trap

trap
trap1
noun
1》 a device or enclosure designed to catch and retain animals.
2》 an unpleasant situation from which it is hard to escape.
    ↘a trick betraying someone into acting contrary to their interests or intentions.
3》 a container or device used to collect a specified thing.
    ↘a curve in the waste pipe from a bath, basin, or toilet that is always full of liquid to prevent the upward passage of gases.
4》 a bunker or other hollow on a golf course.
5》 the compartment from which a greyhound is released at the start of a race.
6》 a device for hurling an object such as a clay pigeon into the air to be shot at.
7》 a light, two-wheeled carriage pulled by a horse or pony.
8》 informal a person's mouth: keep your trap shut!
9》 (traps) informal (among jazz musicians) drums or percussion instruments.
verb (traps, trapping, trapped)
1》 catch (an animal) in a trap.
2》 prevent from escaping.
    ↘catch (something) somewhere so that it cannot be freed.
3》 trick into doing something.
Derivatives
trap-like adjective
Origin
OE træppe (in coltetræppe 'Christ's thorn'); related to MDu. trappe and med. L. trappa, of uncertain origin.
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trap2
verb (traps, trapping, trapped) [usu. as adjective trapped] archaic put trappings on (a horse).
Origin
ME: from the obs. noun trap 'trappings', from OFr. drap 'drape'.
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trap3
(also traprock)
noun N. Amer. basalt or a similar dark, fine-grained igneous rock.
Origin
C18: from Swed. trapp, from trappa 'stair' (because of the often stair-like appearance of its outcroppings).

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  • trap — trap1 [trap] n. [ME trappe < OE træppe, akin to treppan, to step, Ger treppe, stairway < IE * dreb , to run, step, trip (var. of base * drā ) > Pol drabina, ladder] 1. any device for catching animals, as one that snaps shut tightly when… …   English World dictionary

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  • Trap — Trap, n. [Sw. trapp; akin to trappa stairs, Dan. trappe, G. treppe, D. trap; so called because the rocks of this class often occur in large, tabular masses, rising above one another, like steps. See {Tramp}.] (Geol.) An old term rather loosely… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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