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.

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1. trap

   A trap is a device or setup that is intended to catch, deceive, or harm individuals or animals as a means of control or prevention. It can also refer to a situation where one is tricked or coerced into a potentially harmful circumstance.

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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

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Anagrams for trap »

1. prat

2. rapt

3. part

4. tarp

How to pronounce trap?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say trap in sign language?

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. Russell Henley:

   It is a blast playing the 'Bear Trap' and those holes are really visually intimidating, i'm excited to play them again.

2. Sven Spichiger:

   We’ll now be setting traps in the area and encouraging citizen scientists to trap in Snohomish and King counties, none of this would have happened without an alert resident taking the time to snap a photo and submit a report.

3. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren:

   That is the trap question for every woman.

4. Eric Moutet:

   Conspiracy or not, I don't know, what is clear is that they were enticed into a trap.

5. Prashant Agarwal:

   It's been said that we achieve only if we expect something and have desire to achieve it, but if we start over expecting and are not happy to what have been achieved, then instead of building a positive approach to our success we tend to fall back and instead of writing our success story, we write the story of our own catastrophe. Then finally we trap ourselves in circle of self pity.

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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. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trap
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=trap
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=trap
9. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Trap
10. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=trap