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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.
- She is an enigma wrapped in a riddle trapped in a really bad haircut. Times, Sunday Times
- 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.
- Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post – September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power. 'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
- Khadse made headlines when he was brought in to trap panthers after 13 people were attacked and killed by the animals.
- I just wanted to make a few comments about the sand trap that I'll call perspectival relativism.
- Population is extrapolated using the revised UN estimates, which give a figure of 1, 272.2 million;
- 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.
