Tra từ trap - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

trap [trap traps trapped trapping] noun, verb BrE [træp] NAmE [træp]
noun

FOR ANIMALS
1. a piece of equipment for catching animals
•a fox with its leg in a trap
• A trap was laid, with fresh bait.
see also ↑mousetrap

TRICK
2. a clever plan designed to trick sb, either by capturing them or by making them do or say sth that they did not mean to do or say
• She had set a trap for him and he had walked straight into it.
see also ↑booby trap, ↑radar trap, ↑sand trap, ↑tourist trap

BAD SITUATION
3. usually singular an unpleasant situation from which it is hard to escape
•the unemployment trap
• Some women see marriage as a trap.
see also ↑deathtrap, ↑poverty trap

CARRIAGE
4. a light ↑carriage with two wheels, pulled by a horse
•a pony and trap

MOUTH
5. (slang)mouth
Syn: ↑gob
•Shut your trap! (= a rude way of telling sb to be quiet)
•to keep your trap shut (= to not tell a secret)

FOR RACING DOG
6. a ↑cage from which a ↑greyhound (= a type of dog) is let out at the start of a race

IN GOLF
7. (NAmE) = ↑bunker
more at spring a trap at ↑spring _v.

Word Origin:
Old English træppe (in coltetræppe ‘Christ's thorn’); related to Middle Dutch trappe and medieval Latin trappa, of uncertain origin. The verb dates from late Middle English.
Idiom: ↑fall into the trap of doing something

verb (-pp-)

IN DANGEROUS/BAD SITUATION
1. often passive ~ sb (+ adv./prep.) to keep sb in a dangerous place or bad situation that they want to get out of but cannot
• Help! I'm trapped!
• They were trapped in the burning building.
•We became trapped by the rising floodwater.
•He was trapped in an unhappy marriage.
•I feel trapped in my job.

PART OF BODY/CLOTHING
2. ~ sth (+ adv./prep.) to have part of your body, your clothing, etc. held in a place so tightly that you cannot remove it and it may be injured or damaged
• I trapped my coat in the car door.
• The pain was caused by a trapped nerve.

CATCH
3. ~ sth to catch or keep sth in a place and prevent it from escaping, especially so that you can use it
•Solar panels trap energy from the sun.
4. ~ sb/sth (+ adv./prep.) to force sb/sth into a place or situation that they cannot escape from, especially in order to catch them
• The escaped prisoners were eventually trapped in an underground garage and recaptured.
• Police believe the fingerprints could help trap the killer.
5. ~ sth to catch an animal in a trap
•Raccoons used to be trapped for their fur.

TRICK
6. ~ sb (into sth/into doing sth) to trick sb into sth
•He felt he had been trapped into accepting the terms of the contract.
•The police managed to trap him into revealing his true identity.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English træppe (in coltetræppe ‘Christ's thorn’); related to Middle Dutch trappe and medieval Latin trappa, of uncertain origin. The verb dates from late Middle English.