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trap
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr?p, IPA(key): /t?æp/, [t??æp], [t???æp]
- (Northern English) IPA(key): [t????äp]
- Rhymes: -æp
Etymology 1
From Middle English trappe, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”) (also in betræppan (“to trap”)) from Proto-Germanic *trap-, from Proto-Indo-European *dremb- (“to run”).
Akin to Old High German trappa, trapa (“trap, snare”), Middle Dutch trappe (“trap, snare”), Middle Low German treppe (“step, stair”) (German Treppe "step, stair"), Old English treppan (“to step, tread”) and possibly Albanian trap (“raft, channel, path”). Connection to "step" is "that upon which one steps". French trappe and Spanish trampa are ultimately borrowings from Germanic.
Noun
trap (countable and uncountable, plural traps)
- 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.
- Synonym: snare
- A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
- A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
- (now rare) A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.
- 1798 January 3, Edinburgh Weekly Journal, page 5:
- There is likewise a cabin trap with five steps.
- 1842, Ellison Jack (girl, age 11), quoted in The Condition and Treatment of the Children Employed in the Mines, page 48:
- "I have to bear my burthen up four traps, or ladders, before I get to the main road which leads to the pit bottom."
- 1847, David Low, Elements of Practical Agriculture, page 37
- They have very generally received the name of trap-rocks, because they often present the appearance of traps or stairs.
- 1867, The Children's hour, page 137:
- Little Alf turned at once, and bidding Frank good-bye, he went into the house, and climbed up the trap stair into his little room in the garret, and pondered in his heart these words of Dolly's.
- 1875, The Gardner: A Magazine of Horticulture and Floriculture, page 3:
- The labour and time that are saved by thus concentrating and placing the heating power in doing away with the running to so many points, and up and down so many stairs or traps in attending to a number of fires, is also well worth noticing.
- 1887, George G. Green, Gordonhaven, page 114:
- Coming near the door, Scorgie cautioned quietness, and pointing to a trap stair he motioned Mr. Love and Donald to ascend to the loft.
- 1889 (original 1886), Willock, Rosetty Ends, 29:
- Had climbed up the trap-stair, and was busy potterin' aboot.
- 1920, Soviet Russia, page 14:
- Tossing, the negro walks up the trap-ladder. But the emotions of a drunkard change quickly.
- 1960, Bernard Guilbert Guerney, An Anthology of Russian Literature in the Soviet Period from Gorki to Pasternak
- The stokers, breaking into excited talk, picked him up and dragged him up the trap ladder to the deck. The Canadian wiped the blood off Petka's injured forehead ...
- 1798 January 3, Edinburgh Weekly Journal, page 5:
- A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball
- The game of trapball itself.
- Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
- 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.
- A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
- (aviation, military, slang) A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
- (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2
- The two women looked down the alley. At the end of the Bottoms a man stood in a sort of old-fashioned trap, bending over bundles of cream-coloured stuff; while a cluster of women held up their arms to him, some with bundles.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 51
- I had told them they could have my trap to take them as far as the road went, because after that they had a long walk.
- At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2
- (slang) A person's mouth.
- (in the plural) Belongings.
- 1870, Mark Twain, Running for Governor,
- ...his cabin-mates in Montana losing small valuables from time to time, until at last, these things having been invariably found on Mr. Twain's person or in his "trunk" (newspaper he rolled his traps in)...
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter IX, p. 144, [1]
- "Carry your traps out, Ma?" asked one of the passengers.
- 1870, Mark Twain, Running for Governor,
- (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
- (sports) Trapshooting.
- (geology) A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
- (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
- (Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
- 1996, Judith Kapferer, Being All Equal: Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice, page 84,
- The miners? grievances centred on the issue of the compulsory purchase of miners? licences and the harassment of raids by the licensing police, the ‘traps,’ in search of unlicensed miners.
- 2006, Helen Calvert, Jenny Herbst, Ross Smith, Australia and the World: Thinking Historically, page 55,
- Diggers were angered by frequent licence inspections and harassment by ‘the traps’ (the goldfield police).
- 1996, Judith Kapferer, Being All Equal: Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice, page 84,
- (US, slang, African-American Vernacular, also attributive) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
- (slang, informal, sometimes considered offensive) 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.
- 2013, One Piece: Grand Line 3 Point 5, page 47:
- One way to spot a trap is to look for an adam's apple.
- 2013, One Piece: Grand Line 3 Point 5, page 47:
- (music, uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
- Synonym: trap music
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (slang, informal, chiefly derogatory or offensive) A trans woman or transfeminine person.
- (slang, uncountable) The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.
- 2010, C. J. Land, A Hustler's Tale, page 54:
- The money clip held thirty-nine hundred dollars, combined with her trap money, she had five thousand dollars for her man.
- 2011, Shaheem Hargrove, Sharice Cuthrell, The Rise and Fall of a Ghetto Celebrity, page 55:
- The code was to call a pimp and tell him you have his hoe plus turn over her night trap but that was bull because the HOE was out of his stable months before I copped her.
- 2012 (original 1981), Alix Kates Shulman, On the Stroll: A Novel, Open Road Media (?ISBN):
- For the first time in the week since she'd been hooking she hadn't made her trap.
- 2010, C. J. Land, A Hustler's Tale, page 54:
Antonyms
(aircraft-carrier landing): bolter
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
trap (third-person singular simple present traps, present participle trapping, simple past and past participle trapped)
- (transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
- (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
- (transitive) To provide with a trap.
- (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game
- (aviation, military, slang, intransitive) To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
- (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
- (US, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular, intransitive) To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.
- (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
- (mining, dated) To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:trap.
Antonyms
(land on an aircraft carrier):
- bolter
Derived terms
- betrap
Translations
Related terms
- entrap
- entrapment
References
- 1895, William Dwight Whitney, The Century Dictionary, page 6441, "trap": "A kind of movable ladder or steps: a ladder leading up to a loft."
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Swedish trapp (“step, stair, stairway”), from Middle Low German trappe (“stair, step”).
Noun
trap (countable and uncountable, plural traps)
- A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
Derived terms
- trappean
- trappous
- trappy
Etymology 3
Akin to Middle English trappe (“trappings, gear”), and perhaps from Old Northern French trape, a byform of Old French drap, a word of the same origin as English drab (“a kind of cloth”).
Verb
trap (third-person singular simple present traps, present participle trapping, simple past and past participle trapped)
- To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Godiva
- There she found her palfrey trapt / In purple blazon'd with armorial gold.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Godiva
Related terms
- trapping
Etymology 4
Shortening.
Noun
trap (plural traps)
- (slang, bodybuilding) The trapezius muscle.
Anagrams
- part, part., patr-, prat, rapt, rtPA, tarp
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch trap, from Middle Dutch trappe, from Old Dutch *trappa, from Proto-Germanic *trapp?, *trapp?n.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /trap/
Noun
trap (plural trappe, diminutive trappie)
- stairs, staircase
Albanian
Etymology
Either a t- prefixed form of *rap, related to rrap (cf. Old Norse raptr (“rafter”), English raft), or akin to Proto-Germanic *trap-, compare Old High German trappa, trapa (“trap, snare”), German Treppe (“step, stair”), Old English treppan (“to step, tread”), English trap.
Noun
trap m
- raft, ferry
- thick grove
- furrow, channel, ditch
- path (on the mountains or in the woods)
Related terms
- rrap
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?trap]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *torp?.
Noun
trap m inan
- trot
- Synonyms: klus, poklus
Etymology 2
Noun
trap m inan
- trap shooting
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
trap
- second-person singular imperative of trápit
Further reading
- trap in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- trap in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tr?p/
- Hyphenation: trap
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch trappe, from Old Dutch *trappa, from Proto-Germanic *trapp?, *trapp?n, from Proto-Indo-European *dremb- (“to run”).
Noun
trap m (plural trappen, diminutive trapje n or trappetje n)
- stairs, staircase
- ladder
- degree, grade
- kick (act of kicking)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: trap
- ? Indonesian: terap
- ? Japanese: ???? (tarappu)
- ? Russian: ???? (trap)
Verb
trap
- first-person singular present indicative of trappen
- imperative of trappen
Etymology 2
From German Trappe, from Polish drop or Czech drop.
Noun
trap f (plural trappen, diminutive trapje n)
- bustard
Anagrams
- prat
Finnish
Etymology
From English trap.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tr?p/, [?t?r?p]
- IPA(key): /?træp/, [?t?ræp]
- Rhymes: -?p
- Syllabification: trap
Noun
trap
- trapshooting, trap (type of shooting sport)
- (ice hockey) trap
Declension
Pronunciation /?t?r?p/:
Pronunciation /?t?ræp/:
See also
- trappi
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /trap/
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
trap m inan
- (nautical) gangway, gangplank, gangboard, accommodation ladder
- trapdoor
- Synonym: zapadnia
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
trap
- second-person singular imperative of trapi?
Further reading
- trap in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- trap in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
From English trap.
Noun
trap m, f (plural traps)
- trap (a transvestite or trans woman)
Noun
trap m (uncountable)
- trap (music)
Spanish
Etymology
From English trap.
Noun
trap m (uncountable)
- trap (music)
Derived terms
- trapero
trap From the web:
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- what trapezoid look like
- what traps energy from the sun
undertake
English
Alternative forms
- undirtake (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English undertaken; equivalent to under- +? take (after undernim).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?nd??te?k/
- Rhymes: -e?k
Verb
undertake (third-person singular simple present undertakes, present participle undertaking, simple past undertook, past participle undertaken)
- (transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2, lines 417-420,[1]
- This said, he sat; and expectation held
His look suspense, awaiting who appeared
To second, or oppose, or undertake
The perilous attempt.
- This said, he sat; and expectation held
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2, lines 417-420,[1]
- (intransitive) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act III, Scene 3,[2]
- […] if King Lewis vouchsafe to furnish us
With some few bands of chosen soldiers,
I’ll undertake to land them on our coast
And force the tyrant from his seat by war.
- […] if King Lewis vouchsafe to furnish us
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act III, Scene 3,[2]
- (informal) To pass a slower moving vehicle on the curbside rather than on the side closest to oncoming traffic.
- Antonym: overtake
- (archaic, intransitive) To pledge; to assert, assure; to dare say.
- c. 1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 289-291,[3]
- As leene was his hors as is a rake,
And he nas nat right fat, I undertake,
But looked holwe and therto sobrely.
- As leene was his hors as is a rake,
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act V, Scene 3,[4]
- That is her ransom; I deliver her;
And those two counties I will undertake
Your grace shall well and quietly enjoy.
- That is her ransom; I deliver her;
- 1695, John Woodward, An Essay towards a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies, London: Richard Wilkin, Part 4, pp. 222-223,[5]
- […] if those Persons who are curious in collecting either Minerals, or the Shells, Teeth, or other Parts of Animal Bodies that have been buried in the Earth, do but search the Hills after Rains, and the Sea-Shores after Storms, I dare undertake they will not lose their Labour.
- c. 1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 289-291,[3]
- (obsolete, transitive) To take by trickery; to trap, to seize upon.
- (obsolete) To assume, as a character; to take on.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I, Scene 2,[6]
- Quince. […] you must needs play Pyramus.
Bottom. Well, I will undertake it.
- Quince. […] you must needs play Pyramus.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I, Scene 2,[6]
- (obsolete) To engage with; to attack, take on in a fight.
- c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act II, Scene 1,[7]
- It is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offence to.
- c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act II, Scene 1,[7]
- (obsolete) To have knowledge of; to hear.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 5, Canto 3, Stanza 34, London: George Allen, 1896, p. 1098,[8]
- Ne he his mouth would open unto wight,
Untill that Guyon selfe unto him spake,
And called Brigadore, (so was he hight,)
Whose voice so soone as he did undertake,
Eftsoones he stood as still as any stake,
- Ne he his mouth would open unto wight,
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 5, Canto 3, Stanza 34, London: George Allen, 1896, p. 1098,[8]
- (obsolete) To have or take charge of.
- c. 1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Physician’s Tale, lines 81-82, The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Bell & Daldy, 1866, Volume 3, p. 78,[9]
- […] therfore, for Cristes sake,
Kepeth wel tho that ye undertake.
- […] therfore, for Cristes sake,
- c. 1612, William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, Henry VIII, Act II, Scene 1,[10]
- To the water side I must conduct your grace;
Then give my charge up to Sir Nicholas Vaux,
Who undertakes you to your end.
- To the water side I must conduct your grace;
- c. 1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Physician’s Tale, lines 81-82, The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Bell & Daldy, 1866, Volume 3, p. 78,[9]
Usage notes
- Sense: To commit oneself. This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive.
- See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Derived terms
- undertaker
- undertaking
Translations
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- what undertaker
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- what undertale au is betty from
- what undertale au are you
- what undertale character are you test
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