1. trap - Noun
2. trap - Adjective
3. trap - Verb
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 dictionaryWe 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