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trap

noun

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.

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The word 'trap' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is most commonly used as a verb and a noun. Verb Example: Students often trap themselves with their own bad decisions. Noun Example: The teacher set a clever trap for the students so that they could not easily answer the question.

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Within five minutes Laszlo Kiss was allowed to trap a ball from a corner and turn eight yards from the Salvadoran goal before firing past Mora to make it 6-1.

That's one way of seeing it, but it does not seem to give sufficient credit to the work Republicans did to construct the trap themselves.

The disability campaigners who gathered at the Capitol on Tuesday warned that Georgia had created a trap for disabled people, because in mild cases such as Hill's it was almost impossible to prove beyond doubt their challenges.

The camera trap also permits [us] to discover new species and to confirm some species as golden cats, gigantic pangolin, ratel [or honey badger]." McPhee's work, which he is currently crafting into a master's thesis, is not going unnoticed.

McPhee and his team compared their findings with another camera trap survey in a non-hunted forest in Lomami national park, only to discover that the lesula appeared to be doing as well in the heavily-hunted forest as in the non-hunted one.

Four minutes after he left, a gamekeeper arrived, and let himself into the cage-like trap.

But the coalition, which has ensnared the country in its homemade austerity trap, has done a brilliant job until now in bringing out the masochistic streak in the British character, and persuading people that all these budget cuts are necessary.

But it's a trap, this way of mind, it's a trick, a terrible illusion.

"Everyone else was drunk anyway" has become "Did I really do that?" As my sober clock ticked away I worried I would forget this reality and fall into the trap of "I wasn't that bad really".

The footage showed that a jay had been used as a lure in a cage-style trap which had caught a rare goshawk.

Everybody falls into the trap of looking at the hospital in isolation from the rest".

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