Gin vs. Trap

Ginnoun

A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.

Trapnoun

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.’;

Ginnoun

(uncountable) Gin rummy.

Trapnoun

A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.

‘Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny.’;

Ginnoun

(poker) Drawing the best card or combination of cards.

‘Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.’;

Trapnoun

A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.

‘Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.’;

Ginnoun

(obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.

Trapnoun

A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball

Ginnoun

(obsolete) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.

Trapnoun

The game of trapball itself.

Ginnoun

A snare or trap for game.

Trapnoun

Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.

‘They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap.’;

Ginnoun

A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.

Trapnoun

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.

Ginnoun

(mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.

Trapnoun

A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.

Ginnoun

A pile driver.

Trapnoun

(historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.

Ginnoun

A windpump.

Trapnoun

(slang) A person's mouth.

‘Keep your trap shut.’;

Ginnoun

A cotton gin.

Trapnoun

(in the plural) Belongings.

Ginnoun

An instrument of torture worked with screws.

Trapnoun

(slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).

‘I've just laid a cable in trap 2 so I'd give it 5 minutes if I were you.’;

Ginnoun

An Aboriginal woman.

Trapnoun

(sports) Trapshooting.

Ginverb

(transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.

Trapnoun

(computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.

Ginverb

(transitive) To trap something in a gin.

Trapnoun

A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.

Ginverb

(archaic) To begin.

Trapnoun

A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold. Also used attributively to describe things which are used for the sale of drugs, e.g. "a trap phone", "a trap car".

Ginconjunction

If.

Trapnoun

A kind of movable stepladder.

Ginpreposition

Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.

Trapnoun

A non-op trans woman or (femininely dressed) transvestite.

Ginconjunction

If.

Trapnoun

A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's textual gender.

Ginverb

To begin; - often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.

Trapnoun

A fusion genre of hip-hop and electronic music.

Ginverb

To catch in a trap.

Trapnoun

A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.

Ginverb

To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.

Trapnoun

The trapezius muscle.

Ginnoun

A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; - also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.

Trapverb

(transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.

‘to trap foxes’;

Ginnoun

Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.

Trapverb

(transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.

Ginnoun

A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.

Trapverb

(transitive) To provide with a trap.

‘to trap a drain;’; ‘to trap a sewer pipe’;

Ginnoun

A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.

Trapverb

(intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game

‘trap for beaver’;

Ginnoun

strong liquor flavored with juniper berries

Trapverb

(intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.

Ginnoun

a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a noose

Trapverb

To sell narcotics, especially in a public area.

Ginnoun

a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers

Trapverb

To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.

Ginnoun

a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points

Trapverb

To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).

Ginverb

separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin

Trapverb

To dress with ornaments; to adorn; - said especially of horses.

‘Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering.’; ‘To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed.’; ‘There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold.’;

Ginverb

trap with a snare;

‘gin game’;

Trapverb

To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.

Ginnoun

a clear alcoholic spirit distilled from grain or malt and flavoured with juniper berries.

Trapverb

Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.

Ginnoun

a form of the card game rummy in which a player holding cards totalling ten or less may terminate play.

Trapverb

To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.

Ginnoun

a machine for separating cotton from its seeds.

Trapverb

To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.

Ginnoun

a machine for raising and moving heavy weights.

Trapnoun

An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock.

Ginnoun

a trap for catching birds or small mammals.

Trapnoun

A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.

‘She would weep if that she saw a mouseCaught in a trap.’;

Ginnoun

an Aboriginal woman.

Trapnoun

Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.

‘Let their table be made a snare and a trap.’; ‘God and your majestyProtect mine innocence, or I fall intoThe trap is laid for me!’;

Ginverb

treat (cotton) in a gin.

Trapnoun

A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at.

Gin

Gin is a distilled alcoholic drink that derives its predominant flavour from juniper berries (Juniperus communis).Gin originated as a medicinal liquor made by monks and alchemists across Europe, particularly in southern France, Flanders and the Netherlands, to provide aqua vita from distillates of grapes and grains. It then became an object of commerce in the spirits industry.

Trapnoun

The game of trapball.

Trapnoun

A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids.

Trapnoun

A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.

Trapnoun

A wagon, or other vehicle.

Trapnoun

A kind of movable stepladder.

Trapadjective

Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.

Trapnoun

a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned

Trapnoun

drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas

Trapnoun

something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares;

‘the exam was full of trap questions’; ‘it was all a snare and delusion’;

Trapnoun

a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters

Trapnoun

the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise

Trapnoun

informal terms for the mouth

Trapnoun

a light two-wheeled carriage

Trapnoun

a hazard on a golf course

Trapverb

place in a confining or embarrassing position;

‘He was trapped in a difficult situation’;

Trapverb

catch in or as if in a trap;

‘The men trap foxes’;

Trapverb

hold or catch as if in a trap;

‘The gaps between the teeth trap food particles’;

Trapverb

to hold fast or prevent from moving;

‘The child was pinned under the fallen tree’;