Definitions for trap
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trapnoun

   a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned

2. trapnoun

   drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas

3. trap, snarenoun

   something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares

   "the exam was full of trap questions"; "it was all a snare and delusion"

4. trapnoun

   a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters

5. ambush, ambuscade, lying in wait, trapnoun

   the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise

6. trap, cakehole, hole, maw, yap, gobnoun

   informal terms for the mouth

7. trapnoun

   a light two-wheeled carriage

8. bunker, sand trap, trapverb

   a hazard on a golf course

9. trap, pin downverb

   place in a confining or embarrassing position

   "He was trapped in a difficult situation"

10. trap, entrap, snare, ensnare, trammelverb

    catch in or as if in a trap

    "The men trap foxes"

11. trapverb

    hold or catch as if in a trap

    "The gaps between the teeth trap food particles"

12. trap, pin, immobilize, immobiliseverb

    to hold fast or prevent from moving

    "The child was pinned under the fallen tree"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trapnoun

   A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.

2. Etymology: trappe, from træppe (also in betræppan) from trap-. Akin to trappa, trappe, treppe (Treppe "step, stair"), treppan. Connection to "step" is "that upon which one steps". trappe and trampa are ultimately borrowings from.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. TRAPnoun

   Etymology: trappe , Saxon; trape, Fr. trappola, Italian.

   1. A snare set for thieves or vermin.

   Die as thou shouldest, but do not die impatiently, and like a fox catched in a trap. Jeremy Taylor, holy living.

   The trap springs and catches the ape by the fingers. Roger L'Estrange.

   2. An ambush; a stratagem to betray or catch unawares.

   And lurking closely, in await now lay.
   How he might any in his trap betray. Edmund Spenser.

   God and your majesty
   Protect mine innocence, or I fall into
   The trap is laid for me. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   They continually laid traps to ensnare him, and made sinister interpretations of all the good he did. Edmund Calamy.

   He seems a trap for charity to lay,
   And cons by night his lesson for the day. Dryden.

   3. A play at which a ball is driven with a stick.

   Unruly boys learn to wrangle at trap, or rook at span-farthing. John Locke, on Education.

   He that of feeble nerves and joints complains,
   From nine-pins, coits, and from trap-ball abstains. King.

2. To Trapverb

   Etymology: trappan , Saxon.

   1. To ensnare; to catch by a snare or ambush; to take by stratagem.

   My brain, more busy than the lab’ring spider,
   Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies. William Shakespeare.

   If you require my deeds, with ambush’d arms
   I trapp’d the foe, or tir’d with false alarms. Dryden.

   2. [See Trapping.]To adorn; to decorate.

   The steed that bore him
   Was trapp’d with polish’d steel, all shining bright,
   And covered with th’ atchievements of the knight. Edmund Spenser.

   To spoil the dead of weed is sacrilege:
   But leave these reliques of his living might
   To deck his hearse and trap his tomb black steed. Fa. Qu.

   Lord Lucius presented to you four milk-white horses trapt in silver. William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.

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1. Trap

   Trap is a song by Colombian singer Shakira released as the fourth official single from El Dorado on 26 January 2018. The track features Colombian singer Maluma, who had previously worked with Shakira on "Chantaje", the lead single of El Dorado and the remix of Shakira and Carlos Vives' single "La Bicicleta", also included on El Dorado.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Trapverb

   to dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses

2. Trapnoun

   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. Trapadjective

   of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike

4. Trapnoun

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

5. Trapnoun

   fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares

6. Trapnoun

   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

7. Trapnoun

   the game of trapball

8. Trapnoun

   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

9. Trapnoun

   a place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet

10. Trapnoun

    a wagon, or other vehicle

11. Trapnoun

    a kind of movable stepladder

12. Trapverb

    to catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes

13. Trapverb

    fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap

14. Trapverb

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

15. Trapverb

    to set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver

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1. Trap

   Trap is the second studio album of the Belgian rock band Dead Man Ray. It was released in 2000.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Trap

   trap, n. an instrument for snaring animals: an ambush: a stratagem: a contrivance for hindering the passage of foul air from a waste-pipe, &c.: a trap-door: any rickety structure: a carriage, a vehicle: (slang) a policeman.—v.t. to catch in a trap:—pr.p. trap′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. trapped.—ns. Trap′-ball, an old game played with a ball or bat and trap; Trap′-door, a door in a floor shutting like the catch of a trap; Trap′-fall, a trap-door which gives way beneath the feet; Trap′per, one who traps animals for their fur, &c.; Trap′piness, the state of being trappy or unsafe; Trap′ping; Trap′-stair, a stair or kind of ladder surmounted by a trap-door.—adj. Trap′py, treacherous. [A.S. træppe; cog. with Old High Ger. trapa, a snare (whence Fr. trappe, by which the Eng. word has been modified).]

2. Trap

   trap, n. a term loosely applied to many rocks of volcanic origin, so called because lying often in steps or terraces.—adjs. Trap′pēan, Trap′pous, Trap′py.—ns. Trap′-tū′fa, -tuff, a variety of tufa consisting of the detrital matter of trap-rock. [Sw. trapp—trappa, a stair.]

3. Trap

   trap, v.t. to drape or adorn with gay clothes: to ornament:—pr.p. trap′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. trapped.—n. a horse-cloth: (pl.) one's personal belongings, luggage.—n.pl. Trap′pings, gay clothes: ornaments, esp. those put on horses. [Fr. drap—Low L. drappus, cloth; cf. Drab, Drape.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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).

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1. trapverb

   to sell drugs. a trap is a drug house that has all the windows and doors(besides main entrance) boarded, making it a TRAP

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1. TRAP

   What does TRAP stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the TRAP acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Animal
   • Carriage
   • Design
   • Device
   • Drain
   • Hold
   • Mechanical Device
   • Mouth
   • Surprise Attack

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'trap' in Nouns Frequency: #2063

2. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'trap' in Verbs Frequency: #712

Anagrams for trap »

1. prat

2. rapt

3. part

4. tarp

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of trap in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of trap in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of trap in a Sentence

1. Deputy Prime Minister Yannis Dragasakis:

   The country is in a position like that of Sisyphus — a man condemned to roll a boulder to the top of a hill, only to see it roll down again, we risk condemning an entire generation to a future without hope. To avoid that, what we ask from our eurozone partners is to treat Greece as an equal and help us escape from this Sisyphean trap.

2. Elizabeth Warren:

   You know, that is the trap question for women, if you say,' Yeah -- there was sexism in this race,' everyone says,' Whiner.' And if you say,' No, there was no sexism,' about a bazillion women think,' What planet do you live on ?'.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   I believe calling it what it is … radical jihadis, let's not fall into the trap of thinking that all of our Muslim-American neighbors in this country are somehow our enemies here. They are our first line of defense. … We need our Muslim-American neighbors to stand up and to be a part of this.

4. Paul Beatty:

   If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

5. Angelica Varela:

   The black-footed ferrets prey on prairie dogs so it was once thought that elimination programs for the dogs, considered a nuisance to farmers and ranchers, were impacting the ferret population. Now, there was a concerted effort by the state to rebuild the black-footed ferret population. On a recent day, volunteers made their way to small-town Seligman and met for training on the first night inside a rented home in a rural neighborhood that Arizona Game and Fish uses for the operation. One of those volunteers is Robert Coonrod, who bought a pick-up truck and rigged it with overhead lights specifically for the night-time searches. Robert Coonrod has been volunteering for five years. Though hes not a biologist, he enjoys helping out wildlife and found a new photography hobby while volunteering. HUNTERS TURN TO HIPSTERS TO HELP BOOST SPORTS DECLINING NUMBERS One of the volunteers is Robert Coonrod, who bought a pick-up truck and rigged it with overhead lights specifically for the night-time searches. ( Fox News) Were looking for a ferret to be outside his hole. We drive down, he gets curious, looks at the lights, you see the green eyes shine, and then its off to the races, Robert Coonrod said. Once the animalis spotted, volunteers run towardit and set up a trap. But they have to first hopscotch around prairie dog burrows that dot the landscape. Sometimes it can be very entertaining watching people run across a prairie dog colony because youre so focused on the ferret that you forget about all these holes on the ground, Holly Hicks said. Yeah, every one of us has tripped and fallen in a prairie dog hole after chasing after a ferret. ARIZONA MAN PICKED UP NEWBORN FAWN, TOOK IT TO LOCAL BAR, OFFICIALS SAY With freezing temperates on the first night of the search, around 10 of the volunteers showed up, including Arizona State Univerisity biology graduate Angelica Varela, who will soon be starting an internship with Bird Conservancy of the Rockies. With freezing temperates on the first night of the search, around 10 of the volunteers showed up( Fox News)( When I started) volunteering( for other wildlife organizations) and really getting boots on the ground and realizing the hard work that actually goes into it, its really important and its really satisfying being able to know that you had a part in helping a species, as conservation work, I mean were doing this so that eventually we dont have to keep doing it. Angelica Varela drove up from Phoenix with Angelica Varela friend, Brandi Kapos, who is an Olive Garden waitress and an Arizona State Univerisity conservation biology graduate. Shes looking to return to school to get a masters degree in Geographic Information Systems. Before Angelica Varela and Brandi Kapos got their assignment from Jennifer Cordova for the night, they said they had energy drinks and candy. Angelica Varela said Angelica Varela was pumped. With freezing temperates on the first night of the search, around 10 of the volunteers showed up, including Arizona State Univerisity biology graduates Angelica Varela and Brandi Kapos. ( Fox News) Jennifer Cordova said the goal is to get the black-footed ferret off the endangered species list. Fox News important because wildlife dont have a say -- theydont have a voice out there, Holly Hicks said. So, its people like us who manage and try to keep that voice out there and people aware. Our passion comes from a lot of places. We love animals. We want to see wildlife in the future for future generations. Only found in North America, this wild animal differs from the European pet ferrets that are domesticated. The black-footed ferret was once thought extinct until 18 were found in 1981. Since then, recovery and breeding efforts have helped the black-footed ferret population grow. I kind of feel like its our duty.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=trap
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Trap
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=trap
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trap
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=trap
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=trap
8. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Trap