Dictionary entry

Trapping

Pronunciation: /trap/

Pronunciation

/trap/

Myanmar Meaning

(v[ing]) ပိတ်မနေ

Definition

trap /træp/ n ၁။ (က) ေထာင္ေခ်ာက္။ ဆင္ကြက္။ Don't go in there. It's a trap. ❍ The thieves were caught in a police trap. (ခ) လွည့္ကြက္။ ေထာင္ေခ်ာက္။ You fell right into my trap. ❍ Is this question a trap? (ဂ) (usu sing ) ႐ုန္း မထြက္ႏိုင္မႈ။ အေႏွာင္အဖြဲ႕။ [ဥ] နဖားႀကိဳး။ ဝဲဩဃ။ ၫႊတ္ကြင္း။ Some women see marriage as a trap. ❍ I fell into the trap of taking on new debts to pay off my old ones. See also BOOBY TRAP, DEATH-TRAP, POVERTY TRAP, RADAR TRAP ၂။ ေထာင္ေခ်ာက္။ ဘိ။ ၫႊတ္ကြင္း။ ေက်ာ့ကြင္း။ သုတ္။ ကိုင္း။ lay/ set/ bait a trap ❍ The mouse was caught in a trap. See also MOUSE-TRAP ၃။ ေရာေႏွာပါလာသည္ကို ဆယ္ထားသည့္ ခြက္၊ ကိရိယာ။ a sediment trap. See also TOURIST TRAP ၄။ ႏွစ္ဘီးတပ္ ျမင္းလွည္း ကေလး။ ၅။ ေခြးသမင္ ေျပးၿပိဳင္ပြဲတြင္ တာလႊတ္ရာေလွာင္ခ်ဳိင့္။ The favourite has been drawn in trap 4. ၆။ = TRAPDOOR ၇။ ( sl ) ပါးစပ္ေပါက္။ ပါးစပ္။ Shut your trap! v ( -pp- ) ၁။ ႐ုန္းထြက္မရ။ ပိတ္မိသည္။ ႐ုန္း မဖယ္သာသည္။ Help! I'm trapped. ❍ be trapped by the rising tide ❍ The lift broke down and we were trapped inside. ❍ They were trapped in the burning hotel. ❍ ( fig ) He was trapped in an unhappy marriage. ၂။ ၿငိေနသည္။ ညႇပ္မိသည္။ My jacket was trapped in the car door. ❍ The pain was caused by a trapped nerve. ၃။ ဆယ္ထားသည္။ စစ္ထုတ္ သည္။ The filter traps dust from the air. ❍ a special fabric that traps body heat ❍ harmful gases trapped in the earth's atmosphere. ၄။ ~ sb (into sth/ doing sth) အကြက္ဆင္ ဖမ္းသည္။ ေထာင္ေခ်ာက္ဆင္သည္။ The question was meant to trap him (into revealing his true identity). ၅။ ေထာင္ေခ်ာက္ဆင္၍ ဖမ္းသည္။ ဘိေထာင္သည္။ It's cruel to trap birds. ❍ The tribesmen obtain food by hunting and trapping. ❏ trapper n သားေမြးအလို႔ငွာ တိရစၧာန္ေထာင္ဖမ္းသူ။ သားေမြး မုဆိုး။

Examples

  1. [set/lay a trap] : We set traps in the attic for the mice.
  2. [caught in a trap (of something)] : He was caught in a trap of poverty.
  3. The platoon was lured into a trap by guerrilla soldiers.
  4. We didn’t know that we were walking straight into a trap.
  5. [fall into the trap of (doing) something] : I fell into the trap of putting work before family.