Trap

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.
 * 1) A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense.
 * Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny.
 * 1) A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
 * Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.
 * 1) A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball; the game of trapball itself.
 * 2) Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
 * They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap.
 * 1) 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.
 * 2) A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
 * 3)  A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
 * Have James prepare the trap – I wish to visit the parson.
 * 1) A kind of movable stepladder.
 * 2)  A persons' mouth.
 * To ask a person not to reveal any information
 * Keep your trap shut.
 * 1)  belongings
 * 2) * 1870, Mark Twain, Running for Governor,
 * ...his cabin-mates in Montana losing small valuables from time to time, until at last, these things having been invariably found on Mr. Twain's person or in his "trunk" (newspaper he rolled his traps in)...
 * 1)  An arguably convincing crossdresser, transvestite or transsexual, a person born with male genitalia that one engages in a relationship with, believing that person to have been born with female genitalia.
 * I saw your brother asking a trap out last night at the bar.
 * 1)  An exception generated by the processor.
 * 2)  A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.

Synonyms

 * snare

Derived terms

 * activity trap
 * beartrap/bear trap
 * booby trap
 * bus trap
 * firetrap
 * fish-trap
 * honey trap


 * mantrap
 * mousetrap
 * offside trap
 * optical trap
 * rattletrap
 * tourist trap
 * trapdoor

Verb

 * 1)  To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.
 * 2)  To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
 * 3)  To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe.
 * 4)  To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.
 * 5)  To leave suddenly, to flee.
 * 6)   To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.

Noun

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

Adjectives for Trap
unyielding; baited; palpable; dramatic; dreaded; ridiculous.

Verbs for Trap
bait—; circumvent—; elude—; evade—; inveigle into—; lure into—; mask—; spring —; warn of—; —beguiles; —claws; —decoys; —deludes; —dupes; —ensnares; — grasps; —gulls; —hoaxes; —masks; — menaces.

Thesaurus
Dionaea, French door, John Law, allure, allurement, ambuscade, ambush, ambushment, archway, artifice, back door, bag, bait, bait the hook, baited trap, barway, bazoo, beguile, birdlime, blind, bobby, booby trap, bulkhead, bull, carriage entrance, catch, catch out, catch up, cellar door, cellarway, chaps, charm, chops, come-on, confine, conspiracy, constable, deadfall, deathtrap, deceive, deception, decoy, decoy duck, device, door, doorjamb, doorpost, doorway, drawcard, drawing card, dupe, embouchure, endearment, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, enticement, entoil, entrap, enweb, face, feint, firetrap, flytrap, fool, foul, front door, gab, gambit, gate, gatepost, gateway, gendarme, gin, gob, ground bait, harpoon, hatch, hatchway, hold, hook, hook in, imprison, intrigue, inveigle, inveiglement, jaw, jaws, jowls, keep, kisser, land, lasso, lime, lintel, lips, lock, lure, lurking hole, machination, mandibles, maneuver, maw, maxilla, mesh, mine, mole trap, mousetrap, mouth, mug, mush, muzzle, nail, net, noose, oral cavity, paddy, peeler, pitfall, plot, ploy, police, porch, portal, porte cochere, postern, premaxilla, propylaeum, pylon, rattrap, rope, row, ruse, sack, scuttle, seducement, set gun, shadowing, side door, snag, snare, snarl, sniggle, spear, spread the toils, spring gun, springe, stalking-horse, stile, storm door, stratagem, subterfuge, surveillance, take, tangle, tangle up with, temptation, threshold, tollgate, trap door, trapfall, trick, trip, turnpike, turnstile, wile, wind, yap

Etymology 1
trappe: from træppe: (also in betræppan "to trap") from. 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.

Etymology 2
From trapp, from trappa ‘stair’.

Noun

 * Armenian: թակարդ,, որոգայթ
 * Czech: ,
 * Estonian: püünis, lõks
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 * French: ,
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 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: (, wana)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ته‌ڵه‌
 * Lithuanian: spąstai


 * Luhya:
 * Macedonian: стапица
 * Malay: jerat
 * Meru:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:, potrzask
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , (leghold trap), силок (noose trap)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
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 * Estonian: lõks
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 * Japanese: (, wana)
 * Macedonian: стапица
 * Polish:, zasadzka
 * Portuguese:, cilada
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 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Polish: klapa


 * Portuguese: alçapão
 * Russian:


 * Greek:
 * Polish: boks startowy; wyrzutnia


 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: hajulukko
 * French:


 * Polish: syfon


 * French: charrette anglaise


 * Polish: dwukółka


 * Polish:


 * French:


 * Polish: gęba


 * Finnish:


 * : kurth
 * : 陷阱 (xiànjǐng)
 * : val (1,2), trapladder  (8)
 * : Falle
 * : trappola (1,2)
 * : trappola (1,2)


 * : 덫 (deoch, deot), 함정 (陷穽, hamjeong)
 * : armadilha
 * : cursă
 * : pasca (1,2), lesť  (2)
 * : trampa, cepo
 * : fälla

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian:


 * Polish: łapać
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: ajaa ansaan
 * French:
 * Italian:


 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:


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 * Swahili:


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 * : atrapar

Related terms

 * entrap
 * entrapment

Anagrams

 * part
 * prat
 * rapt
 * tarp

Noun

 * 1) stair, staircase
 * 2) kick
 * 3) bustard
 * 4) degree

Derived terms

 * vergelijkende trap (4)
 * overtreffende trap (4)
 * stellende trap (4)

Anagrams

 * prat