Snare vs. Trap — What's the Difference?

A trap for catching birds or mammals, typically one having a noose of wire or cord.

A contrivance for catching and holding animals, as a concealed pit or a clamplike device that springs shut suddenly.

A length of wire, gut, or hide stretched across a drumhead to produce a rattling sound.

A stratagem for catching or tricking an unwary person.

A wire loop for severing polyps or other growths.

A confining or undesirable circumstance from which escape or relief is difficult:fell into poverty's trap.

Catch (a bird or mammal) in a snare

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.

A trapping device, often consisting of a noose, used for capturing birds and small mammals.

A device that hurls clay pigeons into the air in trapshooting.

Something that lures or entangles the unwary

A land hazard or bunker on a golf course; a sand trap.

A surgical instrument with a wire loop controlled by a mechanism in the handle, used to remove growths, such as tumors and polyps.

TrapsA measured length of roadway over which electronic timers register the speed of a racing vehicle, such as a dragster.

Any of the wires or cords stretched across the lower drumhead of a snare drum so as to vibrate against it.

(Baseball)See web.

A snare drum.

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.

To trap with or as if with a snare.

The act of trapping a soccer ball.

To get hold or control of (something difficult to catch)

(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.

A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).

A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.

A mental or psychological trap.

A trapdoor.

(veterinary) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.

Traps(Music)Percussion instruments, such as snare drums and cymbals, especially in a jazz band.

(surgery) A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.

(Slang)The human mouth.

(music) A set of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin of a drum to create a rattling sound.

Often traps Personal belongings or household goods.

(music) A snare drum.

Any of several dark, fine-grained igneous rocks often used in making roads.

(transitive) To catch or hold, especially with a loop.

To catch in a trap; ensnare.

To ensnare.

To prevent from escaping or getting free:was trapped in the locked attic.

A contrivance, often consisting of a noose of cord, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled and caught; a trap; a gin.

To deceive or trick by means of a scheme or plan.

Hence, anything by which one is entangled and brought into trouble.

To seal off (gases) by a trap.

The gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.

To furnish with traps or a trap.

An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion.

To catch (a ball) immediately after it has hit the ground.

To catch with a snare; to insnare; to entangle; hence, to bring into unexpected evil, perplexity, or danger.

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.

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

To set traps for game.

A small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head

To engage in trapping furbearing animals.

A surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities

To furnish with trappings.

Strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit

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 trap for birds or small mammals; often has a noose

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

Catch in or as if in a trap;

A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.

Entice and trap;

A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.

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 lack of an outlet.

A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.

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

(slang) A person's mouth.

A policeman.

(in the plural) Belongings.

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

(sports) Trapshooting.

(geology) A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.

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

A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.

A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.

Someone who is anatomically male but who passes as female.

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.

A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.

The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.

An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.

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

The trapezius muscle.

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

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

(transitive) To provide with a trap.

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

To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.

(intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.

To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.

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

To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.

Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The game of trapball.

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.

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

A wagon, or other vehicle.

A kind of movable stepladder.

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

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

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

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

A device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters

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

Informal terms for the mouth

A light two-wheeled carriage

A hazard on a golf course

Place in a confining or embarrassing position;

Catch in or as if in a trap;

Hold or catch as if in a trap;

To hold fast or prevent from moving;