Word Finder - trap

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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.

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I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.

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• snare

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A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.

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Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny.

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A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.

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Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.

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A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.

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A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball

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The game of trapball itself.

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Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.

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They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap.

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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.

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

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A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.

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A person's mouth.

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Keep your trap shut.

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(in the plural) Belongings.

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A cubicle (in a public toilet).

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I've just laid a cable in trap 2 so I'd give it 5 minutes if I were you.

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Trapshooting.

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A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.

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An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.

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A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.

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A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold. (Also used attributively to describe things which are used for the sale of drugs, e.g. "a trap phone", "a trap car".)

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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.

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A trans woman, transfeminine person, or crossdressing man.

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A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.

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• trap music

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The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.

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To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.

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to trap foxes

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To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.

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To provide with a trap.

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to trap a drain

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To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game

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trap for beaver

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To leave suddenly, to flee.

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To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.

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To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.

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To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.

You could never trap me.

They can have my trap, or else what is to become of them?

Let's go get your rattle trap home.

And what was worse, now he thought she was setting a trap for him.

Rather than piss off the White God, Xander sensed he'd walked into a trap of some sort.

He didn't sit on her and when he leaned forward to trap her wrists, he was gentle but firm about it.

She hesitated, though, not wanting to walk into another trap of Harmony's death dealers.

The snow seems to trap me, as it does with the small squirrel I am watching from my window.

Passing back from the centre of the web to the underside of an adjoining leaf or some other sheltered spot runs a single thread, the trap line affording passage to the spider to and from the sheltered spot and the snare itself.

In this region the sandstone rocks are generally overlaid with heavy black soil formed from the decaying trap, which is principally devoted to the cultivation of the spring crops, wheat and grain, while rice and hill millets are sown in the lighter and more sandy soils.

This trap is capable of slow dropping pigeons to fast springing teal.

A huntsman was sent to Otradnoe for a trap, while Nicholas rode with Natasha and Petya to "Uncle's" house.

Berg drove up to his father-in-law's house in his spruce little trap with a pair of sleek roans, exactly like those of a certain prince.

Did you get caught in a trap?

Trap appears here and there in intrusive dykes.

He stumbled unawares upon the revolt of a proud national spirit, evolved through ten historic centuries; and the trap of Bayonne, together with the enthroning of Joseph Bonaparte, made the contemptible prince of the Asturias the elect of popular sentiment, the representative of religion and country.

They work by constructing a rubble mound structure to temporarily trap tidal flows.

The goblet cells and the glands constantly secrete mucous, which serves to moisten the inhaled air and trap dust and bacteria.

A codling moth trap, for example, uses a pheromone placed on a sticky floor.

Initially, natural pheromones, extracted from females, were used to trap males.

Pierre choked, his face puckered, and he turned hastily away, went back to his trap muttering something to himself as he went, and took his seat.

They find him just in time to help him escape the trap that 's been set.

The first thing you must do is to trap the cat.

Zamon's conversation with her about Darkyn tricking his predecessor left her feeling like she walked into a trap when she made the deal with Past-Death.

The Picts used a bit of tactical guile and lured the Northumbrians into a trap with deadly results.

On his return, the king devised yet one more trap for him, laying an ambush, with picked men of Lycia.

To avoid pulling oil droplets through, an oil trap was placed inside the crankcase breather.

Australian researchers have already repaired torn cartilage on the knees of 10 sheep with this natural glue, which frogs use to trap insects.

Vertical ducts should be fitted with a condensation trap and a weather proof cowl of sufficient free area for the air volume.

Their solution was the fitting of one of their hydraulic dampers; model HB 28 to every trap door.

The dialog does occasionally fall into the trap of being overly descriptive with the worst offender being during Gary Russell's cameo appearance.

Hygiene e.g. if nail is not sterilized and degreased, may trap dirt and lead to fungal infections.

The entrance to the crypt is currently through a trap door in a timber floor which otherwise obscures the steps of the entrance.

I have now worked out how to trap it inside my bedside drawers to wear it at night.

They flee the error of presuming on God only to fall into the trap of being gripped by an anxious dread of God.

We have lent Maria one of our traps so that she can trap any females and they can be neutered at Martina's clinic.

The ore was so fine-grained that the mechanical methods of concentration then in use could not trap it.

On the other hand, a filter with tiny pores can trap small particles at the expense of inhibiting fluid flow.

You were betrayed by your group - cannon fodder to trigger the trap they knew had been set for them.

Creating francium artificially has not been a problem; however, it has been a major challenge to trap francium atoms and study them.

Gully pots The primary purpose of gully pots The primary purpose of gully pots is to trap sediment associated with road run-off.

A trap is placed over a nest and the incubating bird triggers it to close when it returns to incubate.

Once inside the trap, the male moths become contaminated with sufficient fungal inoculum to guarantee that they become infected.

The program executes instructions until a trap, exception, or any breakpoint is reached.

This provision is new, and is designed to avoid a conveyancing trap that such reversionary leases may create.

This was one where a portable loo was placed above the trap door below.

This non-drying adhesive catches and retains warehouse moths, which are attracted into the trap by the pheromone lure provided with the locator.

Bringing most of on the two threat to economic growth trap Mabel by.

The trap is jumped between three positions 6 m m apart, and a single microsphere is trapped at each location.

Without good pond filtration your pond filtration your pond will sooner or later become a death trap for your fish.