What's the difference between ensnare and entrap?

Ensnare


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To catch in a snare. See Insnare.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The deal would clarify trade rules that currently ensnare businesses large and small in red tape and arguably make trading in the Pacific rim far easier.
  • (2) Brazil’s corruption crackdown is welcome The arrest of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva could mark the beginning of the end of a political and financial crisis that has ensnared politicians and plunged the economy into recession.
  • (3) This is in part due to sweeping US counter-terrorism laws that have, until recently, been ensnaring Syrians who pose no threat.
  • (4) The court orders cast a data net so wide as to ensnare virtually all digital communications originating from or sent to the three.
  • (5) EU competition law might ensnare the NHS and prevent any successor from undoing Lansley's market reforms – but it will not save his bacon.
  • (6) It’s sort of as you cross a chasm on a tightrope your muscles tense up.” Li Jiamei, the youngest of two children, had just started her summer holidays when she became ensnared in the unforgiving world of Chinese politics.
  • (7) These ensnared enemies can be brought into the game as controllable characters by reinserting the Trap element into the portal.
  • (8) No doubt Boehner’s successor, be it current House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy (the odds-on favorite), or a more intransigent Tea Party true believer like Mike Labrador, the Idaho legislator who went gunning for McCarthy’s job in the last leadership vote,  will become ensnared in the same impossible conundrum when a government shutdown looms over, I don’t know, the War on Christmas.
  • (9) Failure of retrieval occurred only in specially difficult circumstances; when a catheter embolized to the pulmonary artery of a Tetralogy of Fallot, and when in spite of successful ensnarement, a fractured electrode was firmly adherent to the right ventricular apex.
  • (10) Stephen K Amos Stephen K Amos: 'Last year it was the solo plays that ensnared me.'
  • (11) The nation is now ensnared in a sixth straight year of recession with unemployment at a European high of 27%.
  • (12) Amanda Kimbrough is one of the women who have been ensnared as a result of the law being applied in a wholly different way.
  • (13) "You developed and perfected a web of deceit that was sufficient to ensnare young, intelligent and sensible women who had enjoyed a night out and whose only mistake, as it turned out, was to get into your cab late at night."
  • (14) While he and his wife were there preparing for the move, the state of Kansas took five of their children, ages 5 to 16, into custody on suspicion of child endangerment, ensnaring his family in interstate marijuana politics.
  • (15) More visibly, the Camorra famously adopted – or ensnared – Diego Maradona (who played for Napoli in his heyday) as its mascot, and thereby victim, befriending the genius striker, moving in on his merchandise – and furnishing him with women and drugs.
  • (16) Other complications included a silent free perforation, a snare-wire entrapment, and an ensnared bowel wall.
  • (17) Judging by recent coverage, Japan is in the midst of a marijuana epidemic that is ensnaring everyone from students to suburban housewives and sumo wrestlers.
  • (18) Davutoğlu also argued with Erdoğan over the pre-trial detention of journalists charged with insulting the president, an offence that has ensnared hundreds of people since 2014.
  • (19) This time they went to the body itself.” There are suspicions that the raid could lead to ECRF being ensnared in the ongoing crackdown on NGOs in Egypt , reviving an infamous case from 2011 which accuses it of receiving illegal foreign funds.
  • (20) "The way Paxman treated Chloe was bit like a giant cat playing with, and then ensnaring, a tiny mouse.

Entrap


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although alum adsorbed allergen could induce IgE synthesis in mice primed with liposome entrapped allergen the increase in serum specific IgE levels was lower than the animals primed and challenged with alum adsorbed allergen.
  • (2) While acromioclavicular joint injury is not uncommon, a complete posterior dislocation in which the distal clavicle penetrates and is entrapped by the trapezius muscle is among the most rare.
  • (3) DNA is entrapped in polyacrylamide gel particles which can then be used in standard column chromatographic procedures.
  • (4) Urate oxidase from hog liver (urate: oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.7.33) has been entrapped in a crosslinked 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate gel with a 47% retention of activity.
  • (5) A case of entrapment in the right ventricle after repair of a ventricular septal defect is presented and a method for percutaneous removal described.
  • (6) Entrapment of the ring finger flexor digitorum in the ulna following fracture of both forearm bones is very rare.
  • (7) Early complications included disc entrapment against the ventricular wall in three cases, wedging of chorda between disc and valve rim in two and posterior perforation of the left ventricle in three patients.
  • (8) Renal excretion of 3H from liposome-entrapped [3H]methotrexate was considerably less than that of 3H from free [3H]methotrexate.
  • (9) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
  • (10) When a supercoiled substrate bearing two FLP target sequences in inverse orientation is treated with FLP, the products are multiply knotted structures that arise as a result of random entrapment of interdomainal supercoils.
  • (11) Accelerating test at a constant temperature indicates that liposome-entrapped Ara-A has certain chemical stability.
  • (12) One patient was submitted to surgical exploration, and 'entrapment neuropathy' was found to be the cause.
  • (13) Liver microsomes from phenobarbital induced rats are entrapped in capsules prepared from polyelectrolytes.
  • (14) To assess the immunomodulating effect of allergen entrapped in liposomes, Swiss strain mice (made IgE responders) were injected with either free allergen or liposome-entrapped allergen (LEA) and their immune response was measured in terms of specific IgG and specific IgE levels.
  • (15) The results of double-label staining suggest the formation of LDL-DNA-IgG complexes which seem to be entrapped in cells more actively than free LDL.
  • (16) The damning comments by Judge Alistair McCreath both vindicated Contostavlos – who insisted she was entrapped by the reporter into promising to arrange a cocaine deal – and potentially brought down the curtain on the long and controversial career of Mahmood, better known as the "fake sheikh" after one of his common disguises.
  • (17) The effect of stabilization temperature, protein concentration and stabilization time on the entrapment and recovery of adriamycin in microspheres have been investigated using a 2 x 4 x 4 factorial design.
  • (18) The popliteal artery entrapment syndrome can be diagnosed by computer tomography with a greater degree of certainty than by angiography.
  • (19) A penile problem that physicians are confronted with in the emergency room is entrapment of the foreskin by a zipper fastener.
  • (20) That pulmonary entrapment had taken place was shown by a 3-fold increase in lung specific radioactivity.