Word Finder - traps

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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.

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A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.

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To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).

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The trapezius muscle.

Where thickest, the traps are at least 6000 ft.

No man could cross the meadow alive without knowing where the traps lay.

He pumped his arms hard, ignoring the cries of three men as they fell into pits or were snapped up by traps with iron teeth.

In the vicinity the Oneida Community manufactures chains and animal traps.

Yes, that neat little trinket is a source of constant magic that traps us.

To save a village from a powerful demon fox, top ninja the Fourth Hokage traps the demon fox, top ninja the Fourth Hokage traps the demon inside newborn Naruto.

Enormous numbers of animals are caught, chiefly in traps, to supply the demand of the fur trade, Siberia and North America being the principal localities from which they are obtained.

Not sure what traps Czerno might have set.

Ahead of him, the woman seemed to know the safe path through the hidden traps he'd discovered during his observation of the city walls.

They say that traps are inhumane and don't always kill the animal straight away, so they often bleed to death.

Sticky traps have openings at both ends with the inside surface covered with a very sticky adhesive and slow-release food attractant.

They take various forms from colored sticky traps to pheromone lure attractant traps.

Fly traps with a bait attractant may prove useful in dealing with localized problems.

Street Players search for Uncle Roy through the back streets, the tourist traps and the leafy boulevards of Westminster using a handheld computer.

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The barrage traps high water creating a head of water, like a hydroelectric dam.

Traps at the front and back gate dielectric interfaces, as well as traps in the body of the dielectric are considered.

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

Also in the chamber is a fume filter that traps the solder fumes that can harden on cooling and block the pumps.

The traps were placed among mature heather on ground that is usually wet in winter.

To make up for this several hornets put in an appearance at the traps to liven up the evening's proceedings.

The traps are totally indiscriminate, and are killing our wildlife.

There are some good traps and secrets to keep things interesting, albeit with some walk-through walls.

But you can probably get close if your orchard hygiene is impeccable and if you use traps for coddling moths and apple maggots.

The dark film, known as desert varnish, traps microbes and other life forms in its sticky surface.

So be careful, take your time and watch out for the traps that catch many unsuspecting motorists.

Big thick traps set things off and he has very full pecs, wide lats and a small waist.

The fields are combination traps contained in Paleogene deep-water sandstone reservoirs.

Ockenden is focusing its efforts on helping the returnees rebuild their lives, and prevent them from falling into the traps of the past.

The big eye acts as a Kelly's eye and traps the bow shackle when the dan wire is fully paid out.

These traps will only attract slugs from a nearby area.

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The undigested fat also traps water in the feces, resulting in pale, bulky, greasy stools which are difficult to flush away.

But they are poor at defining stratigraphy and hence at finding fields resident in stratigraphic traps.

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The group also leads several programs in novel optical traps (laser tweezers and spanners) and active holographic devices.

These ' exhibits ' include night urinals, refuse pits and grease traps.

This allows a much higher density of traps, much more action, and still feels vast in practice.

Venus fly traps is not to keep them water logged.

Smartness in avoiding traps is one of the most distinctive traits in the character of the species; but when a trap has once claimed its victim, and is consequently no longer dangerous, the fox is always ready to take advantage of the gratuitous meal.

Petya was carried out like a log and laid in the larger of the two traps.

The big eye acts as a Kelly 's eye and traps the bow shackle when the dan wire is fully paid out.

The upper lakes intended to act as silt traps are also shallow and any water passing through them warms up before entering the lake.

Use slug traps filled with beer or milk instead of pellets.

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The tame ducks were tethered at the entrance of the traps and the more ' calling ' the ducks did the better.

The tank traps were on the coast during WWII.

We also handle other types of moored instrument such as thermistor chains or sediment traps.

Traps Do Not Always Kill For the animals who remain alive in the traps, further torture awaits them when the trappers return.

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