trap

Speech parts

1. trap - Noun

2. trap - Adjective

3. trap - Verb

Meaning

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

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.

Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.

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

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

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.

The game of trapball.

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.

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

A wagon, or other vehicle.

A kind of movable stepladder.

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

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

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ambush snare immobilize ensnare entrap trammel capture net catch hook lure bait decoy pitfall booby trap
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Antonyms

deliverance allow release connector emancipation opportunity
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Hypernyms

design hold plan device capture mouth

Hyponyms

flytrap net pit snare gin noose

Phrases with the word

shut one's trap concealed trap trap in shut your trap fly trap trap-and-drain auger

Derivatives

trapped trapping

Anagrams

part rapt prat tarp rtPA

Examples

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap. Anthony Hopkins

Meetings are a great trap. ... they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. John Kenneth Galbraith

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. Christopher Morley

You set the trap when the rat has gone. Rwandan Proverb

The fox advised the others to cut off their tails, because he had left his own in the trap. Italian Proverb

When the poor man sets a trap only his dog gets caught. Cameroon Proverb

Close letter words and terms

tranx tranylcypromine Traore trap and trace trap ball trap block