Trap vs. Rap — What's the Difference?

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

Strike (a hard surface) with a series of rapid audible blows, especially in order to attract attention

A stratagem for catching or tricking an unwary person.

Talk or chat in an easy and familiar manner

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

Perform rap music

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 quick, sharp knock or blow

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

A type of popular music of US black origin in which words are recited rapidly and rhythmically over an instrumental backing

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

A lengthy or impromptu conversation

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

A criminal charge, especially of a specified kind

(Baseball)See web.

A person's reputation, typically a bad one

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.

The smallest amount (used for emphasis)

The act of trapping a soccer ball.

To hit sharply and swiftly; strike

(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.

To utter sharply

A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.

To criticize or blame.

A trapdoor.

To strike a quick light blow

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

(Slang) To discuss something freely and at length.

(Slang)The human mouth.

To perform rap music.

Often traps Personal belongings or household goods.

To perform as rap music

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

A quick light blow or knock.

To catch in a trap; ensnare.

A knocking or tapping sound.

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

A reprimand.

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

A sentence to serve time in prison.

To seal off (gases) by a trap.

(Slang) A negative quality or characteristic associated with a person or an object.

To furnish with traps or a trap.

The least bit

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

(Slang) A talk, conversation, or discussion.

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.

A form of popular music developed especially in African American urban communities and characterized by spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a strong rhythmic accompaniment.

To set traps for game.

A composition or performance of such music.

To engage in trapping furbearing animals.

(countable) A sharp blow with something hard.

To furnish with trappings.

(slang) Blame for something.

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.

(informal) A casual talk.

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

Rap music.

A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.

A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.

A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.

An appraisal.

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

A positive appraisal; a recommendation.

The game of trapball itself.

A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.

Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.

(historical) Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

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 whit; a jot.

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

Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution

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

A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.

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

(intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.

(slang) A person's mouth.

To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

A policeman.

(metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

(in the plural) Belongings.

To utter quickly and sharply.

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

(ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.

(sports) Trapshooting.

To talk casually; to engage in conversation.

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

(transitive) To seize and carry off.

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

(transitive) To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.

A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.

A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

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

A quick, smart blow; a knock.

Someone who is anatomically male but who passes as female.

A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

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.

Conversation; also, rapping.

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

A type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; rap music.

The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.

To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

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

To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

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

To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

The trapezius muscle.

To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

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

To hasten.

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

To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.

(transitive) To provide with a trap.

To exchange; to truck.

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

To engage in a discussion, converse.

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

To perform a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by some as a type of music; see rap music.

(intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.

A reproach for some lapse or misdeed;

To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.

A gentle blow

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

The sound made by a gentle blow

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

Voluble conversation

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

Genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged

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

The act of hitting vigorously;

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

Strike sharply;

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

Make light, repeated taps on a surface;

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

Perform rap music

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

Talk volubly

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;