Trap vs Stunt - 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
* 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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* 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
A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
(archaic) skill
* 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
To check or hinder the growth or development of.
(cheerleading) To perform a stunt.
(intransitive, slang, AAVE) To show off; to posture.
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A check in growth.
That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber.
English terms with multiple etymologies
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As nouns the difference between trap and stunt
is that trap is stair, step while stunt is stunt.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
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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 ----stunt
English
Etymology 1
Unknown.Noun
(en noun)- "See if you can hit the barrel, Joe," urged George Bland. "A lot of us have missed it, including Peaches, who seems to think his particular stunt is high throwing."
Derived terms
* publicity stunt * stunt double * stuntman * stuntperson * stuntwomanEtymology 2
From dialectal . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- Some have said smoking stunts your growth.
- The politician timed his announcement to stunt any surge in the polls his opponent might gain from the convention.
- I don't like his style, and he always stuntin' .