Gin vs. Trap — What's the Difference?
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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.
Trap
A contrivance for catching and holding animals, as a concealed pit or a clamplike device that springs shut suddenly.
Gin
A clear alcoholic spirit distilled from grain or malt and flavoured with juniper berries.
Trap
A stratagem for catching or tricking an unwary person.
Gin
A form of the card game rummy in which a player holding cards totalling ten or less may terminate play.
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Trap
A confining or undesirable circumstance from which escape or relief is difficult:fell into poverty's trap.
Gin
A machine for separating cotton from its seeds.
Trap
A device for sealing a passage against the escape of gases, especially a U-shaped or S-shaped bend in a drainpipe that prevents the return flow of sewer gas by means of a water barrier.
Gin
A machine for raising and moving heavy weights.
Trap
A device that hurls clay pigeons into the air in trapshooting.
Gin
A trap for catching birds or small mammals.
Trap
A land hazard or bunker on a golf course; a sand trap.
Gin
An Aboriginal woman.
Trap
TrapsA measured length of roadway over which electronic timers register the speed of a racing vehicle, such as a dragster.
Gin
Treat (cotton) in a gin.
Trap
(Baseball)See web.
Gin
A strong colorless alcoholic beverage made by distilling or redistilling rye or other grain spirits and adding juniper berries and sometimes other flavorings such as anise, caraway seeds, or angelica root.
Trap
A defensive strategy or play, as in basketball or hockey, in which two or more defenders converge on an offensive player shortly after the player gains possession of the ball or puck.
Gin
A machine for hoisting or moving heavy objects.
Trap
The act of trapping a soccer ball.
Gin
A pile driver.
Trap
(Football)A running play in which the ball carrier advances through a hole in the defensive line created by allowing a defensive lineman to penetrate the backfield.
Gin
A snare or trap for game.
Trap
A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
Gin
A pump operated by a windmill.
Trap
A trapdoor.
Gin
A cotton gin.
Trap
Traps(Music)Percussion instruments, such as snare drums and cymbals, especially in a jazz band.
Gin
Gin rummy.
Trap
(Slang)The human mouth.
Gin
To remove the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin.
Trap
Often traps Personal belongings or household goods.
Gin
To trap in a gin.
Trap
Any of several dark, fine-grained igneous rocks often used in making roads.
Gin
Used to announce that one has won a game of gin rummy.
Trap
To catch in a trap; ensnare.
Gin
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.
Trap
To prevent from escaping or getting free:was trapped in the locked attic.
Gin
(uncountable) Gin rummy.
Trap
To deceive or trick by means of a scheme or plan.
Gin
(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.
Trap
To seal off (gases) by a trap.
Gin
(obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
Trap
To furnish with traps or a trap.
Gin
(obsolete) A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.
Trap
To catch (a ball) immediately after it has hit the ground.
Gin
A snare or trap for game.
Trap
To gain control of (a moving soccer ball) by allowing it to hit and bounce off a part of the body other than the arm or hand.
Gin
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.
Trap
To set traps for game.
Gin
(mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
Trap
To engage in trapping furbearing animals.
Gin
A pile driver.
Trap
To furnish with trappings.
Gin
A windpump.
Trap
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.
Gin
A cotton gin.
Trap
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.
Gin
An instrument of torture worked with screws.
Trap
A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.
Gin
An Aboriginal woman.
Trap
A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.
Gin
(transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
Trap
A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
Gin
(transitive) To trap something in a gin.
Trap
The game of trapball itself.
Gin
(archaic) To begin.
Trap
Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap.
Gin
If.
Trap
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.
Gin
Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.
Trap
A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
Gin
If.
Trap
A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
After 100 traps, the arresting cables have to be replaced to minimize the danger of a worn or fatigued cable snapping under an aircraft.
Gin
To begin; - often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.
Trap
(historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
A horse and trap
Gin
To catch in a trap.
Trap
(slang) A person's mouth.
Keep your trap shut.
Gin
To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.
Trap
A policeman.
Gin
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.
Trap
(in the plural) Belongings.
Gin
Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
Trap
(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.
Gin
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.
Trap
(sports) Trapshooting.
Gin
A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.
Trap
(geology) A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
Gin
Strong liquor flavored with juniper berries
Trap
(computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
Gin
A trap for birds or small mammals; often has a noose
Trap
A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
Gin
A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers
Trap
A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
Trap phone
Trap car
Gin
A form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points
Trap
Someone who is anatomically male but who passes as female.
Gin
Separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
Trap
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 ostensible gender; otokonoko, josou.
Gin
Trap with a snare;
Gin game
Trap
A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
Trap
The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.
Trap
An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.
Trap
A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
Trap
The trapezius muscle.
Trap
(transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
To trap foxes
Trap
(transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
Trap
(transitive) To provide with a trap.
To trap a drain
To trap a sewer pipe
Trap
(intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game.
Trap for beaver
Trap
To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
After three consecutive bolters, the pilot finally trapped successfully on the Nimitz.
Trap
(intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
Trap
To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.
Trap
To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
Trap
To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.
Trap
Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.
Trap
To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
Trap
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.
Trap
To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.
Trap
Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
Trap
To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.
Trap
To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.
Trap
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.
Trap
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.
Trap
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!
Trap
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.
Trap
The game of trapball.
Trap
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.
Trap
A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
Trap
A wagon, or other vehicle.
Trap
A kind of movable stepladder.
Trap
Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.
Trap
A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
Trap
Drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas
Trap
Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares;
The exam was full of trap questions
It was all a snare and delusion
Trap
A device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters
Trap
The act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise
Trap
Informal terms for the mouth
Trap
A light two-wheeled carriage
Trap
A hazard on a golf course
Trap
Place in a confining or embarrassing position;
He was trapped in a difficult situation
Trap
Catch in or as if in a trap;
The men trap foxes
Trap
Hold or catch as if in a trap;
The gaps between the teeth trap food particles
Trap
To hold fast or prevent from moving;
The child was pinned under the fallen tree
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