What's the difference between tramp and trap?

Tramp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
  • (v. i.) To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country.
  • (v. i.) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
  • (v. i.) To travel; to wander; to stroll.
  • (n.) A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp.
  • (n.) A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond.
  • (n.) The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching.
  • (n.) A tool for trimming hedges.
  • (n.) A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Communist party mouthpiece newspaper the People’s Daily said in an editorial that the tribunal had ignored “basic truths” and “tramped” on international laws and norms.
  • (2) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
  • (3) They left him with an enduring sympathy for the poor and marginalised, embodied in his Little Tramp character .
  • (4) She would tramp to the village phone box and wait for some ringing and then quiz me about eating greens and clean handkerchiefs and comprehensively diss my dad, who had left home to "find himself" – in the arms of a local paramour.
  • (5) The only other person Drake ever wrote a song for was, bizarrely enough, Millie, of My Boy Lollipop, who recorded a reggae song of his called May Fair, one of those “quaint” pieces of observation – a rich lady getting in a chauffeured limousine while a tramp ambles past at the exact same moment.
  • (6) May, the provincial vicar’s daughter, has done her time tramping the streets, stuffing envelopes, working the local Conservative association circuit.
  • (7) In her day this was a gritty neighbourhood and it hasn’t changed much, with a shabby market by the metro station and blocks of peeling townhouses; this is the real, old Paris, the world she sang about, with its desperate cast of thieves and tramps and lovers.
  • (8) "Personally I longed for human society and for exercise (a good long tramp for example), but no doubt Odilo had his reasons".
  • (9) Instagram photos showed them tramping around New York, bowler hatted and hand in hand.
  • (10) This tireless, Glasgow-built cargo ship has been tramping between Kampala and Mwanza, Tanzania's second most populous city, for more than 40 years.
  • (11) The Clos was created in 1933 by the city of Paris on what was previously, according to a municipal tin placard, "a waste land, the refuge of tramps and a playground for local children".
  • (12) Diplomats and staff tramped across the rain-soaked grass of the UN’s Rose Garden on the banks of the East River to watch.
  • (13) A tramp who smacks himself repeatedly about the body.
  • (14) But as we tramp back to the village, it’s worth mourning that golden age of privacy, and the city that allowed people to reinvent themselves like the characters in Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side.
  • (15) His work has often been obliquely autobiographical – never quite his story, but yes, he was a history boy back in the day preparing for Oxford; yes, you could draw comparisons with the repressed gay man he plays in A Chip in the Sugar; yes, he did give refuge to a tramp who parked her van in his driveway for 15 years, and so it goes.
  • (16) Gideon wondering how many coins there are in a pound then snorting through his nose as he draws a penis murdering a tramp on his satchel.
  • (17) And I can tramp through snowstorms late at night when no one is stirring and feel the kind of excitement John Muir (father of the US national parks) must have felt when he spent a stormy night up a tree just to embrace it and know what it endured in the absence of reportorial creatures.
  • (18) And, like tramps, we expect to be moved on, sooner or later, as more and more of London’s public space becomes private.
  • (19) Richard, a long-time mountain devotee, agrees: "As someone who's tramped over its slopes many, many times, I simply don't understand how a mountain can be valued at £1.75m to pay off tax.
  • (20) Elevated affective excitability was the most common of all psychopathy-like disorders, followed by the syndrome of home leaving and tramping, the aggressive-sadistic syndrome, and mental instability.

Trap


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.
  • (n.) A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.
  • (n.) Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The game of trapball.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
  • (n.) A wagon, or other vehicle.
  • (n.) A kind of movable stepladder.
  • (v. t.) To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
  • (v. t.) To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.
  • (v. i.) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Magnetic polyethyleneimine (PEI) microcapsules have been developed for trapping electrophilic intermediates in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
  • (2) tert-Butyl hydroaminoxyl is detected as a degradation product of the hydroxyl adduct from all spin traps.
  • (3) This suggests that the fusion protein traps the SII in nonstimulatory interactions and that antibody 2-7B inhibits SII binding to RNA polymerase II.
  • (4) The mosquitoes coming to bite in bedrooms were monitored with light traps set beside untreated bednets.
  • (5) They alter most immune functions and create a state of immunity deficiency; they damage the tubules which may lead to interstitial fibrosis and increased postglomerular capillary resistance furthering the trapping of macromolecules in the glomeruli; and they probably increase tissue permeability to macromolecules.
  • (6) Direct surgical exposure of the cervical or cavernous internal carotid artery (ICA) was necessary in the remaining 3 patients, who had undergone unsuccessful surgical trapping.
  • (7) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.
  • (8) The estimated forward (k) and backward (1) rate constants are: 2.45 x I05 M-1 s- and 0.23 x 103 s-1, respectively, for k and I for the case when the drug is trapped by both activation and inactivation gates, and 3.58 x 105 M-l s-l and 4.15 x 10-3 S-l for the case when the drug is not trapped.
  • (9) These results suggest that [99mTc]LDL acts as a trapped ligand in vivo and should therefore, be a good tracer for noninvasive quantitative biodistribution studies of LDL.
  • (10) Godiya Usman, an 18-year-old finalist who jumped off the back of the truck, said she feels trapped by survivor's guilt.
  • (11) Relative to the rate of formation of the 3-oxo intermediate trapped with N-acetylcysteine, epoxidation of octene and subsequent hydrolysis to octane-1,2-diol was over 40 times more rapid.
  • (12) Charcoal was added to the homogenization buffer in these experiments to prevent the artifactual activation of PKA by cAMP analogs trapped in the extracellular space.
  • (13) Best fit of the thyroid data was achieved with a model in which the trap is described by two compartments, a fast ("follicular cell") compartment and a slower ("colloid") compartment.
  • (14) The aggregation product is of high molecular weight and composed of monomers which are trapped in a minium of conformational energy different from the one characterizing the native enzyme.
  • (15) A continuous fluorometric assay that utilizes apoflavodoxin as a trapping agent for riboflavin 5'-phosphate (FMN) has been developed for flavokinase (ATP:riboflavin 5'-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.26).
  • (16) Solid-phase adsorbents were compared in their trapping efficiencies for dichloromethane (DCM), ethylene dibromide (EDB), 4-nitroblphenyl (4-NB), 2-nitrofluorene (2-NF), and fluoranthene (FI).
  • (17) Gas trapping and corneal edema were not observed in uncovered corneas or corneas covered with membrane lenses.
  • (18) The cells were trapped on glass fiber filters and incorporated radioactivity was measured.
  • (19) Based on these results we propose that the linearization of the DNA elution dose-response curve observed after chromatin decondensation reflects a reduction in the degree of chromatin compactness in the nuclear complexes that leads to a relatively uniform distribution of the DNA on the filter and reduces trapping of elutable material in the compact nuclear structures otherwise present.
  • (20) At this time the circulating MN population probably contained labeled long-lived lymphocytes that did not enter inflammatory sites (the traps) as readily as the short-lived lymphocytes.