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Definition: Trap |
TrapNoun1. A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned. 2. Drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas. 3. Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares; "the exam was full of trap questions"; "it was all a snare and delusion". 4. A device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters. 5. The act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise. 6. Informal terms for the mouth. 7. A light two-wheeled carriage. 8. A hazard on a golf course. Verb1. Place in a confining or embarrassing position; "He was trapped in a difficult situation". 2. Catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes". 3. Hold or catch as if in a trap; "The gaps between the teeth trap food particles". 4. To hold fast or prevent from moving; "The child was pinned under the fallen tree". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trap" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Computing | 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). Source: Jargon File. |
Aerospace | A part of a solid-propellant rocket engine used to prevent the loss of unburned propellant through the nozzle. (references) |
Building | A bend in a water pipe to hold water so gases will not escape from the plumbing system into the house. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of setting a trap, denotes that you will use intrigue to carry out your designs. If you are caught in a trap, you will be outwitted by your opponents. If you catch game in a trap, you will flourish in whatever vocation you may choose. To see an empty trap, there will be misfortune in the immediate future. An old or broken trap, denotes failure in business, and sickness in your family may follow. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | A site where an otherwise mobile carrier can be trapped for some time. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A localised energy level in the forbidden band of a semiconductor caused by the presence of a lattice imperfection. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | An inshore fishing apparatus consisting of a series of funnels, with their mouths kept open by hoops, opening into each other and finally closing into a sack forming a trap. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | A part in a solid-propellant rocket motor that holds the grain in place. One of a family of grain retention devices. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Any dark-colored fine-grained nongranitic rock, such as a basalt, peridotite, diabase, or fine-grained gabbro; also applied to any such rock used as crushed stone. Syn:trapp; traprock; trappide. CF:whinston b. A device for separating suspended sediment from flowing water; e.g., a sand trap c. A door used for cutting off a ventilating current and that is occasionally opened for haulage or passage. See also:trapdoo d. A device to separate denser material from less-dense material, such as entrained water in a stream or a compressed-air line e.g., a sand trap. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | TRAP. To understand trap; to know one's own interest. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Trap (O. Eng. treppe or traeppe, properly a step, as that or which an animal places its foot and is caught, cf. Ger. Treppe flight of stairs), a mechanical device for the snaring or catching anything, and especially wild animals. Traps for animals are of great antiquity, and no savage people has ever been discovered, whatever its culture scale, that did not possess some variety of snare. In the most primitive form of trap no mechanism need be present, e.g. a cavity into which the animal walks, as the pitfall of the Arabs and Africans or the snow-hole of the Inuit. Dr O. T. Mason has divided traps into three classes: enclosing traps, which imprison the victim without injury; arresting traps, which seize the victim without killing it, unless it be caught by the neck or round the lungs; and killing traps, which crush, pierce or cut to death.Enclosing traps include the pen, cage, pit and door-traps. Pentraps are represented by the fences built in Africa into which antelopes and other animals are driven: and by fish-seines and poundnets. Among cage-traps may be mentioned bird-cones filled with cern and smeared with bird-lime, which adhere to the bird?s head, blinding it and rendering its capture easy; the fish-trap and lobster-pot; and the coop-traps, of which the turkey-trap is an example. This consists of a roofed ditch ending in a cul-de-sac into which the bird is led by a row of corn-kernels. Over the further end a kind of coop is built; the bird, instead of endeavouring to retrace its steps, always seeks to escape upward and remains cooped. Pitfalls include not only those dug in the earth, at the bottom of which knives and spears are often fixed, but also several kinds of traps for small animals. One of these consists of a box near the top of which a platform is hung, in such a way that, when the animal leaps upon it to secure the bait, it is precipitated into the bottom of the box, while the platform swings back into place. Another kind of pitfall is formed of a sort of funnel of long poles, into which birds fall upon alighting on a perfectly balanced bar, to which a dish of corn is made fast. The door-traps form a large and varied class, ranging in size from the immense cage with sliding door in which such beasts as tigers are caught, to the common box-trap for mice or squirrels, the door of which falls when the spindle upon which the bait is fixed is moved. The box-trap with a simple ratchet door, allowing the animal or bird to push under the door or wires which fall back and imprison them, is alike an enclosing and an arresting trap.
There are four general classes of arresting traps, the mesh, the set-hook, the noose and the clutch. The mesh-traps include the mesh and thong toils used of old for the capture of the lion and other large game, and the gill-net in the meshes of which fish are caught by the gills. To the set-hook division are reckoned the set-lines of the angler, several kinds of trawls and the toggle or gorge attached to a line, which the animal, bird or fish swallows only to be held prisoner. The noose-trap class is a very extensive one. The simplest examples are the common slip-noose snares of twine, wire or horsehair, set for birds or small mammals either on their feeding grounds or runways, the victim being caught by the neck, body or foot as it tries to push through the noose. When the noose is used with bait it is generally attached to a stout sapling, which is bent over and kept from springing back by some device of the "figure-4" kind. This is constructed of three pieces of wood, one of the horizontal spindle on which the bait is placed, one of the upright driven into the ground, and the third the connecting cross-piece, fitted to the others so loosely that only the strain of the elastic sapling keeps the trap together. When the victim tries to secure the bait he dislodges the cross-piece and is caught by the noose, which is spread on the ground under the bait. The Patagonians take the vicuna with one variety of this snare, and, before the moose (Cervus alces) was protected by law in North America, even that animal, weighing often 1200 lbs, was caught in snares of wire and rope. There are two widely different types of clutchtraps: bird-lime and other tenacious substances, and jaw and claptraps. The simplest form of the first is adhesive fly-paper. A common practice in Italy is to smear with bird-lime the branches in the neighbourhood of a captive owl, which results in the capture of numbers of birds, gathered to scold at their common enemy. Examples of the clap-trap are the clap-net, consisting of two nets laid flat on the ground and attached to cords in such a manner that they fly up and close when the draw-cord is pulled by a concealed trapper; and the various other spring-traps used by bird-catchers.
The jaw-traps are the most important class of device for the capture of fur-bearing animals, and are the product of civilization. While rude specimens are known to have existed in the middle ages, the steel-trap as used to-day dates from the middle of the 18th century, and reached perfection in the latter half of the 19th, the "Newhouse," named from the American inventor, having been the first trap of high grade. Steel-traps consist of two jaws, with or without teeth, which are worked by powerful single or double springs and are "sprung" when the victim steps upon the "pan," which is placed between the jaws and attached to a lever. They are made in many sizes, from the smallest, designed for rats, to the "Great Bear Tamer," weighing over 40 lbs, with jaws of 16 in. in which lionss, tigers and grizzly bears are trapped. The steel-trap is set and concealed in such a manner that the animal must step on its pan in passing over it to secure the bait. In trapping such wary animals as the sable, marten, mink, otter or beaver, great care is taken to obliterate all signs of the trap and of human presence, the scent of the hands being neutralized by smoking the traps or avoided by the use of gloves. In North America castoreum, musk, asafoetida, oil of anise and common fish oil are used to entice the victims to the traps. Trails of some one of these scents are laid from different directions to the trap.
With the clutch-traps must also be reckoned the oldest form of steel-trap, now to be seen only in museums, the man-trap, which was used first about the middle of the 18th century when the systematic preservation of game rendered protection against poachers a necessity. Such a trap, from Gloucestershire, is over 6 ft. long, has 19-in. serrated jaws and weighs 88 lbs. Another form of man-trap, the spring-gun, belongs to the next category, the killing traps, which are divided into traps of weight, point and edge. The most important of the weight class is the dead-fall, of which the typical form consists of a pen over whose narrow entrance one or more logs are laid across a lighter log, which is balanced upon a spindle necessarily struck by the entering animal, causing the logs to fall upon its back. In some cases the bait is attached to the spindle itself. The dead-fall was always the favourite trap of the American Indians, and is in use among many aboriginal tribes in Africa and South America. A slab of stone is often used as a weight. The common mouse-trap which kills either by a blow or strangulation is a variety of dead-fall. Of point-traps may be mentioned those of the impaling and the missile classes. An example of the former is the stake or spear placed by Arab and African tribes at the bottom of pitfalls for big game. Another impaling trap common in Africa is the harpoon down-fall, generally used for the hippopotamus. It consists of a heavily weighted harpoon suspended in such a way that the animal, passing beneath, breaks a cord and precipitates the harpoon upon itself. Another example of impalement is the hawk-trap, consisting of a circle of stout sharp wires, in the centre of which a live fowl is placed. A bird of prey attempting to secure the fowl is impaled upon the wires. Of missile traps the most universal are the ancient springbow and its modern representative the spring-gun. This is fixed upon stakes, or against a tree, with a line attached to the trigger and stretched immediately in front of the muzzle. An animal pressing against the string pulls the trigger and discharges the piece into its own body. An arrangement of sticks holding the bait in front of the muzzle is sometimes substituted for the string. Of edge-traps a curious example is the wolf-knife of Western America, which consists of a very sharp blade embedded in frozen fat. One of the wolves, licking the fat, cuts its tongue and a flow of blood ensues, with the result that not only the wolf itself but its companions become infuriated by the smell and taste, and the wounded beast, and often many of the others, are killed and devoured. The Alaskan knife-trap for large game consists of a heavy blade attached to a lever, which, when released by the animal biting at the bait, flies over and kills the victim.
from a 1911 encyclopedia
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Animal trap."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TRAP | English | Tracker Analysis Program | N/A |
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Synonyms: TrapSynonyms: ambuscade (n), ambush (n), bunker (n), gob (n), hole (n), lying in wait (n), maw (n), sand trap (n), snare (n), yap (n), ensnare (v), entrap (v), immobilise (v), immobilize (v), pin (v), trammel (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ambush | Pitfall; (source of danger); trap; (snare). |
Lie in ambush; (hide oneself); lie in wait for, lurk; set a trap for; (deceive); ambuscade, ambush. | |
Amusement | Athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism; (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell. |
Closure | (hinder); bar, bolt, stop, seal, plumb; choke, throttle; ram down, dam, cram; trap, clinch; put to the door, shut the door. |
Cunning | Art, artifice; device, machination; plot; (plan); maneuver, stratagem, dodge, sidestep, artful dodge, wile; trick, trickery; (deception); ruse, ruse de guerre; finesse, side blow, thin end of the wedge, shift, go by, subterfuge, evasion; white lie; (untruth); juggle, tour de force; tricks of the trade, tricks upon travelers; espieglerie; net, trap. |
Danger | Threaten danger; run one hard; lay a trap for; (deceive). |
Deception | Snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe, springle; noose, hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb, net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime; dionaea, Venus's flytrap; ambush; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom; spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery; mine; flytrap; green goods; panel house. |
Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble. | |
Dupe | Verb: be deceived; be the dupe of; fall into a trap; swallow the bait, nibble at the bait; bite, catch a Tartar. |
Pitfall | Precipice; maelstrom, volcano; ambush; pitfall, trapdoor; trap; (snare). |
The Drama | Stage, scene, scenery, the boards; trap, mezzanine floor; flies; floats, footlights; offstage; orchestra. |
Unskillfulness | Not know what one is about, not know one's own interest, not know on which side one's bread is buttered; stand in one's own light, quarrel with one's bread and butter, throw a stone in one's own garden, kill the goose which lays the golden eggs, pay dear for one's whistle, cut one's own throat, bum one's fingers; knock one's head against a stone wall, beat one's head against a stone wall; fall into a trap, catch a Tartar, bring the house about one's ears; have too many eggs in one basket (imprudent), have too many irons in the fire. |
Vehicle | Dogcart, trap, whitechapel, buggy, four-in-hand, unicorn, random, tandem; shandredhan, char-a-bancs. |
Velocity | Log, log line; speedometer, odometer, tachometer, strobe, radar speed detector, radar trap, air speed gauge, wind sock, wind speed meter; pedometer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | There is no way out of that canyon, Théoden is walking into a trap. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Nice booby trap. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price) I always think everything could be a trap, which is why I'm still alive (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman) Never tell the villain how to trap you in a cage (Freakazoid!; writing credit: Alan Burnett; Paul Dini) A crevice in which to cower, only scuttling from the shadows to devour a victim already ensnared in your cowardly trap. But you've made the mistake of leaving me unbound, and it is you who must succumb to my will (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver; writing credit: Amy Hennig) | |
Lyrics | Set a trap, they're not to blame (Rasputin; performing artist: BONEY M) It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap ("Born to Run"; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) I've seen you fall into the same trap (Something So Strong; performing artist: Crowded House) And if yo' ass get cracked, bitch shut yo' trap (The Next Episode; performing artist: Dr. Dre) We're caught in a trap (Suspicious Minds; performing artist: Elvis Presley) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Spy Trap (1972) The Trap of Cougar Moutain (1972) How to Trap a Woodpecker (1971) Booby Trap (1970) The Venus Trap (1970) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "Paul Trap" (movie) by Thomas Leisner. The droplet in the center is oscillating. Use DPGraph's Scrollbar to vary A or B. |  | Sea oats are one of the important plants found on the sand dunes within Canaveral National Seashore. The sea oats trap the sand as it blows in from the beach and allows the sand dunes to grow. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Humpback whale feeding - straining water out to trap krill in baleen. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Preparing a mid-water sediment trap for deployment in the Ross Sea. For collecting biological particles as they fall to the sea floor. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | A bluefin tuna caught in the trap at Stintino. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Group of tuna in the eastern chamber of the trap at Favignana. Depth 22 meters. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Sampling with a fish trap. The trap holds typical specimens of fish found in Sachuest Marsh including Mummichogs and American eels. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Dave Meyer conducts a throw trap sample of high marsh tide pools on the remnant islands of the Poplar Island archipelago. The collection will help to determine the types and number of small fish and invertebrates that use the tide pools. The collection was looking to determine which species exist in the tide pools where there is no threat from predation. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Green moray eel caught in a fish trap eats the other inmates. Gymnothorax sp. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Diver relocates a fish trap used for transplant experiments. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
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| "Rusted Trap" by Terry Eaton Commentary: "Rusted trap on a rock by the sea. Venice, Florida, U.S.A." | "Conch Shells" by Shawn Sutherland Commentary: "Sea shells for sale at a tourist trap in Florida." |
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Louis A. Allen | A plan is a trap laid to capture the future. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Thenardier felt what the wolf feels the moment when he finds himself seized and crushed by the steel jaws of the trap. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | With consummate skill he has set his trap with a hair springe to catch comfort and independence, and then, as he turned away, got his own leg into it. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Gently brush your tongue, which can trap germs. (references) | |
The tunica albuginea helps to trap the blood in the corpora cavernosa, thereby sustaining erection. (references) | ||
When tissue thickens, it may trap nerves, causing carpal tunnel syndrome, characterized by numbness and weakness of the hands. (references) | ||
Economic History | Zimbabwe | Caught in a domestic debt trap, the country has seen a decline in terms of trade and in confidence in its prospects. (references) |
Slovenia | Upon achieving independence, Slovenia offered citizenship to all residents, regardless of ethnicity or origin, avoiding a sectarian trap that has caught out many central European countries. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bolivia | On October 7, a 9-year-old girl was injured severely by a booby trap apparently intended for security forces; a man was arrested and charged with involvement in the incident. (references) |
Indigenous People | Canada | The nonaborignal fishermen sparked violence by cutting Burnt Church lobster trap lines and damaging aboriginal property. (references) |
Worker Rights | Brazil | Victims often are charged exorbitant prices for transportation and lodging, prices that figure into the overall debt used to trap them in forced labor. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DIE, n. The singular of "dice." We seldom hear the word, because there is a prohibitory proverb, "Never say die." At long intervals, however, some one says: "The die is cast," which is not true, for it is cut. The word is found in an immortal couplet by that eminent poet and domestic economist, Senator Depew: A cube of cheese no larger than a die May bait the trap to catch a nibbling mie. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | This is the time to reform this outmoded social dinosaur and finally break the poverty trap. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Together, we have resisted the trap of appeasement, cynicism and isolation that gives temptation to tyrants. |
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| "Trap" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.31% of the time. "Trap" is used about 1,464 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 78.31% | 1,147 | 6,687 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 16.51% | 242 | 19,213 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.02% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Noun (common) | 1.02% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,464 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "trap": acoustic trap ♦ adsorptive trap ♦ Air trap ♦ be taken in a trap ♦ Bell trap ♦ blunder into a trap ♦ boob trap ♦ booby trap ♦ breath trap ♦ clean out trap ♦ cold trap ♦ death trap ♦ drain trap ♦ dust trap ♦ fall into a trap ♦ fall into the trap ♦ fish trap ♦ Gas trap ♦ get caught in a radar trap ♦ grit trap ♦ gulley trap ♦ humane trap ♦ impurity trap ♦ interface trap density ♦ iron trap ♦ jaw trap ♦ lay a trap ♦ lay a trap for ♦ line trap ♦ Lobster trap ♦ make a trap ♦ Meissner trap ♦ mouse trap ♦ mud trap ♦ nitrogen trap ♦ police trap ♦ porosity trap ♦ potato trap ♦ poverty trap ♦ radar trap ♦ refrigerated trap ♦ running trap ♦ sand trap ♦ set a trap ♦ set a trap for ♦ shrimp trap ♦ shut your trap ♦ siphon trap ♦ solar trap ♦ speed trap ♦ spring a trap ♦ steam trap ♦ steel trap ♦ stench trap ♦ stink trap ♦ stratigraphic trap ♦ strench trap ♦ structural trap ♦ tank trap ♦ to set a trap ♦ trace trap ♦ trap block ♦ trap door ♦ trap door entry ♦ trap line ♦ trap net ♦ trap play ♦ trap rock ♦ Trap shooter ♦ trap shooting ♦ trap snare or gin ♦ Trap stairs ♦ Trap tree ♦ Trap tufa ♦ Trap tuff ♦ walk into a trap ♦ waste trap ♦ Wolf Trap. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "trap": trap-and-drain auger, trap-breaching, trap-door, trap-door function, trap-door spider, trap-doors, trap-line, trap-maker, trap-nesting. | |
Ending with "trap": booby-trap, clap-trap, death-trap, man-trap, mouse-trap, p-trap, rat-trap, sun-trap. | |
Containing "trap": Bear-trap dam. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
animal trap | 1,517 | music trap | 121 |
mosquito trap | 1,456 | rabbit trap | 100 |
wolf trap | 1,353 | rat trap | 99 |
venus fly trap | 792 | live trap | 94 |
trap | 593 | minnow trap | 90 |
mouse the trap | 385 | lobster trap | 90 |
fly trap | 334 | wasp trap | 89 |
mouse trap car | 274 | music t.i trap | 88 |
tiger trap | 273 | fish trap | 84 |
the parent trap | 234 | snake trap | 80 |
mole trap | 218 | buick tiger trap | 79 |
trap shooting | 195 | squirrel trap | 75 |
booby trap | 178 | mosquito trap propane | 67 |
grease trap | 178 | crawfish trap | 66 |
speed trap | 170 | mosquito trap review | 64 |
crab trap | 152 | gopher trap | 62 |
trap turtle | 146 | snmp trap | 61 |
steam trap | 131 | insect trap | 61 |
lentek mosquito trap | 123 | bear trap | 61 |
cat trap | 122 | sparrow trap | 57 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "trap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zbukuroj (adorn, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, bespangle, bespread, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, festoon, flatter, Flavor, flavour, garnish, gild the pill, glorify, inlay, intersperse, landscape, ornament, pink, prettify, set with, smarten up, stud, touch up, trick out, trim, water down), zë në grackë (ensnare, entrap), stolis (adorn, array, bedizen, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, enchase, ornament, prank, tire, trick up, trim), plaçkë (belongings, chattel, clobber, cloth, loot, plunder, quarry, spoil, stuff, swag, things), ngre kurthe, lak (halter, lasso, loop, mesh, necklace, noose, slipknot, tag, thong), kurth (corral, deadfall, decoy, gin, hook, mantrap, mesh, net, noose, pitfall, plant, rat-trap, snare, springe, wile), karrocë e lehtë (pushcart), kap në grackë (ensnare, snare), kaloshin (buggy, carriole, carryall, chaise, cutter, gig, hansom cab), grackë (booby trap, cobweb, deadfall, decoy, gin, hook, mantrap, mesh, net, noose, pitfall, rat-trap, snare, springe), bagazh (baggage, luggage, trunk). (various references) | |
Arabic | فخ (gin, snare), كمين (ambuscade, ambush, snare, wait), مصيدة, مربع الإنطلاق, نصب شركا (snare), وقع في الشرك (decoy, entangle, fall for, track down, trick), حقائب (bags), حصر (enclose, incarcerate, incarceration, inclose, intercept, limitation, pin, pocket, restrict, restriction, straiten), سحارة (siphon, syphon), عاق (baffle, balk, block, cramp, delay, derange, detain, deter, dirty, discourage, disloyal, disturb, embarrass, encumber, estop, handicap, hinder, hobble, hurt, impede, impious, interrupt, penalize, preclude, prevent, retard, set back, shackle, stifle, thankless, thwart, tie up, trammel, undutiful, ungrateful, unthankful), عربة بدولابين, الشرك, شرك (booby trap, catch, cobwebby, decoy, entanglement, gin, hook, let smb. into, mantrap, morass, net, paneling, pitfall, polytheism, snare, trammel). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | клопка (ambush, booby trap, gin, net, pitfall, snare, toils, web), полицай (bluebottle, bull, constable, cop, copper, flatfoot, fuzz, grass, gumshoe, jemadar, patrolman, peace officer, peeler, pendant, peon, pig, pointsman, police officer, policeman, rozzer, runner, shamus, slop), покривам кон с чул, поставям капан в, поставям сифон на, примка (deadfall, game, halter, loop, mesh, noose, snare), лека двуколка на ресори, моноклинала, отвор в под (trap door), детектив (beagle, detective, eye, gumshoe, investigator, operative, shadow, tec, tracker), вентилационна врата, уста (kisser, mouth, mug, osculum, potato trap, potato-box, puss, rattletrap, rat-trap, throat, yap), капан (ambush, deadfall, death trap, man-trap, mousetrap, net, pit, pitfall, snare, trepan, web), капак в под (trap door), капак в таван (trap door), трап (excavation, hole, pit, vampire), тъмна еруптивна скала, филтър (filter, percolator, sieve), хващам в капан, сифон на мивка, отвор в таван (trap door). (various references) | |
Chinese | 陷井 (Traps), 陷 (to fall), 圈套 , 擭 , 弇 (to cover). (various references) | |
Czech | sifon (air trap, siphon, syphon, water-seal), poklop (cover, trapdoor), past (mantrap, mesh, pit, pitfall, snare), nástraha (ambush, snare), léèka (ambuscade, pitfall, snare), chytit do pasti. (various references) | |
Danish | fælde (snare). (various references) | |
Dutch | val (fall, snare), valstrik (snare), slag (accomplishment, action, agony, battle, blow, expertness, fight, grasp, kind, knock, movement, scuffle, skilfulness, skill, skillfulness, snare, sort, struggle, turn). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kaptilo (snare). (various references) | |
Farsi | فریب دهان , محوطه کوچک , نیرنگ (Art, Artifice, Craft, Deception, Trick, Trickery, Witchcraft), گیر (Embroglio, Fix, Gripe, Hitch, Impasse, Impediment, Jamming, Obstacle, Scrape, Snag), زانوءی مستراح وغیره تله , شکماف , دام (Ambush, Decoy, Grin, Net, Noose, Pitfall, Quicksand, Snare, Toil), دریچ-ه , درتله انداختن , بدام انداختن (Decoy, Ensnare, Entrap, Hook, Inveigle, Nail, Snare, Trepanation). (various references) | |
Finnish | loukku (brake). (various references) | |
French | piège (booby trap, fish trap, impurity trap, trap net, trapping center, trapping centre), trappe (trapdoor), emprisonner. (various references) | |
German | Falle (bed, catch, gin, latch, mantrap, pit, pitfall, snare), fangen (bag, captivate, capture, catch, cope, entrap, grapple, net, snare, tag, take, to catch, to trap, trick). (various references) | |
Greek | παγίδα (catch, gin, noose, snare, springe), παγιδεύω (ensnare, entrap, gin, snare), δόκανο (steel trap). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלכודת (booby trap, decoy, gin, net, snare), מוקש (mine, noose, snare), ללכוד (capture, catch, entrap, hook, hunt down, track down), לכד (capture, net, snare), עוקה (cavity, pit, sump, well), כמנה (ambush, hiding place). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kelepce (bailed hook, dead-fall, gin, net, nett, noose, paddle, pitfall, snare), csapda (ambuscade, ambush, bailed hook, catch, decoy, gin, man-trap, net, nett, noose, pit, pitfall, snare, track). (various references) | |
Indonesian | perangkap (ambush, decoy, gin, pitfall, snare), menjebak, jeratan (noose), jerat (halter, lasso, noose), aring (lasso, snarl). (various references) | |
Italian | trappola (gin, net, pitfall, snare), tranello (booby trap, game, mantrap, snare). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 陥穽 (pitfall), 陥せい (pitfall), 落し穴 (pit, pitfall), 落とし穴 (pit, pitfall), 罠 (snare), トラック競技 (track events, trad, trapping, trash). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おとしあな (pit, pitfall), トラップ , かんせい (accomplishment, cheer, complete, completion, control, dry, dryness, government-manufactured, government-regulated organization or facility etc., inertia, perfection, pitfall, quiet, sense, sensitiveness, sensitivity, shout, shout of joy, snoring sound, tranquil), わな (snare). (various references) | |
Korean | 함정 (Pitfall, Traps). (various references) | |
Manx | trap, shelg lesh ribbaghyn, ribbey lugh, ribbey (entanglement, pitfall; trapping, snare, snaring, spring), gow fo chosh, goaill ayns ribbey (trapping), bac (balk, disability, disqualification, drawback, handicap, moratorium, objection, obstacle, pull back, snag, stay). (various references) | |
Papiamen | trampa (snare). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aptray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | armadilha (booby trap, decoy, decoy-duck, gin, mantrap, mesh, noose, pitfall, pothole, snare, toil, toils), alçapão (drop, noose, pitfall, scuttle, snare, trapdoor). (various references) | |
Romanian | prinde în cursã (gin, mesh), laţ (gin, lath, link, loop, noose, sling, snare, springe, wire), instala trape pe, instala capcane în, dislocaţie, cursã (ambush, chase, course, decoy, drive, errand, gin, journey, pit, pitfall, race, races, ride, riding, run, running, snare, springe, stroke, take in, the dogs, toil), copoi (bloodhound, bull, ferret, hound, nark, nose, Ranger, retriever, slop, tracker), catrafuse (belongings, traps, truck), capcanã (catcher, death trap, decoy, gin, hook, net, noose, pit fall, pitfall, snare, toil, wait), calabalâc (belongings, crowd, things, traps), bloca mingea, aresta (apprehend, arrest, confine, grab, have up, lag, nab, pinch, prison, seize, take into custody), agent de poliţie (beagle, detective, Dick, nark, nose, policeman, shadow, slop), întinde curse, împodobi (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, caparison, deck, deck out, decorate, drape, dress, embellish, encrust, feather, fig, fig out, fringe, garnish, gild, grace, hang with, ornament, pink, prank, robe, set, smarten up, trim). (various references) | |
Russian | сыщик (bloodhound, detective, ferret, nark, plain-clothes man, plainclothesman, plant, sleuth, snoop), ставить ловушки, улавливать, сифон (siphon, syphon), трап (gang-plank, ladder, ramp), капкан (man-trap), внутреннее прерывание, заманивать (allure, allured, bait a trap, ensnare, inveigle, wile), ловушка (booby trap, catch, catcher, cobweb, decoy, entrapment, fall-trap, man-trap, noose, snare, springe), дренажная труба (culvert, drain, drainpipe, tile). (various references) | |
Scottish | gaisde (a trap, a wisp of straw). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaustaviti (arrest, block, halt, hold up, pawl, stall, stem, stop), zateći (catch, find, neap), zamka (bight, catch, deadfall, gin, mesh, noose, pitfall, snare, springe), vrša (kiddle, weir), usta (gob, kisser, mouth, muzzle, orifice, puss), uhvatiti u klopku (entrap), uhvatiti se, rešetka (colander, grating, grid, gridiron, grill, grillage, grille, hatch, lattice, portcullis), postavljati zamke, namamiti (decoy, entice, gain on, lure), lukavstvo (artifice, craftiness, guile, ruse, slyness, trickery, wile), krivina u cevi, klopka (deadfall, mousetrap, noose, pitfall), hvatati (catch, prey, prey on, prey upon, seize), filter (filter). (various references) | |
Spanish | trampa (booby trap, catch, cheat, cheating, deadfall, debt, decoy duck, graft, hatch, hocus pocus, mantrap, pit, pitfall, plant, snare, trapdoor, trick, trickery, try on, wangle). (various references) | |
Sranan | trapu (ladder, snare, staircase, stairs). (various references) | |
Swedish | fälla (bleed, bring down, cast, catch, condemn, convict, couch, cut down, deposit, drop, fell, hand down, hew down, kill, let fall, level, lose, lower, lumber, overthrow, pass, pitfall, precipitate, pronounce, shed, slay, tilt, weep), snara (ensnare, entrap, gin, halter, hook, loop, noose, snare, springe), snärja (ensnare, entrap, snare), fånga (arrest, bag, captivate, capture, catch, corral, engage, enmesh, fetch, fish, grapple, hive, rivet, rope, seize). (various references) | |
Thai | ดักจับ (lay a snare, lay a trap for, lay an ambush). (various references) | |
Turkish | tuzak kurmak (ambuscade, ambush, lay a plot, lay a trap for, set a snare, set a snare for smb., set a trap for, set up, snare), tuzak (a warm corner, ambuscade, ambush, catch, cobweb, come on, complot, decoy, gin, hook, lure, net, noose, snare, springe, toil, toilets, toils, wire), tuzağa düşürmek (ambuscade, circumvent, decoy, enmesh, ensnare, entrap, gin, mesh, net, snare, springe, trammel), kapan kurmak (set a snare, set a trap), ayırıcı (diacritic, discriminating, disjunctive, distinctive, selector, separator, sizer, sorter), dolap (cabal, cabinet, cheating, closet, collusion, cuddy, cupboard, dodge, dope, doubling, flimflam, frame up, game, hutch, imposture, intrigue, jiggery pokery, machination, machinations, maneuver, manoeuvre, ramp, repository, ruse, sell, wardrobe, water wheel, wile), fırlatıcı (launcher, projectile, projector), gaga (beak, bill, nib, rostrate, rostrum), hafif araba, iki kişilik araba (coupe), ağız (accent, beak, beestings, brim, brink, chop, cutting edge, debouchment, dialect, edge, embouchure, gob, jaw, jaws, keen edge, kisser, lip, mouth, muzzle, opening, oral, orifice, outlet, potato trap, stoma, vent, ventage), kapan (gin, snare, springe, wire), yakalamak (account, bag, catch, catch hold of, catch up on, claw hold of, clutch, collar, cop, embrace, entrap, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nobble, overtake, pinch, pull up to, seize, seize on, snap up, snatch, tackle, take, take up), kapana kıstırmak (ensnare, gin, set a snare for smb., snare, wire), kum engeli, oyuna getirmek (hoodwink, play smb. a trick, pull a fast one, surprise, trick), volkanik siyah taş, kapak takmak. (various references) | |
Turkmen | gapan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ставити капкан (set a trap), сищик (bogy, operative, spotter), капкан, заманювати в пастку, люк (hatch, hatchway, heck, manhole, scuttle, trap door), ловити капканом, пастка (await, booby trap, catch, deadfall, decoy, gin, leash, net, noose, save-all, trepan). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ống chữ U máy tung bóng để tập bắn. (various references) | |
Welsh | annel (bending, prop, purpose). (various references) | |
Yucatec | peets' (snare). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | sidug. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | casses, cassis, cassum, decipio, decipula, dolus, forca, laquei, laqueis, laqueo, laqueos, laqueum, laqueus, plaga, plagae, plagam, plagarum, plagas, plagatus, plagis, tendiculas. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | trappe. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 11, Verse 9 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai dabid legei genhqhtw h trapeza autwn eiV pagida kai eiV qhran kai eiV skandalon kai eiV antapodoma autoiV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et David dicit fiat mensa eorum in laqueum et in captionem et in scandalum et in retributionem illis |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And Dauid segð:"Hiera bord sie grin and træppe,hit sie him steotingstan and andgield. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Dauith seith, Be the boord of hem maad in to a gryn bifor hem, and in to catchyng, and in to sclaundre, and in to yeldyng to hem. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And David sayth: Let their table be made a snare to take them with all and an occasion to faule and a rewarde vnto them. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompense to them: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Romans Chapter 11, Verse 9 |
| Cebuano | Ug si David nagaingon: Ang ilang pagpangaon himoang bitik ug lit-ag, usa ka gahong ug usa ka panimalus alang kanila; |
| Croatian | I David veli: Nek im stol pred njima bude zamkom, i mrežom, i stupicom, i plaæom. |
| Danish | Og David siger: "Deres Bord vorde til Snare og til Fælde og til Anstød og til Gengældelse for dem; |
| Dutch | En David zegt: Hun tafel worde tot een strik, en tot een val, en tot een aanstoot, en tot een vergelding voor hen. |
| Finnish | Ja Daavid sanoo: "Tulkoon heidän pöytänsä heille paulaksi ja ansaksi ja lankeemukseksi ja kostoksi, |
| French | Que leur table soit pour eux un piège, Un filet, une occasion de chute, et une rétribution! |
| German | Und David spricht: "Laß ihren Tisch zu einem Strick werden und zu einer Berückung und zum Ärgernis und ihnen zur Vergeltung. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Daud berkata juga, "Biarlah pesta-pesta mereka menjadi perangkap bagi mereka sendiri, dan menjadi lubang, tempat mereka jatuh dan hancur! |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka Daud pun berkata: Biarlah hidangan mereka itu menjadi suatu jerat, dan suatu perangkap, dan suatu alat jatuhan, dan pembalasan kepada mereka itu. |
| Italian | E Davide dice: e un inciampo e serva loro di giusto castigo! |
| Maori | E mea ana hoki a Rawiri, Kia whakatupu mahanga to ratou tepu, hei rore hoki, hei tutukitanga waewae, hei utu ano ki a ratou: |
| Norwegian | Og David sier: La deres bord bli dem til en strikke og en snare og en felle og en gjengjeldelse for dem! |
| Portuguese | E Davi diz: Torne-se-lhes a sua mesa em laço, e em armadilha, e em tropeço, e em retribuição; |
| Rumanian | Wi David zice: ,,Masa lor sq li se prefacq kntr -o cursq, kntr-un lay, kntr-un prilej de cqdere wi kntr -o dreaptq rqsplqtire. |
| Shuar | Tawitcha yaunchu aak Tímiayi: "Tuke Tunáa Túrin ásar namperan najanainiaksha achinkiar ti Asutniáwarti. |
| Swahili | Naye Daudi anasema: "Karamu zao na ziwe mtego wa kuwanasa, waanguke na kuadhibiwa. |
| Swedish | Och David säger: "Må deras bord bliva dem till en snara, så att de bliva fångade; må det bliva dem till ett giller, så att de få sin vedergällning. |
| Uma | Wae wo'o-hawo lolita Magau' Daud owi to mpo'uli': O Pue', kuperapi' bona hawe'ea rasi' to hi tauna toera mpopanawu' -ra lau-mi, duu' -na mporata silaka pai' huku' -ra, bona tepehawai kehi-ra to dada'a. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trap": trapan, trapanned, trapanning, trapans, trapball, trapballs, trapdoor, trapdoors, trapes, trapesed, trapeses, trapesing, trapeze, trapezes, trapezia, trapezii, trapezist, trapezists, trapezium, trapeziums, trapezius, trapeziuses, trapezohedra, trapezohedron, trapezohedrons, trapezoid, trapezoidal, trapezoids, traplike, trapline, traplines, trapnest, trapnested, trapnesting, trapnests, trappean, trapped, trapper, trappers, trapping, trappings, trappose, trappous, traprock, traprocks, traps, trapshooter, trapshooters, trapshooting, trapshootings, trapt. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "trap": bootstrap, caltrap, cantrap, claptrap, deathtrap, entrap, firetrap, flytrap, jockstrap, livetrap, mantrap, mousetrap, rattletrap, rattrap, satrap, strap, unstrap, wentletrap. (additional references) | |
Words containing "trap": allotetraploid, allotetraploidies, allotetraploids, allotetraploidy, autotetraploid, autotetraploidies, autotetraploids, autotetraploidy, bootstrapped, bootstrapping, bootstraps, caltraps, cantraps, claptraps, contraposition, contrapositions, contrapositive, contrapositives, contraption, contraptions, contrapuntal, contrapuntally, contrapuntist, contrapuntists, deathtraps, entrapment, entrapments, entrapped, entrapping, entraps, extrapolate, extrapolated, extrapolates, extrapolating, extrapolation, extrapolations, extrapolative, extrapolator, extrapolators, extrapyramidal, firetraps, flytraps, intraperitoneal, intraperitoneally, intrapersonal, intraplate, intrapopulation, intrapreneur, intrapreneurial, intrapreneurs, intrapsychic. (additional references) | |
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"Trap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atrap, Erap, Krapp, Mrap, Orap, rrap, rtp, tapf, taph, tarap, tarph, teap, thap, thrap, tiap, Tirpak, tlap, toap, torip, tra, traa, Trab, trac, traf, trag, trah, trai, traip, traj, trak, tral, tran, Trapa, trappy, trapt, trapz, traq, trar, traup, trav, traw, trax, traz, trba, treap, treb, treip, trep, tresp, triap, tript, triup, Tropp, trp, trup, twap, twrip, Txapu, tzap, xtra. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "trap" (pronounced tra"p) |
| 4 | t r a" p | entrap, strap. |
| 3 | -r a" p | crap, frap, rap, scrap, unwrap, wrap. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: part, prat, rapt, tarp. | |
| Words within the letters "a-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: apt, art, par, pat, rap, rat, tap, tar. | |
-2 letters: ar, at, pa, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: apart, aport, apter, atrip, parts, party, pater, peart, prate, prats, pruta, sprat, strap, taper, tapir, tarps, tramp, traps, trapt, wrapt. | |
+2 letters: abrupt, armpit, arpent, captor, carpet, cartop, depart, enrapt, entrap, impart, palter, paltry, pantry, parent, parget, parity, parrot, partan, parted, partly, parton, paster, pastor, pastry, paters, patrol, patron, patter, patzer, petard, pirate, plater, portal, prated, prater, prates, preact, pretax, protea, prutah, ragtop, rapist, raptly, raptor, repast, repeat, retape, satrap, sprats, straps, tamper, tapers, tapirs, tapper, tarpan, tarpon, tephra, teraph, threap, tramps, trapan, trapes, trepan, updart, uprate, uptear. | |
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