Trapping

Definition: Trapping

Trapping

Noun

1. Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse.

Date "trapping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Domain	Definition
Aerospace	The process by which radiation particles are caught and held in a radiation belt. (references)
Electrical Engineering	The transfer of a free electron or hole to a trapping centre. Source: European Union. (references)
Publishing & Graphic Arts	Printing of one ink film on another, in multicolor wet printing. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Trapping

Synonyms: caparison (n), housing (n), housings (n), trappings (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Ornament	Embroidery; brocade, brocatelle, galloon, lace, fringe, trapping, border, edging, trimming; hanging, tapestry, arras; millinery, ermine; drap d'or.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	See in order to get heat you have to turn on the engine, thereby trapping the fumes and rendering us all dead by asphixiation. (Carpool; writing credit: Don Rhymer)
Movie/TV Titles	Lion Trapping (1919) Young Wild West Trapping a Tricky Rustler (1912)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The 2000-2005 Outlook for Agricultural Services, Hunting, and Trapping in Asia (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping (reference) File Preparation and Trapping in Illustrator (reference) Hunting and Trapping in Australia [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Mink Manual: Common Sense Approach to Mink Trapping (reference) Print Preparation & Trapping in Adobe Illustrator (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	People involved in trapping and skinning wild carnivores, especially bobcats, should be extremely cautious about exposure to Y. pestis vectors. Credit: CDC.		Newton Field Station, Mossy Pond - tower used for trapping insects. Credit: CDC.
	After closing the net and trapping the fish, the net is now brought on board. This is a view from the pilothouse of the fishing vessel looking aft as the net is brought through the powerblock and laid on the stern. Credit: Fisheries.		Menhaden fishing - closing the net and trapping the fish. Credit: Fisheries.
	Stromatolites are club-shaped structures formed by a slow buildup of microbial mats trapping ooid sands. These form in high energy channels where migrating sand dunes and chemical precipitation of carbonate cement are dominant seafloor processes. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).		Fence for trapping Mormon crickets. Big Horn County, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Trapping in and around homes can help reduce rodent populations. (references)
		They can also block the openings of the eustachian tubes, trapping air and fluid. (references)
		Also, you should clean the area well first to avoid trapping bacteria that could cause further problems. (references)
Civil Liberties	Afghanistan	According to a November UNHCR report, Northern Alliance forces surrounded a Taliban-occupied camp for displaced persons in southwestern Afghanistan, apparently trapping 6,000 Afghan civilians inside the camp. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Trapping" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 86.57% of the time. "Trapping" is used about 134 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	86.57%	116	29,969
Noun (singular)	8.96%	12	101,599
Adjective (general or positive)	2.99%	4	175,879
Noun (proper)	1.49%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	134	N/A

Expressions using "trapping": mass trapping ♦ Spin Trapping ♦ trapping center ♦ trapping centre ♦ trapping tackle. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "trapping": beaver-trapping, booby-trapping, fur-trapping, heat-trapping, insect-trapping, radiation-trapping, spin-trapping, turtle-trapping.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "trapping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kostum solemn. (various references)

Arabic		‏إيقاع بالشرك. (various references)

Chinese		诱捕 (Ensnare, Ginned, Ginning, trappings). (various references)

Danish		trapping (wet printing), opfangning (removal, scavenging), indfangning (capture, lock-on, scavenging), faeldefangst (placing of traps), anbringelse af faelder (placing of traps). (various references)

Dutch		verdwijning (disappearance), vallen zetten (placing of traps), meerkleurendruk (wet printing), invanging (capture, lock-on), het invangen. (various references)

Farsi		یراق (Stripe), تجملات وتزءینات , بدام اندازی . (various references)

Finnish		trappaus (wet printing), poistuminen (egress, removal, scavenging), poisto (depreciation), päällekkäin painaminen (wet printing), loukkuuntuminen, ansojen asettaminen (placing of traps), ansapyynti (placing of traps). (various references)

French		trappage, pose de pièges (placing of traps), piégeage (placing of traps), piègeage, impression humide sur humide. (various references)

German		in die Falle lockend, einfangend (capturing). (various references)

Greek		παγίδευση (in-cloud scavenging, placing of traps, rainout, rain-out, removal, scavenging), εκτύπωση υγρού επί υγρού (wet printing), τοποθέτηση παγίδων (placing of traps). (various references)

Hebrew		לכי�"�" (capture). (various references)

Hungarian		prémvadászat, lószerszámdíszítés. (various references)

Italian		intrappolamento, collocamento di trappole (placing of traps). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		トラック競技 (track events, trad, trap, trash). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		トラッ�"ング . (various references)

Manx		soie ribbaghyn, goaill ayns ribbey (trap). (various references)

Pig Latin		appingtray

Portuguese		molhado sobre molhado (wet printing), ancoragem (anchorage, lashing, moorage), "wet on wet". (various references)

Russian		остановка (cessation, halt, hitch, lay over, layover, letup, locking, pause, pit stop, shut-down, shutdowns, shutoff, stand, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping, tie up, tie-up). (various references)

Spanish		poner trampas (placing of traps), instalación de trampas (placing of traps), colocación de trampas (placing of traps), caza (bag, chase, Chevy, fighter, fighter plane, frantically, game, haggard, Hunt, hunting, lift, manhunt, prowl, pursuit, pursuit plane, rampant, shoot, shooting, spore, tigerish, tomboyish), captura (apprehension, arrest, capture, catch, seizure), atrapado (trapped). (various references)

Swedish		trappning (wet printing), utplacering av fällor (placing of traps), rening (catharsis, cleaning, purge, purification), infångning (capture), infångande (recapture), avlägsnande (elimination, withdrawal). (various references)

Ukrainian		зупинка (arrest, cessation, check, halt, halting, standstill, stop, stoppage, stopping, tie up). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Old English	450-1100	hyrst. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "trapping": trappings. (additional references)
	Words ending with "trapping": bootstrapping, entrapping, livetrapping, mousetrapping, strapping, unstrapping. (additional references)
	Words containing "trapping": strappings. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Trapping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: trapling, trappy, trephing, tripang, tripin, triping, trippin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "trapping" (pronounced tra"ping)
6	t r a" p i ng	strapping.
5	-r a" p i ng	rapping, scrapping, unwrapping, wrapping.
4	-a" p i ng	capping, clapping, flapping, lapping, mapping, napping, recapping, sapping, slapping, snapping, tapping, zapping.
3	-p i ng	antidumping, aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, creeping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, leaping, limping, lopping, lumping, moping, mopping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, reaping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, safekeeping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrimping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, slumping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, tamping, taping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, tripping, trooping, typing, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, zipping.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-p-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: parting, prating, rapping, tapping.
	-2 letters: gratin, paring, raping, rating, taping, taring.
	-3 letters: aping, atrip, garni, giant, grain, grant, gript, inapt, paint, patin, pinta, prang, print, riant, tapir, tragi, train.
	-4 letters: agin, airn, airt, anti, gain, gait, girn, girt, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, grin, grip, grit, nipa, pain, pair, pang, pant, part, pian, pina, ping.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-p-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: pretaping, strapping, trappings.
	+2 letters: entrapping, prepasting, strappings.
	+3 letters: approbating, preadapting, preadopting, preplanting, prestamping, propagating, propagation, suppurating, unstrapping, wiretapping.
	+4 letters: appertaining, apportioning, appreciating, apprenticing, giftwrapping, interlapping, livetrapping, pantographic, perpetrating, perpetuating, propagandist, propagations, propitiating, reappointing, repopulating, transhipping, typographing.
	+5 letters: anthropophagi, appropriating, approximating, bootstrapping, expropriating, mousetrapping, participating, photographing, precipitating, propagandists, stepparenting, transshipping.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 72 61 70 70 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01110010 01100001 01110000 01110000 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#112 &#112 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 0070 0070 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
trapping	301	cat trapping	9
trapping supply	91	prepress trapping	9
fur trapping	34	hog trapping	8
trapping ground hog	31	mink trapping	8
beaver trapping	28	trapping racoons	8
trapping raccoon	24	bird trapping	8
trapping turtle	22	lure trapping	7
trapping fox	22	trapping snapping turtle	7
trapping skunk	21	minnow trapping	7
trapping rabbit	20	picture trapping	6
animal trapping	19	bobcat trapping	6
coyote trapping	19	trapping mouse	6
mole trapping	18	crayfish trapping	5
php shell stderr trapping	17	trapping rat	5
spin trapping	16	trapping weasel	5
trapping woodchuck	15	crawfish trapping	5
chipmunk trapping	13	snake trapping	5
trapping squirrel	13	snare trapping	5
muskrat trapping	11	armadillo trapping	4
racoon trapping	11	leech trapping	4
tip trapping	9	cat feral trapping	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Trapping

Definition: Trapping

Trapping

Noun

Specialty Definition: Trapping

Synonyms: Trapping

Synonyms within Context: Trapping

Ornament

Crosswords: Trapping

Modern Usage: Trapping

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Trapping

References

Books

Image Slideshow: Trapping

Illustrations:Trapping

Computer Images:Trapping

Photo Album: Trapping

Non-Fiction Usage: Trapping

Usage Frequency: Trapping

Expressions: Trapping

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Trapping

Modern Translation: Trapping

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Danish

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Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

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Pig Latin

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Ancestral Language Translations: Trapping

Derivations & Misspellings: Trapping

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Trapping"

Anagrams: Trapping

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Trapping

54 72 61 70 70 69 6E 67

- .-. .- .--. .--. .. -. --.

01010100 01110010 01100001 01110000 01110000 01101001 01101110 01100111

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#112 &#112 &#105 &#110 &#103

0054 0072 0061 0070 0070 0069 006E 0067

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INDEX

Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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