trap
$ \mathrm{trap}^1 |trap|
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noun
1. a device or enclosure designed to catch and retain animals, typically by allowing entry but not exit or by catching hold of a part of the body.
【鳥獣用の】(ばねじかけの)わな, 落とし穴 «for»
the compartment from which a greyhound is released at the start of a race.
(グレイハウンド競走の)出走ゲート
2. a situation in which people lie in wait to make a surprise attack:
e.g. we were fed false information by a double agent and walked straight into a trap.
a trick by which someone is misled into acting contrary to their interests or intentions:
【人を陥れる】策略, わな «for»
e.g. by keeping quiet I was walking into a trap.
an unpleasant situation from which it is hard to escape:
〖通例単数形で〗(抜け出せない)苦境, 窮地
e.g. they fell into the trap of relying too little on equity financing.
3. with modifier a container or device used to collect a specified thing:
e.g. one fuel filter and water trap are sufficient on the fuel system.
a curve in the waste pipe from a bathtub, sink, or toilet that is always full of liquid and prevents gases from coming up the pipe into the building.
(排水管などの)トラップ〘U/S型で臭気の逆入を防ぐ〙; (燃料システムなどの)トラップ〘水蒸気からできる水などを受ける装置〙.
a bunker or other hollow on a golf course.
｟米｠ 〘ゴルフ〙 バンカー(｟英｠ bunker)
4. a light, two-wheeled carriage pulled by a horse or pony.
〘史〙 (2輪の)軽馬車
5. a device for hurling an object such as a clay pigeon into the air to be shot at.
〘クレー射撃〙 標的飛ばし(装置)
historical (in the game of trapball) the shoe-shaped device that is hit with a bat to send the ball into the air.
6. short for trapdoor.
7. informal a person's mouth (used in expressions to do with speaking):
｟俗｠ 口
e.g. keep your trap shut!
8. (usually traps) informal percussion instruments, typically in a jazz band.
9. US informal a place where drugs are sold:
e.g. a trap full of dealers.
1.0 Baseball & American Football an act of trapping the ball.
〘アメフト〙 トラップ戦術
verb (traps, trapping, trapped) with object
catch (an animal) in a trap.
〈鳥獣〉をわなで捕らえる; 〈場所〉にわなを仕掛ける
prevent (someone) from escaping from a place:
〖通例be ～ped〗 〈人などが〉 【危険な場所などに】閉じ込められる; «…から» 出られ, 動けなくなる; 【窮地などに】陥る; (陥って) «…から» 抜け出せなくなる «in»
e.g. twenty workers were trapped by flames.
have (something, typically a part of the body) held tightly by something so that it cannot move or be freed:
e.g. he had trapped his finger in a spring-loaded hinge.
induce (someone), by means of trickery or deception, to do something they would not otherwise want to do:
«…するように» 〈人〉をだます, 策略にかける «into doing»
e.g. I hoped to trap him into an admission.
Baseball & American Football catch (the ball) after it has briefly touched the ground.
〘野球〙 〈打球〉をショートバウンドで捕る
Soccer bring (the ball) under control with the feet or other part of the body on receiving it.
〈ボール〉を足, 体で止めてコントロールする 〘サッカー〙
DERIVATIVES
traplike |-ˌlīk| adjective
ORIGIN
Old English træppe (in coltetræppe ‘Christ's thorn’); related to Middle Dutch trappe and medieval Latin trappa, of uncertain origin. The verb dates from late Middle English.
$ \mathrm{trap}^2 |trap|
verb (traps, trapping, trapped) with object (usually as adjective trapped) archaic
put trappings on (a horse):
e.g. gaily trapped mules.
ORIGIN
late Middle English: from the obsolete noun trap‘trappings’, from Old French drap‘drape’.
$ \mathrm{trap}^3 |trap| (also traprock)
noun North American
basalt or a similar dark, fine-grained igneous rock.
ORIGIN
late 18th century: from Swedish trapp, from trappa ‘stair’ (because of the often stair-like appearance of its outcroppings).