Definition of Trap

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Definition of Trap

Trap

To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.

An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock.

Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.

A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.

Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.

A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at.

The game of trapball.

A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids.

A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.

A wagon, or other vehicle.

A kind of movable stepladder.

To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.

Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.

To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.

To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.

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Trap Quotations

A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.
Mitch Hedberg

The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.
Jerry Garcia

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
John Steinbeck

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
Paulo Coelho

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.
William Bernbach

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith

And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him.
John Travolta

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
Jacques Derrida

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.
Clay Aiken

Trap Translations

trap in Dutch is slag, valstrik, val
trap in Italian is tranello
trap in Latin is laqueum, forca, laqueus, decipio
trap in Portuguese is armadilha
trap in Spanish is trampa

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