Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word TRAP

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Definitions of TRAP

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.
2. A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
3. A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
4. The game of trapball itself.
5. Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
6. 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.
7. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
8. To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
9. A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
10. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
11. (by extension, cartography, law, technical) A (usually fictional) location or feature originally added to a map to detect plagiarism and copyright violations by other map makers or map services.
12. (now, rare) A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.
13. (aviation, military, slang) A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
14. (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
15. (slang) A person's mouth.
16. (slang) Synonym of vagina
17. (slang, archaic) A policeman.
18. (in the plural, archaic) Belongings.
19. (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
20. (geology) A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
21. (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
22. (Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
23. (US, slang, AAVE, also, attributive) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
24. (US, slang, AAVE, also, attributive) An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.
25. (music genre, uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
26. (slang, informal, sometimes, _ , offensive, sometimes, _ , derogatory) Someone who is anatomically male but who passes as female.
27. (slang, informal, sometimes consideredoffensive) A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's ostensible gender; otokonoko, josou.
28. (slang, uncountable) The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.
29. (transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
30. (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
31. (transitive) To provide with a trap.
32. (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; to travel for the purpose of trapping.
33. (aviation, military, slang, intransitive) To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
34. (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
35. (US, slang, informal, AAVE, intransitive) To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.
36. (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
37. (mining, dated) To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.
38. (slang, informal, sometimesoffensive) Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.
39. (slang, bodybuilding, anatomy) The trapezius muscle.
40. (employment law) Acronym of training-repayment-agreement provision.
41. Acronym of targeted regulation of abortion providers.
42. (medicine) Initialism of twin reversed arterial perfusion.
43. (gun sports) Trapshooting.

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Examples of Using TRAP in a Sentence

• Dark star (Newtonian mechanics), a star that has a gravitational pull strong enough to trap light under Newtonian gravity.
• A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums in popular music context) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and sometimes other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person.
• In digital computers, an interrupt (sometimes referred to as a trap) is a request for the processor to interrupt currently executing code (when permitted), so that the event can be processed in a timely manner.
• Although the plot is very close to that of the 1945 film Twice Blessed, The Parent Trap is based on the 1949 German children's novel Das doppelte Lottchen by Erich Kästner.
• In other words, humans had a propensity to use abundance for population growth rather than for maintaining a high standard of living, a view and stance that has become known as the "Malthusian trap" or the "Malthusian spectre".
• The drummer's equipment includes a drum kit (or "drum set" or "trap set"), which includes various drums, cymbals and an assortment of accessory hardware such as pedals, standing support mechanisms, and drum sticks.
• A magnetic mirror, also known as a magnetic trap or sometimes as a pyrotron, is a type of magnetic confinement fusion device used in fusion power to trap high temperature plasma using magnetic fields.
• Fault (computing), also called a trap or an exception, a type of interrupt in software or operating systems.
• The style is most associated with the early 1990s dance music scene when DJs played at illegal events in musical styles dominated by electronic dance music from a wide range of sub-genres, including drum and bass, dubstep, trap, break, happy hardcore, trance, techno, hardcore, house, and alternative dance.
• Macedonian forces led by Perseus of Macedon trap a Roman army led by Consul Quintus Marcius Phillipus near Tempe, but the Macedonians fail to take advantage of their resulting superior tactical position.
• Nicias refuses, but the Syracusans and Spartans under Hermocrates are able to trap the Athenians in the harbour and the Athenians sustain heavy losses in the Battle of Syracuse.
• Following a string of poorly received films—Lady in the Water (2006), The Happening (2008), The Last Airbender (2010), and After Earth (2013)—he experienced a critical and commercial career resurgence with The Visit (2015), Split (2016), Glass (2019), Old (2021), Knock at the Cabin (2023), and Trap (2024).
• The Painter Reservoir Field was discovered in 1977 from the 407 m thick Nuggest Sandstone which forms an anticline structural trap in the hanging wall of the Absaroka thrust plate, at a depth of about 3 km.
• During the summer seasons they would cache their cooking utensils, leave their tepees standing and go northward into Minnesota to hunt and trap.
• The trap rock which underlays most of the park contains granite intrusions which has caused some fracturing.
• Castleberry is also known for its "speed trap" with the confiscation of property happening on a regular basis.
• Tour guides dress in period attire and trap beavers, make buckskins, knap arrowheads, and work the forge.
• The Metacomet Ridge, a mountainous trap rock ridgeline that stretches from Long Island Sound to nearly the Vermont border, runs through the center of the town, cutting off Salisbury Plain to the east, which used to lie under the ancient, glacial Lake Hitchcock.
• The west side of Middlefield is flanked by the Metacomet Ridge, a mountainous trap rock ridgeline that stretches from Long Island Sound to nearly the Vermont border.
• People would know it was that specific alligator because of his distinctive footprints, being it only had two toes on one of its legs due to a steel animal trap that failed to capture it.

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