English Explanatory Dictionary

trap

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
  2. A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
  3. A (usually fictional) location or feature originally added to a map to detect plagiarism and copyright violations by other map makers or map services.
  4. Someone with male-typical anatomy who passes as female.
  5. A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's ostensible gender; otokonoko, josou.
  6. An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
  7. Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
  8. A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
  9. A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.
  10. A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids.
  11. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
  12. A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
verb
  1. To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
  2. To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
  3. To provide with a trap.
  4. To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; to travel for the purpose of trapping.
  5. To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
  6. To leave suddenly, to flee.
  7. To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
  8. To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.
  9. Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.
  10. To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.
noun
  1. A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
verb
  1. To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
noun
  1. The trapezius muscle.
noun
  1. Acronym of targeted regulation of abortion providers.
  2. Acronym of training-repayment-agreement provision.
  3. Initialism of twin reversed arterial perfusion.

Pronunciation

trăp /tɹæp/ [t̠ɹ̠̊˔æp] [t̠ɹ̠̊˔ap] [t̠ɹ̠̊˔äp] [t̠ɹ̠̊˔ɛp] en-us-trap.ogg en-au-trap.ogg

Word forms

trap traps trapping trapped

Etymology

From Middle English trappe, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”) (also in betræppan (“to trap”)) from Proto-West Germanic *trappjā (“trap, snare”), from Proto-West Germanic *trappjan (“to step”), from Proto-Germanic *trapjaną (“to tread, stamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *drebʰ- (“to step, trip, trample”). Cognate with Dutch trap (“step, stair”), German Low German Trapp (“step, stair”). Akin also to West Frisian traap (“stepping, treading, stairway”), German Treppe (“step, stair”), Old English træppan (“to step, tread”). Connection to "step" is "that upon which one steps". French trappe and Spanish trampa are ultimately borrowings from Germanic.

Synonyms

snare fang trap music vagina

Antonyms

bolter

Related words

entrap entrapment trapping trip-trap trap set

Derived words

around the traps belly trap debt trap diplomacy fall into a trap flowline trap fly out of the traps hash-trap heffalump trap live-trap pony and trap race out of the traps trap ball trap bar trap-bath split trap car trap crop trapdoor trap house trap maker trap music trap nest trap phone trap points trap-pop traps case trap set trap shoot trap stairs trap street trap yard betrap trap and trace trap in trap out trappean trappous trappy TRAP law

Translations

Arabic: فَخّ Arabic: فخ Armenian: ծուղակ Armenian: որոգայթ Bulgarian: капа́н Bulgarian: сифо́н Catalan: trampa Catalan: parany Catalan: sifó Chinese Mandarin: 陷阱 Chinese Mandarin: 圈套 Ngazidja Comorian: mgala Dutch: val Dutch: waterslot Dutch: zwanenhals Estonian: lõks Finnish: ansa Finnish: koppi Finnish: heitin Finnish: pesä Finnish: hajulukko Finnish: vesilukko French: piège French: traquenard French: souricière French: siphon German: Falle German: Siphon German: Geruchsverschluss Greek: παγίδα Greek: σιφώνι Hungarian: csapda Hungarian: hajítógép Hungarian: bűzelzáró Hungarian: szifon Irish: dol Italian: trappola Italian: tranello Japanese: 罠 Latin: rēte Macedonian: стапица Malayalam: കെണി Māori: pehipehi Middle English: trappe Old English: fealle Polish: pułapka Polish: zasadzka Polish: syfon Portuguese: armadilha Portuguese: cilada Portuguese: arapuca Portuguese: sifão Romanian: capcană Russian: лову́шка Russian: западня́ Russian: капка́н Russian: сифо́н Scottish Gaelic: ribe Slovak: pasca Spanish: trampa Spanish: trampucheta Spanish: sifón Spanish: sifa Swedish: fälla Swedish: vattenlås Tamil: வலை Tarifit: anday Ottoman Turkish: طوزاق Ottoman Turkish: قپان Walloon: atrape Swahili: mtego Czech: sifon Czech: zápachová uzávěrka Danish: vandlås Norwegian Bokmål: vannlås Norwegian Nynorsk: vasslås Khiamniungan Naga: vēuháutsīe
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