer
There should be a hyphen between spring and loaded . adjective - containing a compressed or stretched spring pressing one part against another.
- There should be a hyphen between spring and loaded .
- adjective - containing a compressed or stretched spring pressing one part against another.
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There should be a hyphen between spring and loaded.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
spring-loaded
?adjective - containing a compressed or stretched spring pressing one part against another.
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