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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Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs

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

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

It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!
Leonardo DiCaprio

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

I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.
Elliott Smith

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

Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.
Kristin Scott Thomas

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