Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - trap
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1. n. & v. --n. 1 a an enclosure or device, often baited, for catching animals, usu. by affording a way in but not a way out. b a device with bait for killing vermin, esp. = MOUSETRAP. 2 a trick betraying a person into speech or an act (is this question a trap?). 3 an arrangement to catch an unsuspecting person, e.g. a speeding motorist. 4 a device for hurling an object such as a clay pigeon into the air to be shot at. 5 a compartment from which a greyhound is released at the start of a race. 6 a shoe-shaped wooden device with a pivoted bar that sends a ball from its heel into the air on being struck at the other end with a bat. 7 a a curve in a downpipe etc. that fills with liquid and forms a seal against the upward passage of gases. b a device for preventing the passage of steam etc. 8 Golf a bunker. 9 a device allowing pigeons to enter but not leave a loft. 10 a two-wheeled carriage (a pony and trap). 11 = TRAPDOOR. 12 sl. the mouth (esp. shut one's trap). 13 (esp. in pl.) colloq. a percussion instrument esp. in a jazz band. --v.tr. (trapped, trapping) 1 catch (an animal) in a trap. 2 catch or catch out (a person) by means of a trick, plan, etc. 3 stop and retain in or as in a trap. 4 provide (a place) with traps. Phrases and idioms trap-ball a game played with a trap (see sense 6 of n.). trap-shooter a person who practises trap-shooting. trap-shooting the sport of shooting at objects released from a trap. Derivatives traplike adj. Etymology: OE treppe, tr{aelig}ppe, rel. to MDu. trappe, med.L trappa, of uncert. orig. 2. v.tr. (trapped, trapping) (often foll. by out) 1 provide with trappings. 2 adorn. Etymology: obs. trap (n.): ME f. OF drap: see DRAPE 3. n. (in full trap-rock) any dark-coloured igneous rock, fine-grained and columnar in structure, esp. basalt. Etymology: Sw. trapp f. trappa stair, f. the often stairlike appearance of its outcroppings
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English treppe & Anglo-French ~e (of Germanic origin); akin to Middle Dutch ~pe ~, stair, Old English treppan to tread Date: before 12th century a device for taking game or other animals, 2. something by which one is caught or stopped unawares, a football play in which a defensive player is allowed to cross the line of scrimmage and then is blocked from the side while the ballcarrier advances through the spot vacated by the defensive player, the act or an instance of ~ping the ball in soccer, a defensive maneuver in basketball in which two defenders converge quickly on the ball handler to steal the ball or force a bad pass, 3. a device for hurling clay pigeons into the air, sand ~, a piece of leather or section of interwoven leather s~s between the thumb and index finger of a baseball glove that forms an extension of the pocket, mouth, a light usually one-horse carriage with springs, any of various devices for preventing passage of something often while allowing other matter to proceed, a group of percussion instruments (as a bass drum, snare drums, and cymbals) used especially in a dance or jazz band, an arrangement of rock strata that favors the accumulation of oil and gas, a measured stretch of a course over which electronic timing devices measure the speed of a vehicle (as a racing car or dragster), II. verb (~ped; ~ping) Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to catch or take in or as if in a ~ ; en~, to place in a restricted position ; confine , to provide or set (a place) with ~s, 3. stop, hold , to separate out (as water from steam), 4. to catch (as a baseball) immediately after a bounce, to block out (a defensive football player) by means of a ~, to stop and gain control of (a soccer ball) with a part of the body other than the hands or arms, intransitive verb to engage in ~ping animals (as for furs), to make a defensive ~ in basketball, see: catch ~per noun III. transitive verb (~ped; ~ping) Etymology: Middle English ~pen, from ~pe caparison, from Anglo-French ~e, probably from Medieval...Толковый словарь английского языка
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