Pin vs Trap - What's the difference?
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A small device, made (usually) of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
* Milton
A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
(in plural'' pins ; ''informal ) A leg.
(electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
(US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
(chess) A scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to attack.
(curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
* Shakespeare
(dated) A mood, a state of being.
* Cowper
One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
(medicine, obsolete) caligo
A thing of small value; a trifle.
* Spectator
A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
(engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
The tenon of a dovetail joint.
(often followed by a preposition such as'' to''' ''or'' ' on ) To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
(chess, usually, in the passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
(wrestling) To pin down (someone).
To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
(computing, GUI) To attach (an icon, application, etc.) to another item.
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.
A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
* Shakespeare
A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
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 want of an outlet.
(historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
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(slang) A person's mouth.
(in the plural) belongings
* 1870 , , Running for Governor ,
(slang) cubicle (in a public toilet)
(sports) Short for trapshooting.
(computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
(Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
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(US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular English) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
(slang, informal, pejorative) A person with male genitalia who can be mistaken for a female; a convincing transvestite or transwoman.
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A kind of movable stepladder.
To physically , to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
* Dryden
To provide with a trap.
To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.
To leave suddenly, to flee.
(US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular English) (slang) To sell narcotics, especially in a public area.
(computing) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
To dress with ornaments; to adorn; said especially of horses.
* Spenser
* Tennyson
As a noun trap is
stair, step.pin
English
(wikipedia pin)Noun
(en noun)- With pins of adamant / And chains they made all fast.
- Pull the pin out of the grenade before throwing it at the enemy.
- I'm not so good on my pins these days.
- The UK standard connector for domestic mains electricity has three pins .
- The shot landed right on the pin .
- the very pin of his heart cleft
- a merry pin
- (Shakespeare)
- He did not care a pin for her.
Synonyms
* (small nail) nail, tack * (cylinder of wood or metal) peg * (games) skittle * (jewellery fastened with a pin) brooch * (accessory) badgeHyponyms
* (jewellery fastened with a pin) breastpin * (chess) absolute pin, relative pin, partial pinDerived terms
* belaying pin * breastpin * clothespin / clothes pin * drawing pin * gudgeon pin * on a pin * on pins and needles * pincushion * pinhead * pinhole * pin money * pinner * pinprick * pins and needles * pintle * pin-up, pinup * rolling pin * safety pinSee also
* needleVerb
- to pin a window to the Taskbar
Derived terms
* pin down * pin in * pin on * pin the tail on the donkey * pin up * underpintrap
English
(wikipedia trap)Etymology 1
(etyl) (m), from (etyl) and possibly Albanian (m) "raft, channel, path". Connection to "step" is "that upon which one steps". (etyl) are ultimately borrowings from (etyl).Noun
(en noun)- I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.
- Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny.
- God and your majesty / Protect mine innocence, or I fall into / The trap is laid for me!
- Close the trap , would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.
- They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap .
- 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.
- 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.
- Keep your trap shut .
- ...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)...
- I've just laid a cable in trap 2 so I'd give it 5 minutes if I were you.
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- 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.
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- Diggers were angered by frequent licence inspections and harassment by ‘the traps ’ (the goldfield police).
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* snareDerived terms
* activity trap * beartrap/bear trap * betrap * booby trap * bus trap * firetrap * fish-trap * honey trap * mantrap * mousetrap * offside trap * optical trap * radar trap * rattletrap * speed trap * tourist trap * trapdoor * (l)Verb
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- I trapped the foe.
Etymology 2
(Trap rock) From (etyl) trapp, from .Noun
(-)Derived terms
* trappean * trappous * trappyEtymology 3
Akin to (etyl) .Verb
(trapp)- to deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed
- There she found her palfrey trapped / In purple blazoned with armorial gold.