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English Dictionary: trap	by the DICT Development Group
9 results for trap
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
trap n a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares; "the exam was full of trap questions"; "it was all a snare and delusion" Synonym(s): trap, snare a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise Synonym(s): ambush, ambuscade, lying in wait, trap informal terms for the mouth Synonym(s): trap, cakehole, hole, maw, yap, gob a light two-wheeled carriage a hazard on a golf course Synonym(s): bunker, sand trap, trap v place in a confining or embarrassing position; "He was trapped in a difficult situation" Synonym(s): trap, pin down catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes" Synonym(s): trap, entrap, snare, ensnare, trammel hold or catch as if in a trap; "The gaps between the teeth trap food particles" to hold fast or prevent from moving; "The child was pinned under the fallen tree" Synonym(s): trap, pin, immobilize, immobilise
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trap \Trap\, v. t. [AS. treppan. See {Trap} a snare.] 1. To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes. 2. Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap. [bd]I trapped the foe.[b8] --Dryden. 3. To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th {Trap}, 5.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trap \Trap\, v. i. To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trap \Trap\, a. Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trap \Trap\, n. [OE. trappe, AS. treppe; akin to OD. trappe, OHG. trapo; probably fr. the root of E. tramp, as that which is trod upon: cf. F. trappe, which is trod upon: cf. F. trappe, which perhaps influenced the English word.] 1. A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes. She would weep if that she saw a mouse Caught in a trap. --Chaucer. 2. Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares. Let their table be made a snare and a trap. --Rom. xi. 9. God and your majesty Protect mine innocence, or I fall into The trap is laid for me! --Shak. 3. 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. 4. The game of trapball. 5. 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. 6. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet. 7. A wagon, or other vehicle. [Colloq.] --Thackeray. 8. A kind of movable stepladder. --Knight. {Trap stairs}, a staircase leading to a trapdoor. {Trap tree} (Bot.) the jack; -- so called because it furnishes a kind of birdlime. See 1st {Jack}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trap \Trap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trapped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trapping}.] [Akin to OE. trappe trappings, and perhaps from an Old French word of the same origin as E. drab a kind of cloth.] To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses. Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering. --Chaucer. To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed. --Spenser. There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold. --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trap \Trap\, n. [Sw. trapp; akin to trappa stairs, Dan. trappe, G. treppe, D. trap; -- so called because the rocks of this class often occur in large, tabular masses, rising above one another, like steps. See {Tramp}.] (Geol.) 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}. {Trap tufa}, {Trap tuff}, a kind of fragmental rock made up of fragments and earthy materials from trap rocks.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
trap 1. n. A program interrupt, usually an interrupt caused by some exceptional situation in the user program. In most cases, the OS performs some action, then returns control to the program. 2. vi. To cause a trap. "These instructions trap to the monitor." Also used transitively to indicate the cause of the trap. "The monitor traps all input/output instructions." This term is associated with assembler programming (`interrupt' or `exception' is more common among {HLL} programmers) and appears to be fading into history among programmers as the role of assembler continues to shrink. However, it is still important to computer architects and systems hackers (see {system}, sense 1), who use it to distinguish deterministically repeatable exceptions from timing-dependent ones (such as I/O interrupts).
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
trap 1. A program interrupt, usually an interrupt caused by some exceptional situation in the user program. In most cases, the OS performs some action, then returns control to the program. 2. To cause a trap. "These instructions trap to the monitor." Also used transitively to indicate the cause of the trap. "The monitor traps all input/output instructions." This term is associated with assembler programming ("interrupt" or "exception" is more common among {HLL} programmers) and appears to be fading into history among programmers as the role of assembler continues to shrink. However, it is still important to computer architects and systems hackers (see {system}, sense 1), who use it to distinguish {deterministic}ally repeatable exceptions from timing-dependent ones (such as I/O interrupts). [{Jargon File}]