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Definition of 'trap'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) trap
a contrivance for catching game or other animals, as a mechanical device that springs shut suddenly.

2.  trap
a device, stratagem, or trick for catching a person unawares.

3.  trap
an unpleasant or confining situation from which it is difficult to escape.

4.  trap
any of various devices for removing undesirable substances from a moving fluid, vapor, etc., or for preventing passage of a substance.

5.  trap
an arrangement in a pipe, as a double curve or a

6.  trap
Slang. mouth:
Keep your trap shut.

7.  trap
traps, the percussion instruments of a jazz or dance band.

8.  trap
a device for hurling clay pigeons into the air in trapshooting.

9.  trap
an act or instance of trapping a ball.

10.  trap
a light, horse-drawn carriage.

11. (v.t.) trap
to catch in or as if in a trap; ensnare.

12.  trap
to catch by stratagem, artifice, or trickery.

13.  trap
to stop and hold by or as if by a trap.

14.  trap
to confine or hold without possibility of escape.

15.  trap
to provide with a trap or traps.

16.  trap
to catch (a ball) as it rises after having just hit the ground.

17. (v.i.) trap
to set traps for game.

18.  trap
to engage in the business of trapping animals for their furs.

19.  trap
to work the trap in trapshooting.

20. (v.t.) trap
to furnish with or as if with trappings; caparison.

21. (n.) trap
any of various fine-grained, dark-colored igneous rocks, esp. some form of basalt.

Etymology: (1785–95; < Sw trapp, var. of trappa stair < MLG trappe)

Definition of 'trap'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) trap
a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned

2. (noun) trap
drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas

3. (noun) trap, snare
something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares
"the exam was full of trap questions"; "it was all a snare and delusion"

4. (noun) trap
a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters

5. (noun) ambush, ambuscade, lying in wait, trap
the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise

6. (noun) trap, cakehole, hole, maw, yap, gob
informal terms for the mouth

7. (noun) trap
a light two-wheeled carriage

8. (verb) bunker, sand trap, trap
a hazard on a golf course

9. (verb) trap, pin down
place in a confining or embarrassing position
"He was trapped in a difficult situation"

10. (verb) trap, entrap, snare, ensnare, trammel
catch in or as if in a trap
"The men trap foxes"

11. (verb) trap
hold or catch as if in a trap
"The gaps between the teeth trap food particles"

12. (verb) trap, pin, immobilize, immobilise
to hold fast or prevent from moving
"The child was pinned under the fallen tree"

Definition of 'trap'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) trap
to make sb unable to move or get out of a place
people who were trapped under the collapsed building

2.  trap
to catch sb and make sure they cannot escape
Their plan was to trap the men in the basement and call the police.

3.  trap
to catch an animal in a trap
people who trap small animals

4.  trap
to trick sb
people who are trapped into a 18 month cellphone contract

5.  trap
be trapped
to be unable to escape from a bad situation
families who are trapped in a cycle of poverty and violence

6. (noun) trap
a device used for catching animals
a fox trap

7.  trap
a bad situation sb cannot escape from
the rural poverty trap

8.  trap
a trick used to deceive sb
to fall into a trap

Definition of 'trap'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) trap
of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike

2. (noun) trap
an old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock

3. (noun) trap
a machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes

4. (noun) trap
fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares

5. (noun) trap
a wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at

6. (noun) trap
the game of trapball

7. (noun) trap
a bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids

8. (noun) trap
a place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet

9. (noun) trap
a wagon, or other vehicle

10. (noun) trap
a kind of movable stepladder

11. (verb) trap
to dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses

12. (verb) trap
to catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes

13. (verb) trap
fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap

14. (verb) trap
to provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5

15. (verb) trap
to set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver

Definitions of 'trap'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. trap
1. n. A program interrupt, usually an interrupt caused by some exceptional situation in the user program. In most cases, the OS performs some action, then returns control to the program.

2. vi. To cause a trap. “These instructions trap to the monitor.” Also used transitively to indicate the cause of the trap. “The monitor traps all input/output instructions.”

This term is associated with assembler programming (interrupt or exception is more common among HLL programmers) and appears to be fading into history among programmers as the role of assembler continues to shrink. However, it is still important to computer architects and systems hackers (see system, sense 1), who use it to distinguish deterministically repeatable exceptions from timing-dependent ones (such as I/O interrupts).

Translation of 'trap'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a device for catching animals He set a trap to catch the bear; a mousetrap.
Afrikaans: val	Arabic: مِصْيَدَه، فَخ	Bulgarian: капан
Brazilian: armadilha	Czech: past	German: die Falle
Danish: fælde; -fælde	Greek: παγίδα	Spanish: trampa
Estonian: lõks, püünis	Farsi: تله	Finnish: ansa
French: piège	Hebrew: מַלכּוֹדֶת	Hindi: घात
Croatian: zamka, klopka	Hungarian: csapda	Indonesian: perangkap
Icelandic: gildra	Italian: trappola	Japanese: わな
Korean: 덫	Lithuanian: spąstai	Latvian: slazds; lamatas
Malay: perangkap	Dutch: val	Norwegian: felle, snare
Polish: pułapka	Persian: تله	Pashto: لومه
Portuguese: armadilha	Romanian: capcană	Russian: капкан; мышеловка
Slovak: pasca	Slovenian: past	Serbian: zamka
Swedish: fälla	Thai: กับดัก	Turkish: kapan, tuzak
Taiwanese: 陷阱	Ukrainian: пастка, капкан; сильце	Urdu: جال
Vietnamese: cái bẫy	Chinese: 陷阱
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