Trap vs Keep - What's the difference?
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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
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(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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* 2006 , Helen Calvert, Jenny Herbst, Ross Smith, Australia and the World: Thinking Historically ,
(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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* 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
To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to maintain.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:Both day and night did we keep company.
*(Tobias Smollett) (1721–1771)
*:within the portal as I kept my watch
To hold the status of something.
#To maintain possession of.
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#(lb) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
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#(lb) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
#(label) To remain in, to be confined to.
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#*:The wrathful skies / Gallow the very wanderers of the dark / And make them keep their caves.
#To restrain.
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# To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
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#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.viii:
#*:cursse on thy cruell hond, / That twise hath sped; yet shall it not thee keepe / From the third brunt of this my fatall brond.
#To supply with necessities and financially support a person.
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#(lb) To raise; to care for.
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#*1914 , Robert Joos, Success with Hens , Forbes & company, p.217:
#*:Of course boys are boys and need watching, but there is little watching necessary when they keep chickens.
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#To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:like a pedant that keeps a school
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#*:They were honourably brought to London, where every one of them kept house by himself.
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#*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
#To have habitually in stock for sale.
To hold or be held in a state.
#(lb) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.
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#*:Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps .
#To continue.
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#*:If the malt be not thoroughly dried, the ale it makes will not keep .
#(lb) To remain in a state.
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(lb) To wait for, keep watch for.
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To act as wicket-keeper.
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To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
*(William Tyndale) (1494-1536)
*:Keep that the lusts choke not the word of God that is in us.
To be in session; to take place.
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(lb) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate.
*Bible, iv. 7
*:I have kept the faith.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Him whom to love is to obey, and keep / His great command.
To confine oneself to; not to quit; to remain in.
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To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
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*:'Tis hallowed ground; / Fairies, and fawns, and satyrs do it keep .
(obsolete) Care, notice
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*:So Sir Gareth strayned hym so that his olde wounde braste ayen on bledynge; but he was hote and corragyous and toke no kepe , but with his grete forse he strake downe the knyght.
(historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. (According to , the word comes "from the Middle English term kype , meaning basket or cask, and was a term applied to the shell keep at Guînes, said to resemble a barrel".)
The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
:He works as a cobbler's apprentice for his keep .
The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.
*Spenser
*:Pan, thou god of shepherds all, / Which of our tender lambkins takest keep .
The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
:to be in good keep
(obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
*Spenser
*:Often he used of his keep / A sacrifice to bring.
(engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
As nouns the difference between trap and keep
is that trap is stair, step while keep is (obsolete) care, notice.As a verb keep is
to continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to maintain.trap
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).
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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.
Etymology 4
Shortening.Anagrams
* part * prat * rapt * tarp ----keep
English
Verb
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Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave
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