The difference between Gob and Trap

When used as nouns, gob means a lump of soft or sticky material, whereas trap means 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.

When used as verbs, gob means to gather into a lump, whereas trap means to physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.


check bellow for the other definitions of Gob and Trap

  1. Gob as a noun (countable):

    A lump of soft or sticky material.

  2. Gob as a noun (countable, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang):

    The mouth.

    Examples:

    "He′s always stuffing his gob with fast food."

    "Oi, you, shut your gob!"

    "She's got such a gob on her – she′s always gossiping about someone or other."

  3. Gob as a noun (uncountable, slang):

    Saliva or phlegm.

    Examples:

    "He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement."

  4. Gob as a noun (US, military, slang):

    A sailor.

  5. Gob as a noun (uncountable, mining):

    Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.

  6. Gob as a noun (US, regional):

    A whoopee pie.

  1. Gob as a verb:

    To gather into a lump.

  2. Gob as a verb:

    To spit, especially to spit phlegm.

  3. Gob as a verb (mining, intransitive):

    To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine.

  1. Trap as a noun:

    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.

    Examples:

    "I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem."

  2. Trap as a noun:

    A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.

    Examples:

    "Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny."

  3. Trap as a noun:

    A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.

    Examples:

    "Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck."

  4. Trap as a noun:

    A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball

  5. Trap as a noun:

    The game of trapball itself.

  6. Trap as a noun:

    Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.

    Examples:

    "They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap."

  7. Trap as a noun:

    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.

  8. Trap as a noun:

    A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.

  9. Trap as a noun (historical):

    A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.

  10. Trap as a noun (slang):

    A person's mouth.

    Examples:

    "Keep your trap shut''."

  11. Trap as a noun (in the plural):

    Belongings.

  12. Trap as a noun (slang):

    A cubicle (in a public toilet).

    Examples:

    "I've just laid a cable in trap 2 so I'd give it 5 minutes if I were you."

  13. Trap as a noun (sports):

    Trapshooting.

  14. Trap as a noun (computing):

    An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.

  15. Trap as a noun (Australia, slang, historical):

    A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.

  16. Trap as a noun (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular English):

    A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.

  17. Trap as a noun:

    A kind of movable stepladder.

  18. Trap as a noun (slang, informal, chiefly, derogatory, offensive):

    A non-op trans woman or (femininely dressed) transvestite.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Knight"

  19. Trap as a noun (slang, informal, sometimes considered, _, offensive):

    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.

  20. Trap as a noun (music, uncountable):

    A fusion genre of hip-hop and electronic music.

  1. Trap as a verb (transitive):

    To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.

    Examples:

    "to trap foxes"

  2. Trap as a verb (transitive):

    To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.

  3. Trap as a verb (transitive):

    To provide with a trap.

    Examples:

    "to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe"

  4. Trap as a verb (intransitive):

    To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game

    Examples:

    "trap for beaver"

  5. Trap as a verb (intransitive):

    To leave suddenly, to flee.

  6. Trap as a verb (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular English, intransitive):

    To sell narcotics, especially in a public area.

  7. Trap as a verb (computing, intransitive):

    To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.

  1. Trap as a noun:

    A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.

  1. Trap as a verb:

    To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).

  1. Trap as a noun (slang, bodybuilding):

    The trapezius muscle.

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