Dictionary Entry
trap
trap is a 4-letter English word with 27 senses as transitive verb, noun, adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 27 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.
- 2noun
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.
- 3adjective
Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.
- 4noun
A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.
- 5noun
Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
The game of trapball.
- 8noun
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.
- 9noun
A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
- 10noun
A wagon, or other vehicle.
- 11noun
A kind of movable stepladder.
- 12transitive verb
To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.
- 13transitive verb
Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
- 14transitive verb
To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.
- 15intransitive verb
To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.
- 16noun
the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise
- 17noun
a hazard on a golf course
Synonyms
- 18noun
a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
- 19noun
a light two-wheeled carriage
- 20noun
a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters
- 21noun
drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas
- 22noun
informal terms for the mouth
- 23noun
something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares
"the exam was full of trap questions"
"it was all a snare and delusion"
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- 24verb
to hold fast or prevent from moving
"The child was pinned under the fallen tree"
Synonyms
- 25verb
catch in or as if in a trap
"The men trap foxes"
- 26verb
hold or catch as if in a trap
"The gaps between the teeth trap food particles"
- 27verb
place in a confining or embarrassing position
"He was trapped in a difficult situation"
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