trap in English

noun

1

a device or enclosure designed to catch and retain animals, typically by allowing entry but not exit or by catching hold of a part of the body.

All of us must have seen pictures of animals caught in traps , a horrible slow painful death.

2

a situation in which people lie in wait to make a surprise attack.

police deliberately herded 400 demonstrators into a trap and then attacked and arrested them

3

a device for hurling an object such as a clay pigeon into the air to be shot at.

We had to load the clay pigeons into the traps .

4

a light, two-wheeled carriage pulled by a horse or pony.

From his window he could see the Pyramids, but all he wanted to see was a photograph of Tommy, the pony which pulled the trap for the two of them on their last ride together.

5

a person's mouth (used in expressions to do with speaking).

keep your trap shut!

6

percussion instruments, typically in a jazz band.

And, placed with care, the balance between cymbals and traps was perfect.

7

an act of trapping the ball.

8

basalt or a similar dark, fine-grained igneous rock.

This mineral may have been derived from the mafic traprock .

verb

1

catch (an animal) in a trap.

Once he dreamed he was trying to trap foxes but kept catching Dalmatians.

synonyms: confine, cut off, corner, shut in, pen in, hem in, imprison, hold captive

2

put trappings on (a horse, etc.).

gaily trapped mules

noun

snare, net, mesh, deadfall, leghold (trap), pitfall
trick, ploy, ruse, deception, subterfuge, booby trap, ambush, setup
lying in wait, ambuscade, ambush
cakehole, gob, maw, yap, hole
bunker, sand trap
snare

verb

snare, confine, trick, pin down, entrap, immobilize
snare, entrap, ensnare, lay a trap for, capture, catch, bag, corner, ambush
confine, cut off, corner, shut in, pen in, hem in, imprison, hold captive
trick, dupe, deceive, lure, inveigle, beguile, fool, hoodwink, catch, trip up
pin down
entrap, trammel, ensnare, snare
immobilize, pin

Use "trap" in a sentence

1. The poverty trap would become a demographic trap.

2. Trap type

3. Flattery—A Trap

4. It's a trap!

5. Entrapment : This talent no longer works with Immolation Trap or Explosive Trap.

6. 31 synonyms for Ambush: trap, attack, surprise, deceive, dupe, ensnare, waylay, ambuscade, bushwhack, trap

7. It's a bear trap.

8. type of particulate trap

9. The “invisible money” trap.

10. What trap, Your Highness?

11. It's a trap, Stop them!

12. MATERIALISM —THE TRAP THAT CHOKES

13. Beware of the Anorexia Trap!

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15. They set a deadly trap.

16. It is found that the trap effect of the sensitization centers varies from the hole trap to deep electron trap with the change of sensitization conditions.

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18. lean NOx trap/absorber type;

19. Trap one, possible target acquisition.

20. - A looming middle-income trap.

21. An allergen trap is provided.

22. Particulate trap with active regeneration

23. It was a booby trap.

24. Antisense type gene trap vector

25. Use a different bag for each trap (all Arthropods collected in one trap are called a “sample”) and include a label indicating the collected sample’ s corresponding trap site

26. On December 1, 2015 John Trap created a new travel agency, Trap Adventives ink exclusive adventure trips

27. Blackbeard fell victim to a trap

28. That's what's under the trap door.

29. Fatigue—An Unseen Trap for Truckers

30. Yeah, murder by trap doesn't count.

31. We're walking right into a trap.

32. Catching Crawdads using a Trap… A common way to catch Crawdads is to use a Crawdad trap

33. Brailing salmon from a floating trap

34. Noah Centineo posts Athirst trap' picture

35. Type of particulate trap and design:

36. fighting their way into the trap.

37. Recovering from the Trap of Pornography

38. This is likely to be particularly serious if either the poverty trap or the unemployment trap is encountered.

39. Lean NOx Trap (or NOx absorber

40. Lean NOx Trap (or NOx absorber)

41. Type of particulate trap and design: ...

42. The authentic Thai tourist trap experience.

43. Noah Centineo posts Athirst trap' picture

44. Noah Centineo posts Athirst trap’ picture

45. Operation Tourist Trap is a go.

46. A marten died in a trap.

47. type of particulate trap (with or without).

48. Type and design of the particulate trap

49. I always did have a big trap.

50. Each trap was shaped like a box.