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trapping

trap
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [trap]
    • /træp/
    • /ˈtræpɪŋ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [trap]
    • /træp/

Definitions of trapping word

  • noun trapping traps, Informal. personal belongings; baggage. 1
  • verb with object trapping to furnish with or as with trappings; caparison. 1
  • verb without object trapping to set traps for game: He was busy trapping. 1
  • verb without object trapping to engage in the business of trapping animals for their furs. 1
  • verb without object trapping Trapshooting, Skeet. to work the trap. 1
See all 5 definitions of trapping

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Origin of trapping

First appearance:

before 1000
One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English trappe (noun), trappen (v.), Old English træppe (noun), cognate with Middle Dutch trappe (Dutch trap) trap, step, staircase; akin to Old English treppan to tread, German Treppe staircase

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Parts of speech for Trapping

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Trapping

trapping popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

trapping usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for trapping

noun trapping

  • accoutrement — Accoutrements are all the things you have with you when you travel or when you take part in a particular activity.
  • accoutrements — all the things you have with you when you travel or take part in a particular activity, such as clothing and equipment
  • apparel — Apparel means clothes, especially formal clothes worn on an important occasion.
  • chicane — a bridge or whist hand without trumps
  • conversation piece — something, esp an unusual object, that provokes conversation
All 28 Synonyms of trapping

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Related words

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  • bait

    Bait is food which you put on a hook or in a trap in order to catch fish or animals.

  • bow net

    a clam-shaped net for trapping hawks, set open and baited with a pigeon, and closed upon the hawk by means of a trigger sprung from a blind.

  • carbon capture

    the capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide, esp as a technique to prevent climate change

  • dendritic cell

    a branching cell of the lymph nodes, blood, and spleen that functions as a network trapping foreign protein.

  • indagate

    to investigate; research.
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