A is a device or tactic intended to harm, capture, detect, or inconvenience an intruder. Traps may be physical objects, such as cages or snares, or metaphorical concepts.
may refer to:
Examples of physical traps include:
Examples of metaphorical or conceptual traps include:
- Canary Trap , a method for exposing an information leak
- High Level Equilibrium Trap , a concept used to explain why China never underwent an indigenous Industrial Revolution
- Honey Trap , a form of sting operation in law enforcement
- Liquidity Trap , a concept in economics involving a stagnant economy and low interest rates
- Speed Trap , a tactic designed to catch speed limit violators; it may also refer to a place where such a tactic is commonly used
- Verbal trap, a statement or question phrased in such a way that any valid response would imply something the responder does not intend. See also Trick Question
- Welfare Trap , a phenomenon by which social policies interact to keep people dependent on welfare; related concepts include the unemployment trap and poverty trap
- Chemical Trap , a chemical compound responsible for capturing an elusive molecule.
Other meanings of the word ''trap'' include:
- In urban/hip hop culture a trap refers to a trap house: a place where drugs are sold; a trap can be an area or neighborhood dominated by a drug economy and culture.
- In bodybuilding, a nickname for the Trapezius muscle
- In biochemistry, TRAP is an abbreviation for Tartrate Resistant Acid Phosphatase
- In Computing and Operating System s, a Trap is a programming code or Signal designed to capture errors and reveal where they are. More specifically, a processor-generated Exception , usually resulting in a switch into Kernel Mode
- In electronics, a Filter used to block a range of frequencies
- In geology, a Rock Formation in which water, salt or hydrocarbons may collect
- In horseriding, a device which attaches a Carriage to a pony
- In role-playing games, a type of obstacle often used in Dungeon s
- In the Narcotics industry, an area where drugs are bought and sold in an open-air street market. People who are major drug dealers in a trap are known as " Trap Stars "
- Trap (plumbing) , a U-shaped pipe located below a drain; also called a water seal
- Trap (poker) , a Poker strategy
- In color Printing , where inks of different colours have been overlapped to mask registration problems. The process is called Spreading And Choking
- Also in color printing, when one ink dries too much, which stops the following colors being absorbed into the paper. It leaves a mottled effect.
- In shooting sports, the activity of Trap Shooting , a clay target shooting sport; also, specifically the Olympic Trap event; also, the device which launches the clays
- In relationships, a member who manages to ensnare the other, through emotional or sexual manipulation, so as to prevent them from ending the relationship.
- Trap (carriage) , a light two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage
- A meme from the internet describing A Man Who Is Intending To Look Like An Attractive Woman or a pre-op male to female Transsexual . Females crossdressing as males or pre-op female to male transsexuals are often referred to as reverse traps.
- A Trap Room , part of a Theater .
- In naval aviation, a trap is a shipboard arrested landing.
- Bot Trap , a method of handling misbehaving network bots
- Fur Trapper , one who traps animals for a living
- Neutral Zone Trap , a defensive strategy in ice hockey
- Night Trap , a 1992 video game
- '' The Parent Trap '', the title of two Disney movies
- Penning Trap , used to store charged particles
- Polar Trappers , a 1938 Disney cartoon
- Trapball , an old game played with a trap
- TRAP Law , a type of legislation used to restrict abortion providers
- Trap-Neuter-Return , a method of animal control
- Trap Street , a fictitious or incorrectly rendered street on a map
- Treasure Trap , a live action role-playing game
- Trivia Trap , a short-lived TV game show
- Venus Flytrap , a carnivorous plant
- Trap (novel) , a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Peter Mathers
- Trap , nickname for Giovanni Trapattoni, Italian soccer manager
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