Trap vs. Interrupt
Trapnoun
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.
Trapnoun
A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
Trapnoun
A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
Trapnoun
A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball
Trapnoun
The game of trapball itself.
Trapnoun
Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
Trapnoun
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.
Trapnoun
A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
Trapnoun
(historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
Trapnoun
(slang) A person's mouth.
Trapnoun
(in the plural) Belongings.
Trapnoun
(slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
Trapnoun
(sports) Trapshooting.
Trapnoun
(computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
Trapnoun
A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
Trapnoun
A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold. Also used attributively to describe things which are used for the sale of drugs, e.g. "a trap phone", "a trap car".
Trapnoun
A kind of movable stepladder.
Trapnoun
A non-op trans woman or (femininely dressed) transvestite.
Trapnoun
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 textual gender.
Trapnoun
A fusion genre of hip-hop and electronic music.
Trapnoun
A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
Trapnoun
The trapezius muscle.
Trapverb
(transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
Trapverb
(transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
Trapverb
(transitive) To provide with a trap.
Trapverb
(intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game
Trapverb
(intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
Trapverb
To sell narcotics, especially in a public area.
Trapverb
To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
Trapverb
To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
Trapverb
To dress with ornaments; to adorn; - said especially of horses.
Trapverb
To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.
Trapverb
Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
Trapverb
To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.
Trapverb
To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.
Trapnoun
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.
Trapnoun
A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.
Trapnoun
Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.
Trapnoun
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.
Trapnoun
The game of trapball.
Trapnoun
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.
Trapnoun
A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
Trapnoun
A wagon, or other vehicle.
Trapnoun
A kind of movable stepladder.
Trapadjective
Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.
Trapnoun
a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
Trapnoun
drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas
Trapnoun
something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares;
Trapnoun
a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters
Trapnoun
the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise
Trapnoun
informal terms for the mouth
Trapnoun
a light two-wheeled carriage
Trapnoun
a hazard on a golf course
Trapverb
place in a confining or embarrassing position;
Trapverb
catch in or as if in a trap;
Trapverb
hold or catch as if in a trap;
Trapverb
to hold fast or prevent from moving;
Interruptverb
(ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly.
Interruptverb
(transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
Interruptverb
To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
Interruptnoun
An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
Interruptverb
To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks of anyone speaking.
Interruptverb
To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
Interrupt
Broken; interrupted.
Interruptverb
make a break in;
Interruptverb
destroy the peace or tranquility of;
Interruptverb
interfere in someone else's activity;
Interruptverb
terminate;
Interrupt
In digital computers, an interrupt is a response by the processor to an event that needs attention from the software. An interrupt condition alerts the processor and serves as a request for the processor to interrupt the currently executing code when permitted, so that the event can be processed in a timely manner.
