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US
/ˈtɹæp/
]
[ UK /tɹˈæp/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈæp/ ]
NOUN
- a light two-wheeled carriage
- informal terms for the mouth
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something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares
the exam was full of trap questions
it was all a snare and delusion - a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters
- drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas
- a hazard on a golf course
- the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise
- a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
VERB
-
place in a confining or embarrassing position
He was trapped in a difficult situation -
catch in or as if in a trap
The men trap foxes -
to hold fast or prevent from moving
The child was pinned under the fallen tree -
hold or catch as if in a trap
The gaps between the teeth trap food particles
How To Use trap In A Sentence
- You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival? Does George Lucas think the world will end in 2012?
- Sadly, none of a myriad of ingenious contraptions, despite inventors' claims, puts forth more energy than it absorbs.
- Part of the problem in making extrapolations from these patterns to build a theory is that the relationship between language and social structure may vary considerably, both synchronically and diachronically.
- She is an enigma wrapped in a riddle trapped in a really bad haircut. Times, Sunday Times
- I just wanted to make a few comments about the sand trap that I'll call perspectival relativism.
- Through her suit, Suzie Nova felt the diamantine exterior of the alien contraption throb faintly below her feet, alive with incomprehensible energies that course through it like blood through arteries.
- With no warning signs on either side and under poor lighting, the road is a death trap for motorists.
- He was a strapping lad with broad shoulders and quite tall.
- The pilot straps himself to this bulky rig in a standing position, controlling it with joysticks during vertical takeoff and landing - or VTOL, as we say in the hover biz.
- Reconditioned radiator or cooling system refilling ( possibly under filled or air trapped in system ).