trap
/tɹæp/ nom A2En français : piège, collet, trap, trappe
- 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. · I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.
- A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare. · Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny.
- A (usually fictional) location or feature originally added to a map to detect plagiarism and copyright violations by other map makers or map services. · trap street
- Someone with male-typical anatomy who passes as female.
- 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, josou.
- An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
- Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object. · They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap.
- A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor. · Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.
Pluriel traps
Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down the ladder into the small, dark hole.
Once Toto got too near the open trap door, and fell in; and at first the little girl thought she had lost him.
She crept to the hole, caught Toto by the ear, and dragged him into the room again, afterward closing the trap door so that no more accidents could happen.
A FOX caught in a trap escaped, but in so doing lost his tail.
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