Trap
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Trap or Traps may refer to:
- Trap, Carmarthenshire, a hamlet in Wales
- Giovanni Trapattoni (born 1939), Italian association football coach and former player also known as sometimes known as "Trap" or "Il Trap"
- Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel, a U.S. military term for a rescue mission to retrieve a downed aircraft
- TRAP law ("Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers"), a type of legislation used to restrict abortion providers
- a pejorative term for a person who passes so well as female that they could be chosen as partner despite having unexpected (male-typical) genitalia, implying deceitful intention on the part of the person
- Slang for crack house
Capturing method
Device
- Animal trapping
- Mousetrap
- Bird trapping
- Heligoland trap, a kind of bird trap
- Fish trap
- Insect trap
- Man-trap
- Booby trap
- Chemical trap, a chemical compound usable for capturing an elusive molecule
- Penning trap, used to store charged particles
Tactic
- Canary trap, a method for exposing an information leak
- Chess trap, a move intended to induce the opponent to blunder
- Honey trap, a form of sting operation in law enforcement
- Neutral zone trap, a defensive strategy in ice hockey
- Speed trap, a tactic designed to catch speed limit violators, or a place where such a tactic is commonly used
- Trap street, an intentionally incorrectly rendered street on a map
Hindrance
- Sand trap, a type of hazard in golf
- Welfare trap, a phenomenon by which social policies interact to keep people dependent on welfare
- High level equilibrium trap, a concept used to explain why China never underwent an indigenous Industrial Revolution
- Liquidity trap, a concept in economics involving a stagnant economy and low interest rates
- Carrier trap, a type of defect in a semiconductor
Science
- Magnetic trap (disambiguation), various meanings, in physics
Biology
- Ecological trap
- Evolutionary trap
- Perceptual trap
- Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase, a metalloenzyme involved in bone formation.
- Thrombin receptor activating peptide
- Thyroid Hormone Receptor-associated Proteins, a transcriptional coactivator
- TNF receptor associated periodic syndrome, the cutaneous condition tumor necrosis factor receptor associated periodic syndrome
- TNF-related activation protein, also known as CD40 ligand.
- Tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic transporter, a family of prokaryotic solute transporters.
- trp RNA-binding attenuation protein, a RNA-binding protein regulating the biosynthetis of tryptophan
- Twin reversed arterial perfusion, a twin pregnancy abnormality
Geology
- Sediment trap (geology)
- Structural trap (in petroleum geology)
- Trap basalt, a type of rock formation
- Trap rock, a fine-grained, dark-colored igneous rock
Large igneous provinces
- Deccan Traps, in west-central India
- Emeishan Traps, in southwestern China
- ParanĂ¡ and Etendeka traps, dismembered large igneous province in Brazil and southwestern Africa
- Siberian Traps, in eastern Russia
Technology
- Trap (car), a secret compartment in an automobile
- Trap (carriage), a type of horse-drawn carriage
- Trap (computing), a code or signal designed to capture errors and reveal where they are
- Trap (plumbing), a U-shaped pipe located below a drain; also called a water seal
- Trap (printing), a commercial printing technique to overcome registration problems
- TRAP (processor instruction)
- Deep-level trap, a crystalline defect in a semiconductor material
- Ink trap, a feature of some typefaces that are spaces where printing ink can accumulate
Art, entertainment, and media
- Trap (poker), a strategy
- Trap music, a genre
- Trap (novel) (1966) novel by Peter Mathers
- Trap room, a part of a theater
- Traps (TV series), an American police drama
Films
- The Trap (1966 film), Canadian/UK, by Sidney Hayers
- Traps (1994 film), Australian, by Pauline Chan
- A Trap (1997), Polish
- Trap (2015 film), Filipino
Musical works
- "Trap" (Henry Lau song) (feat. Taemin and Kyuhyun)
- Albums
- Trap (Dead Man Ray album), 2000
- Trap (Henry Lau album)
- Traps (album), 2012 by Jaill
Sports
- Bat and trap, an old game related to cricket
- Neutral zone trap, an ice hockey defensive strategy
- Trap run, an American football play
- Trap shooting, a form of competitive clay pigeon shooting
- Triathlon Association of the Philippines, the governing body for the sports of triathlon in the Philippines.
See also
- Ambush
- "It's a Trap!"
- Sand trap (disambiguation)
- Trapdoor
- Trapezius muscle
- The Trap (disambiguation)
- Trapped (disambiguation)
- Trapper (disambiguation)
- Trapping (disambiguation)
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