trap

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
2. (countable, uncountable) A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
3. (broadly, countable, uncountable) A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
4. (countable, derogatory, informal, offensive, slang, uncountable, usually) A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
5. (countable, informal, slang, uncountable) A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
6. (countable, uncountable) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
7. (countable, uncountable) Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
8. (countable, uncountable) Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
9. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
10. (countable, uncountable) 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.
11. (countable, uncountable) 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.
12. (countable, uncountable) A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
13. (countable, uncountable) A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
14. (US, also, attributive, countable, slang, uncountable) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
15. (US, also, attributive, countable, slang, uncountable) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
16. (US, also, attributive, slang, uncountable) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
17. (countable, slang, uncountable) A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
18. (countable, historical, uncountable) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
19. (countable, slang, uncountable) A person's mouth.
20. (countable, slang, uncountable) Synonym of vagina.
21. (archaic, countable, slang, uncountable) A policeman.
22. (archaic, countable, in-plural, uncountable) Belongings.
23. (countable, slang, uncountable) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
24. (countable, uncountable) Trapshooting.
25. (Australia, countable, historical, slang, uncountable) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
26. (slang, uncountable) The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.

Verb

1. (transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
2. (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
3. (transitive) To provide with a trap.
4. (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; to travel for the purpose of trapping.
5. (intransitive, slang) To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
6. (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
7. (intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
8. (dated) To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.
9. (informal, offensive, slang, sometimes) Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.
10. (intransitive, slang) To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.

Verb

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

Teenoorgestelde van

bolter

Sinonieme

snare

catch

ensnare

pitfall

entrap

capture

net

trick

pit

noose

gin

seize

mousetrap

ambush

lure

grab

corner

hook

🪝

trammel

trapping

lasso

gob

maw

captivate

mesh

ambuscade

grapple

lying in wait

apprehend

springe

booby trap

sand trap

decoy

enmesh

fish trap

bait

pot

pin

mug

pin down

quagmire

immobilize

inducement

hole

🕳️

immobilise

control

bunker

grasp

grip

frame

Vertalings

piège

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trampa

🪤

Falle

🪤

trappola

🪤

atrapar

fangen

piéger

🪤

traquenard

🪤

παγίδα

intrappolare

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val

armadilha

🪤

attraper

🪤

trappe

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/tɹæp/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: trappe

Geërf van Old English: træppe

Verwante met Nederlands: trap

Verwante met Fries: traap

Verwante met Duits: Treppe

Verwante met Old English: træppan

Verwante met Old French: drap

In summary

From Middle English trappe, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”) (also in betræppan (“to trap”)) from Proto-West Germanic *trappjā (“trap, snare”), from Proto-West Germanic *trappjan (“to step”), from Proto-Germanic *trapjaną (“to tread, stamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *drebʰ- (“to step, trip, trample”).
Cognate with Dutch trap (“trap, snare”), German Low German Trapp (“trap”). Akin also to West Frisian traap (“stepping, treading, stairway”), German Treppe (“step, stair”), Old English træppan (“to step, tread”). Connection to "step" is "that upon which one steps". French trappe and Spanish trampa are ultimately borrowings from Germanic.