trap
IPA: trˈæp
noun
- A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
- A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
- (by extension, cartography, law, technical) A (usually fictional) location or feature originally added to a map to detect plagiarism and copyright violations by other map makers or map services.
- A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
- (now rare) A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.
- A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
- The game of trapball itself.
- Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
- A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids.
- A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
- (aviation, military, slang) A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
- (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
- (slang) A person's mouth.
- (slang) Synonym of vagina
- (slang, archaic) A policeman.
- (in the plural, archaic) Belongings.
- (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
- (gun sports) Trapshooting.
- (geology) A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
- (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
- (Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
- (US, slang, African-American Vernacular, also attributive) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
- (US, slang, African-American Vernacular, also attributive) An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.
- (music, uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
- (slang, informal, sometimes offensive, sometimes derogatory) Someone who is anatomically male but who passes as female.
- (slang, informal, sometimes considered offensive) A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's ostensible gender; otokonoko, josou.
- (slang, uncountable) The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.
- A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
- (slang, bodybuilding, anatomy) The trapezius muscle.
- (US, legislation) Acronym of targeted regulation of abortion providers.
- (employment law) Acronym of training-repayment-agreement provision.
- (medicine) Initialism of twin reversed arterial perfusion.
verb
- (transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
- (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
- (transitive) To provide with a trap.
- (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; to travel for the purpose of trapping.
- (aviation, military, slang, intransitive) To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
- (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
- (US, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular, intransitive) To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.
- (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
- (mining, dated) To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.
- (slang, informal, sometimes offensive) Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.
- To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
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Examples of "trap" in Sentences
- The miser is trapped inside.
- The mouse was caught in trap.
- The soul is trapped in the body.
- That can be a trap for the unwary.
- They adopted the trappings of punk.
- Are there still traps set for the unwary
- The malaise trap can also function as a light trap.
- Follow the trappings of religiosity and there you will be trapped.
- The spider hunts on the ground and often gets caught in pitfall traps.
- There is a sand trap on the leftside of the fairway in the middle of the hole.
- Meshal predicted that the conditions, which he called a trap for the Quartet itself, would change.
- Another trap is the soapbox; when I look at failed drafts, I see how comfortable I am on the soapbox.
- First out of the trap is a fellow Kansai blogger, sleepytako, a name that already suggests slow times!
- The _house trap_ is a deep seal trap placed inside the foundation wall, and intersects the house drain and house sewer.
- "We put what we call a trap on the web site where we can tell each I-address that comes in to the web site," Klein said.
- They understood that Ryan Fitzpatrick tends to lock onto his first receiver and one of his interceptions came against what they call trap coverage.
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- "Robinson Crusoe" presents another trope for the putatively split human mind as its own trap, only here the trap is agoraphobic rather than claustrophobic as in "Die Zelle":
- Cleeve in a high-wheeled vehicle which he called his trap, he had determined, being then in a frame of mind somewhat softer than was usual with him, to tell all his troubles to his mother.
- The term trap refers to a processor's mechanism for capturing an executing thread when an exception or interrupt occurs and transferring control to a fixed location in the operating system.