Trap
A
trap is a device or tactic intended to harm, capture, detect, or inconvenience an intruder. Traps may be physical objects, such as cages or snares, or metaphorical concepts.
Trap may refer to:
Examples of physical, usually mechanical, traps include:
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Animal trap, often used to obtain the fur or meat of wild animals
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Booby trap, a mechanism designed to capture or harm unsuspecting humans
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Heligoland trap, a large funnel-shaped structure used to trap birds
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Insect trap, used to capture insects
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Man-traps*
Mousetrap, designed to catch mice. See also
Mousetrap (disambiguation)*
Trapdoor, a recessed (often hidden) door in a floor or ceiling
Examples of metaphorical or conceptual traps include:
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Canary trap, a method for exposing an information leak
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High level equilibrium trap, a concept used to explain why China never underwent an indigenous Industrial Revolution
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Honey trap, a form of sting operation in law enforcement
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Liquidity trap, a concept in economics involving a stagnant economy and low interest rates
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Speed trap, a tactic designed to catch speed limit violators; it may also refer to a place where such a tactic is commonly used
* Verbal trap, a statement or question phrased in such a way that any valid response would imply something the responder does not intend. See also
Trick question*
Welfare trap, a phenomenon by which social policies interact to keep people dependent on welfare; related concepts include the unemployment trap and
poverty trapOther meanings of the word
trap include:
* In bodybuilding, a nickname for the
trapezius muscle
* In biochemistry, TRAP is an abbreviation for
tartrate resistant acid phosphatase* In computing, programming code or signal designed to capture errors and reveal where they are. More specifically, a processor-generated
exception, usually resulting in a switch into kernel mode
* In electronics, a
filter used to block a range of frequencies
* In geology, a
rock formation in which water, salt or hydrocarbons may collect
* In horseriding, a device which attaches a
carriage to a pony
* In role-playing games, a type of obstacle often used in
dungeons
* In the narcotics industry, an area where drugs are bought and sold in an open-air street market. People who are major drug dealers in a trap are known as "
Trap Stars"
* In plumbing, a U-shaped pipe located below a drain; also called a
water seal* In color
printing, where inks of different colours have been overlapped to mask registration problems. The process is called
spreading and choking* Also in color printing, when one ink dries too much, which stops the following colors being absorbed into the paper. It leaves a mottled effect.
* In shooting sports, the activity of
trap shooting, a clay target shooting sport; also, specifically the
Olympic Trap event; also, the device which launches the clays
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Trap (carriage), a light two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage
* A slang word for someone who is of the opposite sex to that which they appear to be, especially when they are attractive as a member of that sex.
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Bot trap, a method of handling misbehaving network bots
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Fur trapper, one who traps animals for a living
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Neutral zone trap, a defensive strategy in ice hockey
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Night Trap, a 1992 video game
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The Parent Trap, the title of two Disney movies
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Penning trap, used to store charged particles
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Polar Trappers, a 1938 Disney cartoon
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Trapball, an old game played with a trap
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TRAP law, a type of legislation used to restrict abortion providers
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Trap-Neuter-Return, a method of animal control
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Trap street, a fictitious or incorrectly rendered street on a map
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Treasure Trap, a live action role-playing game
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Trivia Trap, a short-lived TV game show
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Venus Flytrap, a carnivorous plant
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Trap (novel), a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Peter Mathers
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Deccan Traps, in west-central India
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Wolf Trap, Virginia*
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, also in Virginia
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Ambush (often called a
trap, as in the exclamation,
"It's a trap!")
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